My music player does not play music immediately when I hit the “play” button but rather says it is “buffering.” What is “buffering?
Your audio player is actually collecting a few seconds of audio before it starts to play so that it can provide uninterrupted music. The buffer, an area of memory that a software (or hardware) program uses to provide an interruption free, constant flow of data, “fuses together” information so that it seems uninterrupted. Thus, if a brief interruption (“hiccup”) occurs in your Internet connection, the buffer compensates for it so you won’t notice the interruption.
