I'm curious why the lack of response on this?
After my last post, I found I still had this same problem:
it seems that for whatever reason some high rez songs are consistently skipped while others play with no problem. If one song from an album plays, every song will play ok. If one song from album won't play, then every song from that album won't play. This is repeatable even after system reboots. This also is happening across all output modes I've tried; native ASIO Thesycon driver, Kernel Streaming and WASAPI. The songs that won't play are also consistent across all output modes. I tried playing songs that won't play on a separate Windows pc using Foobar and all songs play fine in the correct bit depth and sample rate. I have JRiver installed on one computer that acts as server and contains all my music files. I have JRiver also installed on my music player computer. Both installations are the latest, 18.0.201. I rebooted the server computer and exact same songs will still not play.
So even with 18.01.171, I have this issue. What I did to get around it was set my output mode to be a fixed 44.1 kHz for all sample rates. This allowed playing any and all files consistently. Since then I've upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, clean install. I reinstalled 18.01.171 with my saved registry settings as advised in another thread for transferring JRiver settings to a new computer and it worked great. I instantly had my exact same configuration.
About a week later I upgraded to Windows Server 2012 Standard, again a clean install. I followed the same process for transferring my JRiver settings and again it worked perfectly. This was also with 18.01.171. At this point I had forgotten about the original problems described in this post, likely because of the distraction of installing two new operating systems and getting my computer re-configured. I updated all my drivers and checked for JRiver update and downloaded and installed the most recent version on my new Windows Server 2012 computer as well as the computer I use for main audio file storage. Up to this point, both had been running 18.01.171. Now both were running the same latest release version.
Lo and behold, I started having problem with certain hi rez tracks being skipped over in my random playlist. I tried a few things, play files from memory option, changed output to play original sample rate, all fixed at 96 kHz and nothing worked. Then I remembered I upgraded JRiver. I re-installed 18.01.171 and instantly all files played, with fixed sample rate of 44.1 kHz.
I'm far from a computer illiterate or newbie. At this point, in my mind there's no doubt there's an issue with some change that's been made internally to how JRiver functions, between version 18.01.171 and the more current releases. One change I do know was the removal of the option to manually select 24 bit dithering. I'm not saying that's the problem, just pointing out that is one feature that's in the working version and not in the non-working version. This identical problem has occurred across 3 different Windows operating systems. We can say it's an issue with my computer. But if that's the case, why did these files play fine for so long and then after updating at some point to a new version of JRiver, they no longer played?
Hopefully someone can look into this further and come up with some kind of resolution. In one of my posts I stated I had created a log file when this happened but I received no response. By the way, I don't have JPlay installed.
