Well Mani, it was a good read. I started to be intrigued already. Like time bombs in the decoder etc. (not put there by me of course).

Have a nice weekend,
Peter

Haha (and Hi Telstar).

The funny thing is that I started to warm up the Intona as a first (BUT was pointed to it by someone else in there), and next You and me and all have the Phisolator in their DACs. Also as a first.

Thank you Coen.
Regards,
Peter

Hahaha, well done !

Maxi, maybe you ran into the issue of
error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory

I know what causes it, but once it is there I don't know how to solve it. And not for me, but for someone else.

Kind regards,
Peter

Hey Jack - looking great !

Thank you for keeping us in the loop and ... see ya.
Peter

Henk,

No no, I am not suggesting at all that it is an OS issue as such. The issue is just your PC. Point is, the OS is ahead of me in the program of stalling things. So, I / XXHighEnd will do something alright with your drive A:, but it is the OS which does not report anything and hangs on it.
Compare with the situation "Waiting for LAN to come up". There XXHighEnd detects (can detect) that your lastly accessed music file is not accessible, and tells you (or does it herself) to switch on the LAN. A similar situation, but no fault situation like in your case. And I must try to copy your fault situation with you as a guide ...

I hope it is clear a little ?
Peter

Hi Henk,

Thank you for the clarification. But this is not enough for me. To to be childish, but if I connect a music disk to an USB port, pull it out again and start XXHighEnd, for 100% sure nothing hangs etc. So what I like you to do is :

1. Start XXHighEnd.
2. Clear the Playlist Area (Play button).
3. Quit XXHighEnd.
4. Pull that cable.
5. Start XXHighEnd.
Hangs ? then around #2 apparently more needs to be "fresh" and I don't know what. So the idea is that yuo must create a fresh situation that nothing goes wrong when you pull the A: drive. Done ? Then we continue :

5. Start XXHighEnd (same as above).
6. Do something, which you think incurs for the erroneous situation. E.g. load an album in the Playlist Area.
7. Quit XXHighEnd.
8. Pull the cable.
9. Start XXHighEnd.
Hangs ? then report the exact sequence of matters.
Does not hang ? back to #6.

In the end I need the exact sequence (as lean as possible) to solve it. I must first be able to mimic it ...

Thanks,
Peter

PS: The fact that it requires the same USB port to let it go again, already tells me that it is an OS issues. But I told so right away. This does not mean I possibly can tackle it anyway. I hope.

Henk,

Can you provide me a most easy example so I can mimic that behavior ?
Please make that example 100% reliable because I don't have the time to destroy everything in order to copy the behavior in your PC, which is, well, kaput.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Henk,

If it is really just "hangs" then I can't do anything about it. If it is the situation that a popup tells you "Waiting for LAN to come up" (or something like that) we can talk further.

If that is a USB3 connection, you might want to try USB2 to see whether that helps. If Yes, again we can see further (maybe).

Best regards,
Peter

 

Dear Maxi,

I would tell you right away about the timers when I could, but it is impossible because consistent with the whole setup (of two boot loaders).

But super of you that you managed !

Regards,
Peter

PS: I think it took a year before "we" could use the timers ourselves in XXHighEnd. Maybe the difference is not even audible.

Activate it again ... haha.
Maybe it can work now because of your lower Max SFS ?



I don't think it is about 20 days or such; it will be - after an amount of time (x days ?) - that you do something that makes the sound engine disappear (stop) and *then* the memory wil be eaten right away because it was pushing already (too few of it because of the for us unknown reason).

Did you consider to "reinstall" the OS by means of such a "Copy" file ? Backup / Restore
It only takes the work of the copying, after knowing jow to access it (which means boot into one of the other OSes first). Then we can also see whether this is right from the start now, after aplying 2.09 to it. And of course write down your important settings before doing it all.
I am not saying that you *have to* do this, but we may learn something from it.

Regards,
Peter

Hi Johan,

So indeed it must be related to something which keeps your PC busy and eats the memory.
The question could now be : does this bother so much to bother you ?  

Regards,
Peter

So here is my little list of newly obtained "Nice Stuff" and then for the part which may tell you something. And please notice : these albums were new to me. Not new in absolute sense.

I must add that when an album is not "SQ compliant" it will never make it to my Nice Stuff Gallery.

