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376  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Host Process for Windows Services stopped working on: August 28, 2009, 08:43:57 am
... but I'm a 'put on an album and listen to it' person. 

I reckon I'm in that category also. If I wanted a jukebox interface I would be looking else where, but I like to sit down and generally enjoy an album from start to finish in the order the artist had, in most cases I presume, spent considerable time thinking how best to present their art. 

The interface may not have all the bells and whistles some others do, but it's essential functionality is intact, and only takes a little effort to find your way around the basics. There is more power lurking behind those context menu's though and I'll admit I even don't use them all .. haha

Once the bugs from these 'y' versions have been sorted so we are at the stability that the last of the 'X' 's had, we can all sit back and enjoy the music more ... until Peter brings out the "Z" versions ... LOL

It's all about the SQ.

Cheers,

Russ
377  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 28, 2009, 08:23:35 am
Peter,
when I load loooong playlist, I sometimes like to 'preview' what is coming. So I click on another track down the list to see the coverart of this track to come. While I do this, the music keeps on playing (I feel like a real DJ!). That is very nice, but now this new track is highlighted (of course) and I lose the position of highlighted track that is still playing. I tried to find what is currently playing under the Info-tab in XXHE, but there is only technical date and no name in there. Do you get a feel of what I am asking for?
E

Hi Eric,

I see your dilemma .. just tried it myself.

What we basically need is a "now playing" box , or perhaps the path to the bottom right ( just above the progress slider ) expanding to include the track name.

I found a round-about way to see what is currently playing, and that involves opening up  the 'played.dat' ( hidden file ) in notepad and looking at the last entry. Playing with hidden files can be fraught with danger, so i suggest we wait till Peter can incorporate a change to accommodate your needs.

Cheers,

Russ
378  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 27, 2009, 05:32:20 pm
... and might you still be awake, have one on me.

thanks for the thought Peter ... and thanks for the bourbon  drinks

If you were referring to the TT site, I rarely visit there these days. The program has been stagnant for almost 2 years or so and I've moved on to the BD discs. I have a bit of a lookin on AVS now and then in the CRT forum, but unless I want to post I usually jump in as a guest, much the same as I do on any forum I am a member of actually, including here.

Make a note for next year .. haha

Cheers,

Russ
379  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 27, 2009, 04:37:35 pm

Russ, if I may ask, can you switch formats ? Thus, tick Allow Format Change, and let a 44.1 run into e.g. a 96 and back. Attended or Unattended doesn't matter much. Just the latest version (0.9y-2a). Maybe from this some equivalence or common denominator with either me or boleary emerges.


As requested ... using 0.9y-2a

In UNattended mode I queued up the first track of Cannonball Adderley, followed by the first track of an Acoustic Alchemy album (16/44.1), followed by the second track of the Adderley album , and finally the second track of the Alchemy album.

Without ticking the 'allow format change' button ( I wanted to see what would happen in that situation after the first track completed ), I pressed PLAY and it started up fine. I was called away to a phone call shortly afterwards and the screen saver kicked in. At the completion of the first track I was greeted by silence and when I moved the mouse to see what happened the GUI had popped back up and the second playlist entry was highlighted. If an error message 'had' popped up I didn't notice because I was away from the PC.

I then ticked the 'allow format change' box and pressed PLAY while the second track was highlighted. ( I don't think I shut XXHE down in between these sequences but the logs will show whether I did or not ). As hoped, the first of the Acoustic Alchemy tracks played till the end then the second of the Adderly tracks, followed by the second of the Alchemy tracks. So in this sutuation, ticking the 'allow format change' box seemed to work.

Ever curious to see what would happen if I started with the 24_96 track first, I then shut XXHE down, without clearing the play list, and fired it up again. The 4 entries were still in the playlist as expected and I pressed PLAY. Shortly after the GUI disappeared, and just as I was expecting to see the coverart appear, up pops a OutOfMemory Exception .... hmmmmm. Probably didn't like that 10 minute long 24/96 track.

Moved the logs for this test into a separate folder.

I also noted that yesterdays testing also had the logging turned on, so I've zipped all of those up also for you to look through in case anything is apparent, although I haven't got any running commentary as to what I was doing for those.

It sure has been an interesting way to spend one's birthday ... bug huntin' .. LOL

As always, happy to help.

Off to  sleeping sleeping sleeping for me soon.

Cheers,

Russ
 
380  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 27, 2009, 01:36:18 pm
Hi Russ,

Was this perhaps still ok at the first 0.9y version(s) ?

(don't need to test if you don't know right now)

Peter

Just plonked 0.9y-1 back onto the HTPC for testing.

It is a lot more consistent in playing the Cannonball Adderley album. It started OK in UNattended at a 100MB split setting, so I gradually increased the setting by 1 MB each time, clearing the playlist and shutting down XXHE in between each test so it would have to rebuild the wav's each time.

At around the 125MB setting I started to see inconsistencies in actual sound startup. Sometime the coverart would appear but no sound happened, or sometimes it would start playing the first track fine. This inconsistent start is likely another glitch inherent in that early 'y' version, but at least I'm not seeing the OutOfMemory condition with that early version.

Haven't had a chance to play the album all the way through yet. I know the opening bars of track one off by heart now though .. haha

Hope that helps a little Happy

Cheers,

Russ
381  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 27, 2009, 09:00:11 am
A followup to the above:

Playing in unattended, it brought up the outofmemory exception message at the conclusion of the 2nd track.

Think I'll stick to standard 16/44.1 tracks for the time being  scratching

Ta,

Russ
382  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 27, 2009, 08:44:09 am

Btw, if you DEcrease the file parts it will go eventually.


hey Peter ..

got the album to work in ATTENDED mode using a split size of 90MB, but when I attenpted to play UNattended it didnt work, so dropped the split size incrementally to 80 before it played. Thing is though, it wasnt consistent. Sometimes it would play UNattened at 80MB settings and other times it wouldnt. This was even after a clean restart of XXHE each time using the same setting.

