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RE: Buffer update

Hi Igorli, you are right, the Mytek requires special USB drivers (available here: http://github.com/lintweaker/mytekusb2 ) - but I already installed them (before, the Mytek did not work at all). And you are also right about 'nice': I high 'nice' value leads to a low priority, thus, I needed to 'renice -20 -p mpdpid' but unfortunately this did not solve the problem. I can see the new priority (in 'top') but the dropouts are still there …

What I do not understand is that the audio_buffer_size parameter (in mpd.conf) seems to have no effect: I set buffer_before_play to "100%' and tried 409600 (400 MB, my average DSF/DFF file size), half this value, the double size etc. for audio_buffer_size but my MPD (in 'top') always looks like this:
2357 user 0 -20 89888 13244 2772 S 1.7 2.8 0:03.07 mpd

only 2.7% memory usage on my laptop with 500 MB RAM.
Can anybody explain this?
What do I need to change to reserve as many memory as possible?

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