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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 24 for Windows => Topic started by: PeterTuffin on April 11, 2020, 06:55:35 am
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I have read the thread on HDTracks - is it worth it? It is very interesting. I have acquired quite a lot of music from HDTracks, not so much for the ultra-high definition, but so that I can get CD quality downloads and not MP3. It's the download that I'm after. Mainly because I didn't want to wait for the delivery of CDs (here near the end of the world in Cape Town, South Africa).
The problem is that, when I run JRiver MC on a random selection, which is most of the time, just about whenever MC changes from a ripped CD item to something from HDTracks - i.e. ultra high definition - then the sound is badly distorted. The only thing that fixes it is a re-boot. I can move to a ripped CD item - that will play without distortion - but moving back to the HD item just plays with distortion again. Closing MC and re-opening does not get rid of the distortion.
My question is - what is the re-boot resetting that restarting MC is not? Is there a setting somewhere that I can apply?
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It's probably your DAC.
When it happens, try power cycling your DAC.
In MC, you can re-sample everything to the same value in DSP Studio > Output Format.
or in MC, you can try the Audio setting called Play Silence at Startup.
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Definitely not my DAC - built with my own hands - from AudioNote kits.
But I did go into the DSP studio and changed the output sample rate to 44,100 Hz. I seem to think it was like that already, but I changed it to something else and then back again. Since then I have had no more corruption / distortion.
Thanks for the tip.