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In Reply to: Re: Play it? posted by kls on February 25, 2007 at 01:45:02:
There is no way to stop HD activity/streaming because your OS is doing it all the time on its own. If you don't believe me, take a look at your HD activity light even when no music is playing and no programs are running.And now begins a discussion about computer music playback optimization #3231: turn off virtual memory. Oh how glorious my music now sounds! New details are there that were never there before with the evil virtual memory!
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Well, it was only a matter of time before Agent Scully showed up and started demanding scientific proof.FYI - You shouldn't make blanket statements like "There is no way to stop HD activity..." -- that's not true.
On my system, after I've booted up and started playing music from my RamDisk, there is absolutely no activity light from my internal HD coming on. For hours. Of course, I have a really streamlined configuration. And I only have Windows and foobar installed - nothing else. If you press CTRL-ALT-DEL (in Windows XP) and bring up the Task Manager and then click on the Processes tab - how many processes do you have running? I only have 17.
17 isn't bad. I think I'm around 24, but some of those are there for a good reason and definitely aren't causing HD activity (e.g. SpeedFan).So you copy hours worth of music to a RAM Disk and then walk away from your computer and let it play while you do something else so as not to cause HD activity? Why are you using a computer for audio playback?!?
***Why are you using a computer for audio playback?!?***Uhh...you do know you're in the Computer Audio Asylum don't you?
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