Hi Arvind. The clear and load playlist buttons are the two arrow buttons on the right side of the play/stop button area. The one pointing up clears the list, the one pointing down loads the list. To see the list click on the musical note at the top left of the center scren. I'd do a screen shot but am not at home right now.

Started getting "To many Buffer Errors" and having to restart. How can the buffer size have changed?

Hi Jarek, I had this problem too. I had to click cancel for many of the various programs. For the most part XX will work though not all of it will. I believe Peter will have this solved soon. Not sure what you mean by the color scheme problem. The new GUI is completely new including the colors.

Thanks Russ.

Thanks Russ, but the problem is that when I click "Run" nothing happens and I have to hit cancel for the security warning to go away. Leaves me unable to play the file. When I was first installing 9z many of the software components that generate security warnings failed to run when I hit run and now, it seems, parts of XX are not working.

Hi Peter, when trying to play an mp3 I ripped from a dvd back in 2006, I got the tag.exe security warning shown here. I assume it was part of the software I couldn't get to run when I installed 9z. I may have to try to find that dvd to rerip the file.......

Oops! Thanks Peter.

Forgot to mention that I nearly eliminated drop outs by reducing the split file size down to 60 from 200.

Yes I had shut off logging. My processor is 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, T5270. It definitely feels like my processor is being maxed out with the new GUI. When I tried to test some tracks in attended mode yesterday for a new playlist, I had way too many dropouts. Had to revert back to unattended.

Also, got bit by the playlist buttons yesterday. I had tracks playing and wanted to add another playlist. I selected the list that I wanted to add, and I'm so used to hitting the load button that I hit the save button and accidentally wiped out the tracks of the list I was trying to load! That list, the one I was trying to load, now names the list of tracks that were playing when I hit the save button. THis is mostly user error caused by a sudden spate of insomnia......Without a load button, its not possible to add a list to a currently playing list. Hope that makes sense.

However, the sound remains quite wonderful.

Thanks Roy. I just used Alt N to change tracks and am rebooting again cause that command caused the "Device Alocated Dread Message". Darn, these new fangled machines......

Because large redbook files were taking too long to process, I tried changing core appointment schemes from 2 to 3 to see if that would speed things up. It didn't. Instead I got the "Engine3.exe stopped working" which is really weird cause I was in Adaptive Mode. When I switched to Scheme 3, I did change the buffer to 4096, which was correct last time I checked several months ago. (Danny, how do you get a buffer of 256 with the Hiface?)

When I changed back to the Scheme 2 core appointment i got the "device allocated but can't play message" and had to reboot to get things going again. Frustrating.

9z has definately slowed down, in all ways, from when I first started using it. Opening a new album and hitting play takes several minutes for music to begin. I've also begun to experience dropouts with redbook files. That's never happened before; occasionally it would occurr with a high rez file but never 16/44.

Sound, however, remains great.

In Unattended (not in Demo project) when I hit play, after an album has loaded, the tracks process--get highlighted in grey, then the GUI disappears, first two songs play and, then,  XX reappears as though it played the whole list! This has happened a number of times this morning (can't sleep, been up since 3 a.m.)

Again, this new GUI is very cool. Love the little red and yellow indicators for when a button is selected and is "processing". Also like the look of the chromatic blue lettering against black/grey.

Occasionally only two track in a list will play, even though when I hit play it looks like all the tracks get processed into memory. This seems to happen when i select a file from the library and double click it to load it. Thereafter, all looks good but only the first two tracks play.

No.  Double click, tracks load; hit play and all works. Maybe I don't get that warning cause the hdcd.exe didn't install. I had to cancel most security warnings when installing cause, with most,  nothing happened when i clicked "Run". But everything seems to work here. A little weird....

Of course, you are correct. Wasn't thinking with all the new buttons to push!