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When using HiMD - PCM is the antiskip buffer compressed?

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Sparky191

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In the old days, CD players use to compress PCM into ADPCM when using skip protection to allow for more audio to be stored on (what at the time were) expensive memory chips. Nowadays, RAM is so cheap that I doubt any Hi-MD player has less than a 16Mbit buffer, which itself would store about 12 seconds of 16-bit PCM. I noticed that when using PCM, the recorder would spin up 3 or 4 times per minute, which would support a 16Mbit buffer.

In contrast, HDD players usually have 32 to 64 megabytes of RAM, which is easily enough to cache a handful of songs (or 3-6 minutes of PCM) at once.

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