Well I guess i's the Dac, cause I continue with this problem with Windows 7 and a desktop. About half the time it works and about half the time I get "too many buffer errors". What is different is that with the laptop, if I then tried to continue playing music, click play on the next track in the list, I would get the dreaded (for me) "Device allocated but cannot play" error, which could only be "fixed" by rebooting. Now I can play the next track without having to reboot.

The file extension, .jpg, was hidden by Windows 7 default "folder view" for common file extensions, so that's not an issue.


There is nothing in the Anne-Sophie folder. That folder is the "Artist" folder created when I ripped the cd with dbpoweramp.


I'm not sure what you mean here. Whenever I rip a cd, I secure rip with dbpoweramp. The cover art automatically is placed in the folder with the tracks. Is there another way to do this?



That's not the way it works here. If I just type on the keyboard "Bob" from the directory as shown below, it automatically leaves all four subdirectories (Johann/Ann-Sohie/Bach/ and Classical) and goes to the Bob Dylan Directory. I don't type anything in the search box. That's the way I've been doing it from the beginning.

Will work on the file issue and let you know. Regarding that cyan bar, that happened when I took the screen shot; cyan has never shown up with xx open on the desktop. However; in unattended, every once in a while, that same bar stays on the top of the desktop screen after the GUI disappears. Its color, to me, is gray. Its so infrequent that I haven't posted about it.

Hi Peter. Whenever I am in my "classiscal" directory and try to navigate out of that directory via the "arrow pointer" at the top left of the scroll bar of the embedded library explorer window (see screen shot cause, well, a picture is worth a thousand words!), I get an "xx has stopped working" error. This also happens if I try to leave that directory by typing an artist's name with the keyboard. It mostly happens just with this directory. My general structure is: Music/Artist/ Album; classical may have several intervening folders: (Music/classical/composer/artist/album) as shown in the screen shot. If I don't use the "arrow pointer" and just scroll to an album outside of the classical directory I'm usually okay. Is this caused by too many subdirectories? If so, is it possible to adjust things so that that many subdirectories can be made to work?

In fact, music played off the c drive or the secondary internal drive still had clicks and pops as long as the usb external drive was plugged in. It never occurred to me that that was the problem. Before totally disconnecting it, I tried it in every usb port with no luck. The drive was a relatively new Western Digital 500 gig drive.

Yes.

Fixed....somehow. As soon as I unplugged the now, backup external hard disc after transfering music files to an internal, secondary one all unwanted sounds, whether playing no music or 24/96 files, ceased. Should have listened and gotten a desktop a long time ago, quite a pleasant upgrade 

Well am still trying to work this out. Its very weird that with no music playing in xx i get some clicks and pops if I have my amp on and the highface connected BUT when playing a 16/44 or 24/88 file in XX there are no clicks or pops at all, at least not ones I can hear. I can even set the split file size to 135 with the 24/88 file and its smooth as silk, no unwanted noises. The ONLY time it happens is when I play a 24/96 file. Smaller 24/96 files are not as effected as larger files. Increasing the buffer to 4096 seems to help a little but not much. There does not seem to be any pattern to the interval between the clicks. I haven't tried Engine 3 yet but will let you know. Off to work now. Have a great day!

Thanks Roy. I've copied a few of the tracks to the c drive of the desktop and I still get a few clicks and pops. I've tried all core appointment schemes and priority settings without success. Am going to apply the vista/windows 7 tweeks discussed here and see if that helps. Tis a bummer cause the GUI functions soooo much better than with my laptop, but gotta have clitch free high rez! May send the computer back if I can't get this sorted out and have somebody build me one that does it all  .

With my laptop my external music drive was connected to the computor via firewire, now its connected to the desktop via usb. Could this be the cause? Don't have a firewire port on the desktop. Just wonderin'. I have a  1 terabite drive ordered that will be installed in the desktop to be the new "Music" drive. Am hoping this clears the gaps up.

Thanks guys. Processor is 2.93 Core 2 Duo. Player priority is low; thread priority is real time, scheme 3.

Thanks Roy. DPC shows very low latency, better than my laptop. Also, I set the power options to high performance. It definately reduced the gaps but not completely. I'm thinking there is some reource intensive program running in the backround but am not sure how to figure that out. I think I'll try disabling programs that automatically start up when the computor is turned on,  but that makes me vervious cause I'm really not that knowledgable about computors.Am at work now so I can't test till this evening. Any suggestions appreciated!

With my new desktop and Windows 7, I now get clicks and pops playing large (8 to 15 minute) 24/96, flac or wave files no matter what the split file size is . With my laptop/Vista I could  go as high as 125 split file size with these same files and not have click and pops as long as I disabled my wireless card. Not so with Windows 7. Any suggestions?

Playing large 16/44 files is not a problem AND they never sounded so good!

1. I never had this issue with the laptop.

2. It was repeatable with every album the first time I tried to put it in the playlist area.

3. IT IS NO LONGER AN ISSUE, since I tried the wallpaper to see how it would work with the desktop. (The wallpaper worked okay except the XX album image became the desktop image even after I closed XX; I have to change it in the "desktop options" after closing XX). The point though is that ever since I tried the wallpaper, I don't get the "cannot find file" error anymore. Gotta love computers........

Its repeatable the first time playing an album or playlist. Stopping and starting the same playlist there is no error. Stop and start a new playlist you get the error. Attached are log files. When it occurs play is not effected.

The 9-z2a is my folder designation not a download. Should say 9-z2. Thanks.....am stuck to the couch.......