Snakeoil Tweaks

Bits are bits - and your computer playback will always be perfect. Right?

Do not answer that - the above is a rhetorical question.

No matter how good your computers are - once in a while you may find your computer is running fine one minute but suddenly crash in the next.

Usually I refrain from blogging computing technical stuffs on Snakeoil. This article will be a rare exception, today I would like to talk about bit rot. This is something you guys should aware of (but not alarmed).

Many tweaks in my audiophile journey are discovered by accident. In this blog we will talk about one of the best kept hifi secrets - phase.

So what is native playback? In essence it means the digital music files are played back in:

The Snakeoil tab contains several obscure configuration options, one of them would be the Change Priority. This control is used to redefine how CPU(s) juggle running processes, an example of how to set this up is shown here: