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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 26 for Windows => Topic started by: down4jazz on February 02, 2020, 02:08:45 pm
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Win 10 JRM 26
JRM was not utilizing WDM. In playback device, it showed my Ayre DAC. I removed wmd from features closed/opened re-selected wmd closed/opened and restarted w10. I then had the ability to select jriver 25 as the playback device. This worked well for JRM, but now, no sound from Spotify. If I go back and select Speaker (Ayre interface), Spotify work straight away. In JRM when I try to adjust the volume level, the slider has no effect, so I assume that it’s playing through the WDM driver. In Spotify, the volume slider does allow for level adjustment, so I assume that WDM is not in control. Either way, my DAC is working as it’s showing the correct playback I’m a bit new to W10 and recently purchased this laptop. My previous system was win 7 and JRM 24 and it seemed that wmd controlled all the sound, bypassing windows. I’m prob missing something simple, but what?
Thanks
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Run MC. Select the Ayre DAC as the output device.
In Windows 10, set the Default Audio Device to the WDM Driver (JRiver Media Center xx).
Start Spotify. Play to the Default Audio Device, or the WDM Driver.
Audio will then play from Spotify through MC with all DSP, Volume control, etc. in MC. Best to not use Spotify as volume control, but that is up to you.
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/WDM_Driver
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I’ve done these things.
JRM Ayre interface (wasapi)
Windows output device: JRiver 25 master volume 100
Still, JRM plays great, but no sound from Spotify. If I revert back to Ayre as my windows playback device, both JRM and Spotify play, but I don’t believe wdm is in control. How would I know?
I don’t see JRM or WDM in startup or processes. Should I?
I do see it listed and checked in features (I removed restarted and re-selected)
Wish I was more natural at this stuff...
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Well, MC still needs to be running when you play music in Spotify. Then the audio will be passed like this:
Spotify > WDM Driver > Media Center > Ayre DAC.
Once you have started playback in Spotify, you can look at the MC Audio Path to see that MC is playing the tracks. Read https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Audio_Path
If you don't want to start MC manually before starting Spotify, and if you set the WDM Driver to the Default Audio Device all the time, have MC start with Windows every time.
Go to "Options > Startup > Windows Startup > Run on Windows startup" and set that to "Media Center and Media Server".
You may also want to tick "Options > General > Interface > Minimise to System Tray", so that if you minimise MC it isn't sitting there on the Taskbar.
See how you go with that. Make the changes, restart Windows, then start Spotify and play something.
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Seems to be working. Haven’t tried the audio path. Will play more this weekend. Thank you for the insight!
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Had the same issue with Spotify & NuPrime uDSD even though I saved my profiles. Somehow MC26 would revert DSP output back to 5.1 channels from 2.0 as I saved it...not sure if its after program updates but nonetheless, try changing channels in DSP Studio>Output Format
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Output_Format
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Somehow MC26 would revert DSP output back to 5.1 channels from 2.0 as I saved it...not sure if its after program updates but nonetheless, try changing channels in DSP Studio>Output Format
MC will only change Output Format if you tell it to, or if you have told it to do it automatically.
Set "Options > Audio > Advanced > Auto configure output settings on playback error" to Ask, or No.
Had the same issue with Spotify & NuPrime uDSD even though I saved my profiles.
What do you mean by Profiles?
Do you mean your Audio configuration in Zones?
It actually sounds like your issue was very different, in that it wasn't because the WDM wasn't working, but because your NuPrime uDSD couldn't play the format you had MC sending to it. Hence, no output. Then you changed MC to automatically change the output, so you then got audio out, but MC magically changed the Output Format... because you told it to.