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Suddenly unable to play .m4a and .ape (Solved)
bob:
--- Quote from: LilyAarseth on February 15, 2021, 01:33:58 pm ---This is a relief at least.
I recently got a NAD M12 Preamp/DAC and it has Asynchronous USB, would that have anything to do with it? It worked for nearly a week before these issues started happening though so I didn't think of that. I turned off integer mode and exclusive a while back since MC kept glitching out "coreaudiod" so I had to forcefully restart the process in activity monitor and restart MC to get audio to work again. like 1/5 times where MC set a sample rate not 44.1 this happened so I got fed up with it and just set to downsample everything to 44.1 and disabling integer and exclusive. I didn't report it because I wasn't sure if this was a MC specific issue or just premature drivers on apple's side acting out. I don't know, might be worth mentioning maybe.
Software buffer is set to 100ms and hardware is set to hardware default. Firewall was actually turned off for some reason, turned it on again and same thing.
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Maybe set MC's DSP studio to resample everything to 192k?
Is anything else using the DAC?
LilyAarseth:
--- Quote from: bob on February 15, 2021, 01:39:17 pm ---Maybe set MC's DSP studio to resample everything to 192k?
Is anything else using the DAC?
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Tried to resample and it didn't work sadly. Not that I know of aside from MacOS itself, I use it for system and alert sounds.
Also...
I just installed MC26 in desperation and everything is working. User settings and things didn't transfer from MC27 so it was a clean slate, very important info here. It HAS to be a user setting or cache that is sabotaging. Asking again, is there no way to completely wipe an MC install for user settings and cache?
bob:
--- Quote from: LilyAarseth on February 15, 2021, 01:49:49 pm ---Tried to resample and it didn't work sadly. Not that I know of aside from MacOS itself, I use it for system and alert sounds.
Also...
I just installed MC26 in desperation and everything is working. User settings and things didn't transfer from MC27 so it was a clean slate, very important info here. It HAS to be a user setting or cache that is sabotaging. Asking again, is there no way to completely wipe an MC install for user settings and cache?
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Yes. Normally the users ~/Library doesn't show. You can change that but alternately you can delete it from the command line. Pull up a terminal and do:
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/J\ River
pwd
to verify that's exactly where you are, then
rm -rf Media\ Center\ 27
That will wipe all of the user data, settings, etc.
You might try doing a library backup first (that goes into Documents...)
Then restore the library after the wipe (don't import the settings in this case).
LilyAarseth:
I just fixed it now and I feel like the biggest troll on the forum and I am so sorry I made you spend so much time with this.
When all this started 11 days ago I was fiddling around setting up media server to be able to cast to MC since AirPlay directly to my Network Player is super unstable. And during that process I must have ticked or unticked some boxes inside Media Network and after figuring out I didn't need it I unticked the feature in General. I re-enabled it to test conversion and left it.
Back then I had set up a DLNA server that I just deleted just now in a last attempt at backtracking and it somehow it works again. I am so confused to what actually did it but I ticked the "play local file if" and "show playback zones" that was unticked from before and deleted a custom DLNA server I had made nearly 2 weeks ago that wasn't even enabled and somehow it works again. I can't reproduce it.
Again I am so sorry for all of this and I am super grateful for your patience and time put into this. I'd buy you a dinner.
bob:
--- Quote from: LilyAarseth on February 15, 2021, 02:05:04 pm ---I just fixed it now and I feel like the biggest troll on the forum and I am so sorry I made you spend so much time with this.
When all this started 11 days ago I was fiddling around setting up media server to be able to cast to MC since AirPlay directly to my Network Player is super unstable. And during that process I must have ticked or unticked some boxes inside Media Network and after figuring out I didn't need it I unticked the feature in General. I re-enabled it to test conversion and left it.
Back then I had set up a DLNA server that I just deleted just now in a last attempt at backtracking and it somehow it works again. I am so confused to what actually did it but I ticked the "play local file if" and "show playback zones" that was unticked from before and deleted a custom DLNA server I had made nearly 2 weeks ago that wasn't even enabled and somehow it works again. I can't reproduce it.
Again I am so sorry for all of this and I am super grateful for your patience and time put into this. I'd buy you a dinner.
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Well it's good to hear you got it going.
I think the "play local file if" is the most likely candidate for your issue. Mines checked and works fine. I'd probably need to understand your entire setup better to figure out why that'd make any difference in your case.
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