Hi All - I sent this to Jim first of all - sorry.
Can anyone help with the following please
I am in receipt of the JRiver ID which I did get working for a while but only after some struggle with the GUI . . I understand this is expected as it is an early release.
The setup is a Synology NAS box DS411 running DSM5 with the Media server installed to provide the DLNA server.
I’m using the ID as a renderer outputting by USB to a Benchmark USB DAC1.
In the early stages of setup I could not find the correct setup for the USB output format. I kept getting :
Playback Problem
Details
Playback could not be started on the “ALSA” using the format ’44.1Khz 2ch’
The output format may not be supported by your hardware. You can use DSP Studio to change the output to a compatible format.
Also make sure that your system has a valid sound playback device and that it is properly configured in the playback options.
I have been able to view my music library as established on the Synology DS411 (as a DNLA service) also at one point I was able to play music, the last change I made was to tick a box under FLAC options that said ‘decode through errors’ or similar. However, when I reversed this setting I could still listen to music (at good quality) My existing JRemote on an IPAD also connected to the ID and I could control music playback etc.
Later in the evening after much listening testing it all stopped working and when I went back to the GUI mode (I had rebooted in Text – Headless but left the HDMI monitor connected) the above error was back after trying to play through the GUI as I had before.
So the question really is how do I setup the Benchmark USB DAC1 to avoid the error and get the system working (and staying working) again. I found a JRiver article purporting to show how to convert the ID output for use with my DAC but it was very unspecific and the instructions did not related to the ID – I think it was from an article for the Windows MC.
One other annoyance – the ID doesn’t seam to scale its GUI to the screen size correctly so when I maximise a window I loose much of the window over the margin of the screen, including access to crucial control areas. When will the GUI be a little more ‘less flakey’ to use a term I have seen posted ;-)
Happy to be involved with the continued dev of this but I do need to be able to reliably play music whilst working on the other bits.
Hope you can help
Regards
Trevor McCarthy-White