Sorry Leif. I don't think I can get what you mean. But I will make that emergency procedure. Ok ?

Edit : Yes, the !CurrentlyPlaying.plxx is always replaced by the, well, currently playin Playlist. The question for the removal of it was just becasue it may cause anomalies by itself. After removing it, and that doesn't help, it's not the problem.


I merely suspect that you are dealing with the problem here : Re: Spdif digital out only???. My advice : wait for the next version (although the solution most probably is in the post I just referred to).

Thank you for your patience.
Peter

Leo, believe it or not, but I can't stand that mixer. If something has to be setup, something new, I ask my wife. Does this mean women logic is required here ? maybe. But I can hardly ever make sense out of it. Sorry ...
Just try it out; Explain how things work, and let her choose a box. Overhere that works ... 

For those who want to help and try (and have the problem) :

Below is an XXEngine3.exe. Save you old XXEngine3.exe (e.g. rename to .old), and unzip below zip to your current 0.9x-5b folder.
Please try whether the Device Selection now works properly. It should.

If not, please post the test01.log file which will be your the current 0.9x-5b folder. Note that this log file will be overwritten at each attempt of playback.

Note that you cannot see this is a new version. Only the file date/time denotes it.

Thanks a lot,
Peter

Upgraded to the January drivers (and 2.70 firmware), and ... hey, I do have loudspeakers.
I wonder where they sit.
Maybe the monitoring stuff.

Nah, don't bother. My drivers are several months old by now.
My Vista is still SP0 though. So possibly *that* has changed things. Otoh, it seems more logic to me that RME changed the names. That is, I guess that is where the are coming from.
Dunno. Will upgrade my own drivers which are from June 2008.

Anyway, the problem is on my part. I figure it is related to the " /" in Speakers / Headphones, knowing that " /" has a special meaning in the C language for strings, and the strangenesses I apply to get those names out from the one program to the other. Will fix it.

Btw, the DAC should always be set to what it really is. So, 24/192 in your case.
Well, I guess.

Yup, that would be my fault. I don't know how or what, but it must be.

Thanks.
And Andrew, SORRY ! you will be dealing with the same problem I suppose.


I still wonder where you get that "Loudspeakers" from. Mani, this might be related to your HDCD culprit thing ?
You are using recent drivers of course ? (like not over 2 years old )

Is your DAC 352.8 capable ? hahahaha (now don't say it is and remember, the Fireface reports that wrongly (see your DAC Test report) It even tries to play it ... very distorted)

So yes, in this special occasion (352.8 is offered, DAC can do 192) it downsamples.

Mem box should not be needed though, BUT, you will need to limit the file parts loaded (to 100MB will do I think).
There's a thread hanging around somewhere, "How to play hires files".
Ok, here : How to play Hires files.

Peter

Great. And AUDIODIDAKT, thanks.

As said, I will build in an emergency procedure for things like this (never had it myself though, but I know from other users it can occasionally).

Hmm ...

Mani, what does the DAC Test show for sound device on the second line of the report ?

FYI : Selecting the sound device for Engine#3 is just new, and things may be wrong.

On quite some other note (but maybe not) ... I now see that I don't have Speakers for the RME. I only recognize them from XP drivers ...
See below. It should be Aanalog etc. ...

Leif, please do this :

In your 0.9x-5b folder, there will be a Librarydata.txt file. Throw it out.

There will be a Favorites.txt. Throw it out.

A !Played.plxx. Same.

A !CurrentlyPlaying.plxx. Ditto.

Remark : I am not sure right now whether all these files are just visible, and they may show only when you have set hidden files to show.
Now, I don't want you to get into too much trouble, so you could just leave it to this, or throw out the files you indeed can see.
I may even be forgetting one or two ...

The next version will contain some kind of emergency thing that does it for you. So you might wait for that if you want.


Peter

Honestly ? I don't know. What I do know is that I am using it right now for other reasons (never mind which) and net I am very satisfied with it.
I also know that - coincidentally - Russ is using it, which btw is one of the reasons I dared buy it in the first place. So ...

So this indeed is an internal (PC) soundcard, but right now it is my choice. Maybe the FF does better, but keep in mind the price tag. Remember, I have both, and I still use the Juli@. No warranty for you because I use it differently, but the "PC noise" which would come from it, does not bother me. IMHO it is not a big deal to try it for 120 euros (a FF400 is a 1000 more).

YMMV.

Oh, but we're working on that one.

Mani, don't make too much fuzz about the file. I have that sample bit !

But they do ... http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html
Of course this is sample material (full length files though), and I guess (no, I bet) they will sell it either, if you only ask.
But how to play them ?

Btw, I have gotten some downsampled (from 352.8 ) to 24/176.4 from them (specially made for me). But then I needed that for testing XXHE (which they knew). So, they can do it, and will do it, and I guess they also will do it if you just pay for it.


And thanks for the file ...


Edit : Note that I just know they record in DXD. They do that (anyone for that matter) because DXD can be edited while DSD hardly can. Careful though, because they also can convert existing DSD material to DXD. So I guess you must find out what they really recorded, and what was just converted. Also, the fact that they sell it as SACD says nothing. How to sell (play) it otherwise ?

Thanks, that link will just do fine !


Oh, but that is being done. That's DXD (e.g. 2L does it).

Peter