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I don't know that the number of times a track is started would have any perceptible impact on an SSD, especially given the small size of the write (much smaller
by LanternLight83 4y ago
I don't know that the number of times a track is started would have any perceptible impact on an SSD, especially given the small size of the write (much smaller then, eg., a game save). I do think it would be cute to have an old rip of my favorite ambient YouTube mix that has accumulated hundreds of plays, even if that count isn't synced between devices (it'd accumulate them on whichever device I actually played it off of), and that that sort of passive, local scrobbing is worth at least as much enjoyment as a small game save.
- philjohn 4y agoI suppose it depends - although it's pretty much the worst case for write amplification, 1-4 bytes leading to a 4k block erase and reprogram.
- codeflo 4y agoTrue, but if you’re just listening and not for some reason updating your whole library, we’re talking about one block write every three minutes or so. That’s negligible compared to everything else the system is doing.