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Title: JRiver & Spotify on Netbook
Post by: Jason36 on February 11, 2012, 05:44:23 pm

Hi guys,

I am encountering a problem and wondering if there is an easy way round it.

I have JRiver setup to output via ASIO (using ASIO4ALL) on my XP based Netbook. However tonight I have noticed that when I try and play music via Spotify it won't play via my uDAC2 and headphones (it outputs via the netbook speakers)....if I go into the sounds section of control panel and change the device to UDAC2 it works, but if I then flick back to JRiver it won't play anything, unless I go back into control panel and change the device from uDAC to the Realtek driver.

Is there an easy way round this or do I have to keep changing the sound device manually every time I want to switch between JRiver and Spotify??

Title: Re: JRiver & Spotify on Netbook
Post by: Trumpetguy on February 12, 2012, 03:01:42 am

ASIO locks to the first application using it. If you use ASIO for both Spotify and JRiver, only one of them can be running.

EDIT: I have tried the same thing, with JRiver connected via ASIO to my htpc DAC, and trying to play youtube videos via (what I presume is) Direct Sound. Same thing. ASIO shuts out all other audio. I guess that is one of the main features anyway.

Title: Re: JRiver & Spotify on Netbook
Post by: Jason36 on February 12, 2012, 05:30:45 am

I thought that might be the case.

So if I don't want to faff around switching between outputs in control panel am I better of just setting the options to Direct Sound under JRiver?

I use WASAPI on my laptop in the office (windows 7) with the uDAC2 and this switches between FOOBAR, iTunes and Spotify with no problems.

So is this a JRiver thing or a Windows XP thing?

Title: Re: JRiver & Spotify on Netbook
Post by: Trumpetguy on February 12, 2012, 08:41:05 am

Quote from: Jason36 on February 12, 2012, 05:30:45 am

I thought that might be the case.

So if I don't want to faff around switching between outputs in control panel am I better of just setting the options to Direct Sound under JRiver?

I use WASAPI on my laptop in the office (windows 7) with the uDAC2 and this switches between FOOBAR, iTunes and Spotify with no problems.

So is this a JRiver thing or a Windows XP thing?

Neither XP nor JRiver thing - this is an ASIO thing.
My suggested solution would be WASAPI (or WASAPI even style). Direct Sound is the last workaround. In my setup Directsound gives clicks and pops and I could never live with it.

Title: Re: JRiver & Spotify on Netbook
Post by: Jason36 on February 12, 2012, 09:32:06 am

Thanks for that

Unfortunately using Windows XP, WASAPI isn't compatable :-( Direct Sound it will have to be. I used this for a week when I started using JRiver and it worked OK for me on both JRiver and Spotify.

I may have to come back to ASIO or WASPI in due course, if I upgrade the Netbook to Windows 7.