And just how, exactly, are these different pieces of software supposed to affect the layout of the admittedly bit-identical files on disc?
Most software uses pretty standard io library calls to write the stuff out. And even then, where it gets put on disc is going to depend heavily on: how full the disc is. whether there is a raid system. what the filesystem is. what other software is using the io subsystem at the moment. In point of fact, _which software was used first_ will have vastly more influence over how the resulting files are laid out on disc that which software is used. Also, one could defragment afterwards, and again, this would have an _actual_ effect, rather than an imagined one. Claiming that the software writing out the _admittedly bit-identical files_ is somehow making some of them sound better without controlling for any of this (and this is just what I thought of off the top of my head) bespeaks of a profound lack of understanding of how computers actually work, combined with a level of hubris that is really offputting. This whole thing is bullshit of the first order, and I'm not at all sorry about being a bit impolite about it. -- totoro sb3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 + rel storm 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
