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Unlikely to happen. I sincerely doubt most headphones would have the memory for that buffer. Sure, it's only a megabyte or two of ram, but your headphones would
by solraph 3y ago
Unlikely to happen. I sincerely doubt most headphones would have the memory for that buffer. Sure, it's only a megabyte or two of ram, but your headphones would have to spend valuable battery on keeping that ram active.
From my foray into audio app (quite a while ago, I admit), I imagine application support would be tricky as well.
- vlovich123 3y agoYeah, memory on these devices tends to be pretty tight. The other challenge with buffering ahead so much is that if you do skip, you’ve basically used your energy budget for 0 value. You’d have to make the argument that there’s net savings, but that would only materialize with predictions that are right enough that the savings outweigh the times you lose (e.g. a simplest heuristic would be if the audio stream has been live for 5 seconds without skipping, send the available buffer at faster than realtime).
- spockz 3y agoIIRC, Spotify applies a similar strategy also for deciding which music to already fetch from the servers when listening to a playlist to minimise the gap between pressing next song and actual playback. It seems like it should be exactly the same algorithm for sending it to the headset, with the exception of other sounds like notifications/calls.
- londons_explore 3y agoWell they can advertise how much memory they have... RAM uses less power than keeping a radio alive, so I suspect aggressive buffering is a net energy saver.
- HPsquared 3y agoReminds me of the old portable CD players that would advertise the capacity of their anti-skip buffers.
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- RobotToaster 3y agoThere are inexpensive headphones with the entire MP3 player built in, so I doubt a little RAM would make much difference.
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