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If you look a couple posts down, i did get flac to playback. It took some small changes to the config file forcing the drives to stay spinning at all times.


Instead of having the drives spin all the time would it be possible to have a third party app (HiJack for example) monitor the music application buffer and spin up the drives just before the music app needs them? I assume the problem is something like this: the music app waits till the buffer get down to x% and then refills it, but with flac using up the buffer so much faster it gets exhausted before the drives can spin up and refill the buffer. If x were say 5%, if something spun up the drives at say 7%, by the time the music app tried to read from the drives to refill the buffer, the drives would already be spinning and yet could still be spun down as much as possible.