Mike mentioned in his posting that announced the 9 release that they were returning to the older caching method.

The closest thing I can think of to this is I said we were release debug builds of the player in the developer release. This does mean that less space is devoted to caching so the disk will spin up more often.

The new intelligent spindown feature assumes that if you've caused a spinup (by skipping track or selecting a new playlist) then you are likely to do the same thing again. If you want to see it spin down then leave the player playing the same playlist without skipping tracks for a few minutes.



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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)