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[philifa]

I have both iTunes and JR Mediacentre 19.0.117 on my computer. I listen via an HRT Microstreamer (USB DAC) using WASAPI into my hifi. Today I downloaded a high quality recording to listen to. Using iTunes the track sounded wonderful with a silent background.When I listened with mediacentre their was an almost constant crackling and popping going on in the background. Eventually after trying a few things I got around to changing the driver in mediacentre from WASAPI to direct sound and all was well again with totally silent backgrounds on both iTunes and mediacentre.

I would prefer to use WASAPI as I believe it is of higher quality and was wondering if anybody else has had this problem and, more importantly, found a solution?

Cheers,
Phil
 

[6233638]

The most common cause for this is the buffer size being used.
Check Tools → Options → Audio → Audio Device → Device settings… → Buffering
 
Depending on the device, sometimes increasing or decreasing the buffer size will help.

[philifa]

Thank you. First tried increasing the buffering but this made no difference. So, reduced buffering down to 25 milliseconds and hey presto....silent background. Many thanks.
Phil