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Why exclusive mode required for WASAPI to play hi-rez content?

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blgentry:
If I remember right, the story is something like this:

To play multiple different sample rates, MC needs to change the sample rate setting on the WASAPI driver for your DAC.  But, Windows uses your DAC for sound output also, and is normally accessing it at 44.1kHz.  So, MC isn't able to change the sample rate and thus can't play other sample rates.  If you check exclusive mode, then MC has exclusive access to the DAC and doesn't have to worry about Windows locking the sample rate.

Jim is suggesting that you downsample everything to 44.1kHz so you can *not* use exclusive mode, and still have windows talk to your DAC for system sounds and sounds from other apps.

Brian.

dtc:
A long shot - in Windows setup for sound (from Control Panel) select the device and choose Advanced. Make sure the 2 Exclusive options are checked.

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