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Audio dropouts using USB HDD
PJ03029174:
Hi
I've just downloaded a trial of 23.0.103 and was hoping someone can help with some idea's.
At the moment, I'm experiencing occasional dropouts when playing FLAC audio. It's not very often, maybe once in 5 songs.
I'm using a Mac Mini (2014) running Yosemite 10.5 (needed due to drivers for Chord Qute EX USB DAC)
If I run the files from the internal HDD the dropouts stop. I'm using the Mac mini solely as a music player so don't think its a hardware issue and hopefully software.
Im using the DAC in Exclusive mode and enabled Integer mode, I've tried increasing the software buffer (to 250ms) and tried the Hardware buffer to Maximum.
Does anyone have any idea's I could try? Maybe an older version?
Thanks in advance
DJLegba:
Sounds like the hard drive is going to sleep. Try disabling sleep mode, or, if you don't want to go that far, change it to something like one hour.
RD James:
Try enabling Memory Playback. I recommend the "Load full file (not decoded) into memory" option.
That way the disk is only accessed at the start of a track, and not during.
DJLegba:
--- Quote from: RD James on March 18, 2018, 06:07:20 pm ---Try enabling Memory Playback. I recommend the "Load full file (not decoded) into memory" option.
That way the disk is only accessed at the start of a track, and not during.
--- End quote ---
Not a great option for classical music, as this can cause gaps between tracks.
RD James:
--- Quote from: DJLegba on March 18, 2018, 09:03:07 pm ---Not a great option for classical music, as this can cause gaps between tracks.
--- End quote ---
There's not much which can be done about it unless JRiver add the ability for Memory Playback to queue up multiple tracks in advance.
I'd rather have gaps between tracks than interruptions in the middle of a track, but ideally neither would be happening.
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