This amazes me that they can patent this. Because the concept is not new, at least as far as I can tell. Just like when you are watching streaming video or audio off the net, which is coming from an HD somewhere, it buffers first so that while the movie is playing, it has enough extra time loaded to account for hangups and latency (well supposed to :)). Even buffers on HD controllers and stuff are there to help against the latency. Hehe, what if you wrote a separate library for loading any type of file where you supply a list of names and then it performs that functionality.
Although I have to agree, being that I just bought a gig of ram for about 60 bucks, I would rather read all the samples into memory once and not have all that extra beating going on with the HD. Rick
