I don't know, plus I was just tipsy when I wrote that and now I am half-drunk. Anyhow exclude me and you.
It'd be as funny as unfair to ban @No Avenger but while you're at it...
And the GOAT I guess it'd be our captain @SAiNT so... good luck with that!

Edited: in any case, do it with style and still wish them merry christmas

 

The author claims that it rearranges the data in a file in order to perfectly suit the CPU multimedia instructions set, so it is about data sequencing, and then the file is written normally.

 

Oh, that sounds very interesting. I think I get the idea. This could improve the speed of the playing engine but not the quality.

If this speed enhancement allows you to use a better crazy-CPU-hungry quality interpolator preset or similar, that's another thing

 

LSD meets sound? What's one wrong letter amongst friends?

Sounds like an idea.

 

Thats technically total bullshit. This had worked with defragmenting normal HDDs by rearranging the sectors and blocks where a file was stored but at SSD's the method of storing files is totally different. Thats also the reason why you never should defragment a SSD 'caus this could destroy the filesystem at your SSD.
In contrast to classic hard disks, SSDs manage completely without mechanical parts. So there is neither a rotating disk nor a read head that has to be moved back and forth. Instead, the data on solid state disks is stored on a flash memory. When writing and reading, the controller of the SSD addresses the corresponding memory blocks directly and without electromechanical parts. Put simply, this is the reason why SSDs work so much faster than HDDs. Even more relevant for us: The individual memory cells of SSDs are basically always reached at the same speed. So when reading and writing data on the SSD, it makes no difference whether the data blocks are in a row or in a spread pattern.
There is simply no difference between reading or writing block 1 or block 234252667889 because there is no physical distance between the blocks.


Just imagine you have 1 billion buckets and in each bucket is a data block. If you now have to collect a file from 100 blocks, you have to run to 100 buckets, all of which can be anywhere. Of course, that takes a long time. That's how it was with a normal HDD. That's why, by defragmenting the hard disk, the buckets of blocks that belong together have been rearranged. With an SSD, there is 1 bucket containing 1 billion blocks. So you only have to go to one bucket and take out the blocks that belong to the required file. Since a hard disk also always has an allocation table, the system does not have to search, but knows where the required blocks are.

 

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Precisely. Exactly. Well put, Sir.

 

Well, you're right. But this is not what that software is about. Not even speed as I thought. It's all about reducing jitter in the playing (digital to analog process).

It's a process that consider crazily low-level things like CPU cache, internal clocks, and SIMD instructions. Used with a software player that is completely over-the-top sophisticated especially when it comes to interpolation. So it's only for extreme-hardcore-audiophiles. It's about using many GB of RAM and CPU power only to reproduce an audio file.

I'm not even sure that it works, all I'm saying is that it could make sense. Even the developer says it's very hard to explain how it works. Doesn't help he doesn't speak English and uses an online translator.
Man, I'm exhausted, hangover is no good for reading that crazy hard stuff...

 

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when the developer cant explain to humans whats all about, how have i to think he is able to tell the machine what to do? thats what programming is, all in all.
besides, every cpu is different, caches, internal clock rates... even the simd instructions are different in execution time among different cpus. but you name it, audiophiles...

 

This stuff is designed for Intel CPUs, so like I said, is above my head if it works but it could make sense.

But I agree basically with you. From the start it's clear this is not only for audiophiles but for the ones who make a hobby of trying to push the limits of quality. Something for a very small minority and I highly doubt even a dog ear could notice the improvement.