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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 27 for Mac => Topic started by: dfbishop on March 17, 2021, 12:16:13 pm
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After many weeks of excellent playback, JRiver MediaCenter 27 for Mac now stops feeding sound to output after exactly 2 min of play. I tried updating to the latest version (27.0.66) but no joy. I am using Mac OS 10.13.6, High Sierra. Nothing unusual seems to be happening when running Activity Monitor - Media Center is the top activity and usually Windowserve after that. It does not matter which media file I am playing. Most unusual, and annoying. I have to double click to stop and then it plays back OK from the beginning until 2 min - no sound, but MC is still active and the spectrum display bouncing and the progress bar progressing. I was feeding audio output to core audio under tools options and tried feeding it directly to my USB Dragonfly DAC that drives my Hi Fi, but same problem. I searched around on the forum, and saw one other 2 min stop under different conditions and setup, but no resolution. Any ideas?
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Another Dragonfly problem and solution:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,128851.msg894895.html#msg894895
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(Solved) I tried without the Dragonfly and had the same problem. But... later today it happened again, two minutes into a Skype call! Some more searching on Apple forums suggested that it could be core audio corruption that could be fixed by the terminal command sudo killall coreaudiod
I just did a shutdown, which does the same thing, as well as running fsck, the UNIX cleanup command. All was well after that for a half our of audio play through MC and a subsequent 1 hr Zoom meeting.
Weird problem, who knows what triggered it, but the lesson here is always try a restart or preferably shutdown first!
Cheers.