Any way to lower the size of FLAC AudioFormatReader's reservoir buffer?

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Hi JUCErs,

In my case I have 3520 sample files and for each and every one of them I have an AudioFormatReader in memory, at all time.

I noticed they take quite a lot of space (just the readers) - I think there is a reservoir buffer of 8096 (*2 channels) in each reader. Having that for all 3520 files, it totals in ~217MB just for the readers.

Reading from disk doesn’t happen on the audio thread (worker threads use the audioFormatReaders and write in a lock-free fifo) and I guess I could use a pool of readers and reset them with the current file location (is this doable?), but I guess the reservoir is delivering samples without querying the disk when it’s full, so I’m afraid this may not be optimal for this specific format?

Any help is much appreciated.

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If you have that many files, then just using the simple approach of keeping a permanent reader per file isn’t going to scale!

Don’t know what’s best for your app, but you’ll need to build some kind of smarter system that works on that scale.