This was an idea of @frodr. After several testings I came to the following script which: Caclulates how many Video files (small parts of them) will fit into 50% of the free RAM (amount can be changed) Obtains the X recent Movies / Episodes (depending on the used path) Preloads 60MB of the Video file leader and 1MB of the ending into the RAM Preloads subtitle files that belong to the preloaded Video file   Now, if your disks are sleeping and you start a Mo