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Awesome Donkey:
I personally find memory playback to be a hindrance when playing large files, versus smaller compressed FLAC files so I mainly keep the feature off.

kr4:

--- Quote from: Dr.Ames on April 30, 2023, 05:47:19 am ---I would have liked to ask one additional question. Does it make sense to load music files into RAM to play them from there, especially because I play some very large DSD albums. Some tracks have a maximum size of 8.8 GB (Bruckner 9th Symphony - DSD512).

My music library is not on an SSD and therefore it might make sense? Would the decrypted single track setting make sense then?

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I have many similarly large tracks, keep my files on a NAS and, after much experimentation, have settled on not using memory playback.  MC manages the buffering without issues.

eve:

--- Quote from: Dr.Ames on April 29, 2023, 01:24:05 pm ---Hello all,

just installed the latest version under Windows 11 and selected my external USB connected DAC "Project S2" as default via the ASIO interface. I have DSD bitstreaming enabled and DSD files are played as such without any problems.

Now to my question, which has also been addressed in the past here in the forum. Is it still true for you that it makes no sense from a sonic point of view to upsample PCM files to DSD x8? My AMD 12 core processor is only used to 2% capacity even then - so that wouldn't be a problem.

many thanks and Greetings from Germany

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*In Theory* Yeah, depending on what D/A you have, specifically which chip it utilizes and how things are implemented. Up sampling to DSD at the source can be arguably beneficial. See internally, in D/A chips like ESS's high end offerings even PCM streams technically get converted to multibit SD. If you feed them the signal they end up converting to, in theory we can tailor how that process happens at the source rather than relying on the D/A. In practice? No. There's no major difference. We're talking about things that are probably not audible, or at the very least impactful.

Dr.Ames:
Thanks for all your replies, in fact I am pleasantly surprised how smoothly DSD playback works with JRiver. With Foobar, which I still appreciate very much, I had repeatedly dropouts during playback, which could only be solved by quitting the software and deleting the temp files. So far, JRiver runs absolutely error-free here.

But some small things really drive me crazy here, how do I get JRiver, for example, which are in the same directory as the music files "cover.jpg" files to display as a cover without re-tagging.  ;)

JimH:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Cover_Art

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