In sequence of appearance :

Boris Vanderlek - Blues news
Boris Vanderlek - Blue and Sentimental
Chet Baker - In Milan
Yello - Toy
Paul Hattink - No limits {this is the guy behind Hatfield's End}
Hans Zimmer - Crimson Tide
Eric Vloeimans - Gatecrashin'
Baba Blues - Fishermen {I didn't know this guy - really good}
Odd Børretzen - Kelner
Hans Theessink - Slow Train
Keb' Mo' - Bluesamericana
Christian Willisohn - Heart Broken Man
Christian Willisohn - Blues on The World
Roger Waters - Is this the life we really want {needs more listening before it is appreciated}
Armin van Buuren - A stra of Trance (CD2)g
Neil Young - Peace Trail (MQA) {superb SQ}
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (MQA)
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish (MQA)
Jimmy Smith - Any number can win
Jimmy Smith - Rockin' the boat
Various (Alligator Records) - Crucial Blues
Neil Young - Storytone (MQA) {I didn't know this album at all - really different}
Eric Bibb - A Ship called Love
Enya - Dark Sky Island (MQA)
Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1967-72 (MQA) {old but in MQA better sounding}
Ron Boots - Bookworks
Neil Young - Lucky Thirteen {did not know this album either - even more different !}
The Cars - The Cars (MQA) {obtained because old stuff sounding really good}
The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is over
The Crual Sea - Three legged dog
Rob - Funky Rob way
Tinariwen - Amassakoul
Mark Knopfler - Tracker (MQA)
Hans Vandenburg - Dig it yourself {the guy from Gruppo Sportive - a superb new album !}
Train - Does Led Zeppelin II
Beasty Boys - Communication {great album - possibly their best}
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic - Live at Montreux
Boris Blank - Electrified {from Yello - I did not know this existed}
The Traveling Wilburies - The Traveling Wilburies, Vol.1
Steve Earle - Guitar town
Styx - The Mission {just tried it from my past glamour stuff - is quite OK !}
Arrested Development- Unplugged {from my past - hip-hop of its own (nice) kind}
Gaudi - Magnetic {the only "ambient" I mention - the guy is just the best}
Scorpions - Acoustica {a left-over of my "metal" testing (works quite well these days)}
Avisha Cohen - Into the Silence (MQA)
Yello - Live in Berlin {a for so great album that I cancelled the concert last December (this album was stupidly published one month or so earlier)}
Nick Bärtsch's Ronin - Live {I didn't know this band - really cool}
Judas Priest - Hero Hero {more from the metal endeavour}
T-Bear & the Dukes - Ice Machine {blue grass- didn't know the guy}
Jimmy Smith - Root Down (live) (MQA) {how old stuff can sound superbly}
Jonas Hellborg - Octave of the Holey Innocents
Neil Young - The Visitor (MQA) {possibly the best new album from 2017 and really one of Neil Young's best}

So the above is an extract of the 132 in total I newly put to Nice Stuff. Below you see them all. Still, 2016 brought me some more (148).

Peter

Hi Paul,

Nice initiative !
I myself seem to be stuck in the old stuff forever. But it is also quite difficult to listen to the unknown while you actually "must" listen every day for tweaks working out for the better or not.
Later I will go through my newest "Nice Stuff" (sort on date) and see whether there's anything interesting in there. Sure, there's sufficiently enough new in there, but I doub't whether this is new stuff as such.

And I will try yours !

Btw, about Neil Young ... try The Visitor. I think it is very special and this one is really from the old days (that good) - but better.

Regards,
Peter

PS: I recall Loud Hailer as explicitly failed (squashed vocoded modern) so YMMV anyway.

Dear Todd,

When I read out the emphasized part I already had the shivers and saw it coming. And indeed ...
Actually I am sitting here for a few minutes, not knowing what to type further.
I must be careful because more and more I seem to get involved with you guys and things like this. In this case this started with a "since last week my dear wife is behaving strange" and although this was the about last message about it, I keep on being involved.

So Todd, let's say that out of everyone, me (and you) know the very best how "loaded" your post is. I so much can imagine everything. With my text here, I hope that people reread yours and envision your expression.

This is also what music can do / does to us. It keeps us remembring all the extra nice and special - and just the same severe moments throughout life.

...

Peter