Jarek,
another way to do it is to drag and drop an album to the playlist area and press play.
(or a track, or a collection af albums/tracks, or a folder containing albums)
Like with a CD-player: you have to put something in it and press play.
Cheers,
Eric.

Peter,
I did some more testing. The soundticks coincide with disk/processor activity. So for sure it is caused by W7, even after I performed all the tweaking virtually to dead steps.

Good news: a remarkable and nice thing that I found is that the latency checker now shows an average of 100 microseconds. That used to be around 1000 microseconds in Vista!! (similar to what you have, if I remember well)

Eric

Hello Peter,
today I finished the installation of W7 x64 and XXHE.
Everything runs fine and SQ is SUPERB.

I found 3 issues that need to be looked at.

1) Running Time OSD does not work properly. It shows for .5 second and then it disappears. I remember that somebody else had the same experience.

2) Scenario: running unattended, stop and exit XXHE. Now the artwork folder of the last played track does not go away, it stays on the desktop. I have to change WP manually to get rid of it.

3) The sound is sometimes contaminated by ticks and clicks. This happens in both attended and unattended mode. In my opinion these are caused by Windows, for example when I switch to the next track the same ticks are audible. As I said, this happens in both attended and unattended mode. I never experienced this in Vista, so I suspect it is some setting in W7, or XXHE allowing W7 sound to come through???

I hope this helps,
Cheers,
Eric.     


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Peter,
That is correct. The position of the DOT can be like abc.d   or  ab.cd  or  a.bcd! For example, a name like Beethoven Pianoconcerto No.1 is presentimg a problem (because of the No.1). If more than 1 such a name is in the result list, say 3, than all 3 albums are displayed with the artwork from the very 1st album in the result list (upper left corner).
Just try for yourself!
Cheers,
Eric

Peter,
I am not sure if the following bug has already been reported.
If the last 4 characters in the name of an album contains a dot ".", the artwork shown in the Library area is not right. The folder from the 1st album of the resultlist is displayed instead.
I guess this problem has shown up with other users as well.
Cheers,
Eric

Thanks, that is the plan but first I wanted to be sure that XXHE works!

Who knows if it makes a difference to choose W7 x32 or W7 x64?
Any recommendations?
Does XXHE perform on both?
Cheers, Eric.

Hi Peter,
will the DAC be able to be connected to Firewire input, or would it still be necessary to use a Fireface400 or something similar?
And do you plan to run the DAC on battery power (like the TwinDAC+)?
Cheers,
Eric.

Johan,
I am afraid I have been suffering from the same behaviour in my setup. For some reason the interruptions mostly occur when I am having visitors  . For the time being, I keep my disks running all the time. I know that this is not a real solution, but it gives me peace of mind when I am enjoying the excellent sound of 0.9y-4.
Cheers,
Eric

Peter,
NP,
for me there is no hurry to get it fixed. First, I have some other things to do (comparing AP on different DACs)
P.S.
On October 13th, the following message was posted.
Maybe this is related to what I am experiencing.
Ciao,
Eric,

Hi Peter,

If I load a few albums to the playlist (randomly) I invariably get tracks which are duplicated. It can go up to 30% duplicate tracks. However if I load then without randomisation then it does not duplicate.

Arvind

The strange thing with track01 is that, although it is never selected in the Library, sometimes does show up in the Playlist.

Yes.

Peter,
this way it works fine, the selection appears in the Playlist in alphabetical sequence.
So, if I understand what you are saying, this is not consistent...........
Eric.

Peter,
just to be sure that I am clear on what I do.

1) I start XXHE.
2) Playlist contains no tracks, I click Library.
3) I go to Galleries embedded explorer and select 1 album.
4) At the bottom, I select "t" for Tracks and click "Search". Now 13 tracks appear in the Library Area.
5) I Rightclick on Track 01, Play Each - Randomly - Combo: AutoSelect LibraryItems, 5, Click Go
6) Now from the 13 tracks, the following 5 tracks get highlighted (selected by XXHE) in the Library Area: 02,05,06,09,11. The other 8 tracks also stay in the Library Area, but they are not highligted. 
7) Now I click on Playlist.The following 5 tracknumbers appear (from top to bottom, in that order): 12,13,12,10,01.

Now I Clear the Playlist, Exit XXHE, Start XXHE and repeat the same sequence with the following result.
6") Now the following tracknumbers get highlighted in the Library Area: 02,03,04,05,07.
7") I click on Playlist.The following 5 tracknumbers appear (from top to bottom): 07,08,07,06,11.

When I repeat the experiment with Combo: AutoSelect LibraryItems, 13, Click Go,
XXHE hangs. This behaviour is repeatable and it only happens when I choose 13 in the Combobox.

Interesting, isn't it?
Eric.

Peter,
Chk checkbox is unticked.
Tracks in the Library Area are sorted in alphabetical order, except when special character appear in the name. This is a different thing that I reported earlier, but it is not the case here.
I did not select the items myself. A selection (determined by the system) in the Library Area gets highlighted shortly after I press"Go" in the Combobox.

Eric