Question about winamp, mp3's, and harddrives

[KBrinks]

when you are listening to one mp3's.. does it access the hard drive once you select the song.. then load it... or does it access the harddrive constantly while playing the song..

sometimes when my computer locks (totally freezes) winamp will still play in the background...

 

[woodly6]

I think it accesses the Hard Drive directly because you cannot change the name of the file, move, or modify the file while it is playing in winamp.


Maybe I am way off base.

 

[polypterus]

I'm pretty sure it loads it into memory. I listen to MP3's on CD-R's sometimes and the only time it reads from the CD is at the beginning of the song.

dc

 

[Phunktion]

Loads it into memory and if your sound card sucks it'll keep accessing it I'm pretty sure..