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SwainDtV

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  1. Hi all, I'm new here and registered to give some information about my experience. I recently bought a Mac mini 8GB and Amarra. In release 2.4.1 I am very pleased with gapless playback. However I also noticed the low memory warming a couple of times. The warning only occurred after pausing during playback. Amarra first asks me the bring the Amarra window back to front and then it warns me with a low memory message. After upgrading to 2.4.1 and deleting preferences I started with preload 4 tracks and 512MB memory. This didn't work out well with live albums, because after every 4 tracks there was a pause. Then I started with preload Album and 2GB memory. This works almost perfect. I only noticed a few glitches. After playing 2 albums music started stuttering and generating weird noises. Probably because of low memory. I cannot imagine why. Even with 5-6GB of inactive memory I should be able to load individual CD albums indefinitely. The capacity of a CD is 800MB or less. The other glitch a noticed was that the last second of the last song from Fiona Apple's latest album "The Idler ..." was cut off. iTunes played the track correct. I ripped the last track again and added 2 seconds at the end with Audacity. Problem solved. I believe that once a preload is executed switching cache mode on and off has no effect. For instance if I start with cache mode off the album is preloaded but it is not in cache. During playback I can see in System Monitor there is still a constant disk read activity. Disk read continues after switching to cache mode. It's after selecting/preloading another album disk read stops. If I set Amarra preferences to preloading Album and 4GB the Album is preloaded but not cached. The amount of memory allocated by Amarra stays the nearly the same. The disk read activity confirms the music is not played from cache despite the yellow highlight on the cache button.
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