I have a near field setup at home. I'm familiar with foobar and everything went OK with the UCA202 soundcard. But when I bought a second hand Cakewalk UA25-EX my headaches started (I was looking for an USB soundcard with optical spdif out). My PC is linked to the UA25-EX, via spdif to a DEQ2496, using AES to a DCX2496 and from it to a multichannel volume control feeding a pair of B2030A monitors and a M-AUDIO subwoofer.
Everytime I started foobar using wasapi I obtained an error "unrecoverable error: device in use". I looked for solutions thorugh internet. Using directsound everything worked well but this is not my idea of a solution. After purchasing JRiver (which initially causes the same error) everything were solved:
The UA-25EX has a selector for sampling (44, 96). If I selected 96Khz Windows offered me only 96Khz (24bits or 16). But using wasapi if I tried to play a 44Khz sampled song it failed and showed me the error. If i switched the sound card to 44Khz then everything worked.
Using JRiver I selected wasapi and asio causing the same problem. But JRiver has a choice for resampling. So upsampling all the songs (during playback) to 96Khz solved the problem (the other way round worked as well: resampling to 44Khz during playback and selecting 44Khz in the soundcard. Some files I have are in 96Khz).
So, I've to say that I was scheptical about JRiver benefits against foobar but now I'm really happy about it.
My regards,
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Topic: Problem with UA25-EX and Foobar solved with JRiver (Read 2019 times)