adisib
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Can you checksum the before and after files so see if there is any actual change?
Did you mis-read what it is supposed to do? The checksum will not change because it isn't changing the file. It basically places the data of the file to contiguous memory on the hard-drive to improve CPU caching. If the operating system starts moving memory around, the memory of the file might get moved around, depending on the operating-system/file-system (NTFS that Windows uses gets defragmented, things like ext4 used by Linux does not get defragmented and much more slowly fragmented), thus "losing the effect". Defragmenting your hard-drive isn't necessarily the same thing I believe, though I'm hardly an expert on file-systems.
The same effect could be accomplished just by doing things like loading a file into RAM before playing, which players like Foobar can do. So this is useless to use, even if it did do something, which it doesn't. If you are using a file-system that shouldn't be defragmented, then this wont even do what it is supposed to, and could actually slowly contribute to a more fragmented hard-drive and shorter SSD life.