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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Mac => Topic started by: Music_Man on January 15, 2014, 11:46:16 pm

Title: MC 19 & Mavericks (10.9) Playing Well Together Using a Wavelength DAC?
Post by: Music_Man on January 15, 2014, 11:46:16 pm

Early in 19's life, I had problems with it crashing and not "seeing" my DAC unless I removed the mains power and then re-powered the DAC.  Because my DAC has no on/off switch, I was left with removing/reinstalling its AC plug which is not something that I'm fond of doing.  So, I went back to using MC 18.

My Mac mini is exclusively used for audio.  Not wanting to have problems in the audio room by being an early adopter, I haven't upgraded to Mavericks yet.  Using the latest version of MC 19, is there any reason to delay upgrading to Mavericks? 

I want to be sure that 19, my DAC, and Mavericks will "play" well together without incident.  Is anyone else successfully using a Wavelength DAC (mine is a Crimson), MC 19, JRemote/IPad and Mavericks?

Title: Re: MC 19 & Mavericks (10.9) Playing Well Together Using a Wavelength DAC?
Post by: rjkamsma on January 18, 2014, 04:36:25 pm

Yes I think there is a reason to delay the upgrade to Mavericks. With Mavericks my higher resolution files (DSD and PCM 88-24 and up)play for a while (like 10 seconds and than halts for buffering. This doesn’t happen with Snow Leopard.

Title: Re: MC 19 & Mavericks (10.9) Playing Well Together Using a Wavelength DAC?
Post by: JimH on January 18, 2014, 05:06:28 pm

We believe the stability problems with JRiver on Mavericks were fixed a few weeks ago.

Title: Re: MC 19 & Mavericks (10.9) Playing Well Together Using a Wavelength DAC?
Post by: Music_Man on January 18, 2014, 05:23:43 pm

I do have a sufficient amount of HD material and obviously would prefer not to have buffering or other stopage issues.  So between rjkamsma's response and JimH's advice, I'm still a little dubious about installing Mavericks.

BTW, my 2010 Mac mini has 8gigs of RAM, but a standard HD (no SSD) and I'm using an external Firewire internal hard drive dock with a 2TB HD as a music library interface. 

I wonder if Mac/Media Center settings or hardware changes would ameliorate the buffering/halting issues.  One also wonders how different DAC's affect the equation?  Hence, the reason why I was wondering whether folks with my hardware configuration were having issues, or running successfully?

Title: Re: MC 19 & Mavericks (10.9) Playing Well Together Using a Wavelength DAC?
Post by: bplexico on January 19, 2014, 01:34:19 pm

Running a Mac Mini with 16Gbs memory - 2012 model. I run off a SSD boot drive, and all music comes from my NAS. No issues playing back either DSD or other high resolution files. MSB Analog DAC.