I shall await your magic Happy

Cheers,

Russ

383  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2a feedback - Out Of Memory error playing 24_96 tracks on: August 26, 2009, 04:37:24 pm
Here's another bug for you to look into.

When attempting to play, in UN attended,  "Cannonball Adderley - Something Else" encoded in 24_96 flac, after the flac's had gone through their initial conversion process and the GUI dropped out of sight, I was presented with a blank screen ( was expecting the cover art next ) and about 5 seconds afterwards an Out Of Memory error box appeared. I clicked OK and nothing further happened. Alt-X to get back to GUI was the action.

Initially I had the split file size setting at 100MB then bumped it up to 128MB but it made no difference.

Tried it a couple of times with same result, so turned logging on for last attempt.

Tried again in ATTENDED mode and same results.

Logs attached ( hopefully in chronological order )

 sleeping sleeping sleeping soon for me.

Russ

384  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Crack Detect message after Pause ? on: August 26, 2009, 03:57:33 pm
This following may have some relevance here.

Earlier today I was playing some DTS encoded tracks and naturally had to tick the 'disable crack detect' box. As expected the warning box came up which I then duly acknowledged by clicking on the OK button.

When playing in UNattended mode I was unable to use the Alt-N to get to the next track. When I used Alt-X the crack detect warning box reappeared ( prior to the GUI coming back ), and it was not until I had clicked the OK button on the message that the GUI came back.

I don't recall it happening like this in previous versions.

I've been converting some multichannel DTS Master Audio from Blu-Ray's into 24_96 DTS wav's and they sound fabulous here Happy

Cheers,

Russ
 
385  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 26, 2009, 03:38:27 pm
For the Coverart Out of Memory Issue : Please try below XXHighend.exe. Paste it over your current XX folder and let me know when it helps (it should Happy).

Edit : Forgot, this solves the doubleclick issue on the Coverart as well.

Hey Peter,

thanks for the quick fix.

The out of memory issues and double click issue appear to be resolved now, however I am still having difficulties with the 'B. B. King' folder not showing folder art as I outlined above. Will continue tinkering to see if I can see what is common amongst any more ( if they are evident ) that don't show up.

Cheers,

Russ
386  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback - Gallery display issues on: August 26, 2009, 10:33:29 am
One more example to assist is tracking down this bug.

The error messages discussed previously occured while displaying the contents of the Segovia folder.

The "Dedication" and "The Spanish Guitar Magic of Segovia" albums DO NOT have folder art present in their folders currently, but instead 'found' their  artwork from the first album ( A Centenary Celebration ).

Hopefully these examples are enough for you to figure it out Peter.

If you need more I will provide, but I'll stop filling up your server with screen grabs for the moment !

Cheers,

Russ

 

387  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 26, 2009, 10:05:52 am
Some further tinkering reveals that it may not be a simple case of multidisc albums tripping thing up. Under my Alan Parsons Project folder I have a 2 CD set of "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"  and that displayed OK. Note however that I have folder.jpg entries for that album, so that clue may be tied into Eric's observation that the lack of folder art is having an effect.

I have attached another instance where the cover art is failing. That "Boned!" album under The 12th Man is a 2 CD set, and there is no cover art present.

Russ

388  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Version 0.9y-2 feedback - Gallery display issues on: August 26, 2009, 09:35:14 am
Peter,
while I was loading galleries from the library area, the following error popped up. In the special case when an album contains more than 1 CD, AND no artwork is present in the album OR ANY of the underlying CD's: an out-of-memory message appears and XXHE gets stuck.
I work around it by manually stopping XXHE (ctrl-alt-del) and putting some artwork in the album or any of the underlying CD's.
Cheers, Eric.   

I'm also experiencing problems with the gallery display functions with 0.9y-2. It appears OK in 0.9y-1d, so whetever changes were implemented between those versions appears to have broken something.

XXHE appears to be getting tripped up if two or more discrete CD's are listed under a Album Name, and I suspect some other sceanarios are at play , including the inability to display contents under certain artist names. "B.B. King" is one that I have noticed won't display anything, yet "B.B. KIng & Diane Schuur" works OK.

I have attached a series of screen caps below to try and show what is happening here. When I click on Tangerine Dream in the left column, the folder art panel in the middle starts to reveal the albums within that folder, but quickly brings up the error message that a few have already noted. Clicking OK on the message may, or may not, reveal a few more of the albums. Eventually, by clicking on the OK button multiple times as it occurs, a page full of folder art appears. I also discovered that these error messages may be 'hiding' behind the GUI, and that pressing the ALT key brings them to the front. If you attempt scroll the centre panel, this refresh attempt triggers another round of error messages until a whole panel is filled out once more.

The memory usage of XXHE also climbs steadily during all of this .. see the Task Manager snapshot.

I have also attached the LibraryData.txt file which is active at the time.

If you need more info or folder structure layout just holla.

Might have to go back to 0.9y-1d until this bug is fixed, or try and limit my listening to artists that don't have multidisc sets.

Cheers,

Russ ( still relishing the SQ of these 'y' versions ! )
389  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 0.9y-1d ... wow! on: August 25, 2009, 05:02:53 pm
Hi Peter,

I agree the bass response is quite amazing; crisp & very tight, just the way it should be. However I feel that the high's could be turned down a couple of dB's to make the mids more pronounced.

Anybody else feel the same way?

Arvind

Hi Arvind,

IMHO the overall response is very linear and detailed, with no apparent weakness or emphasis anywhere. The mid's have always been balanced on my system and several friends I have created music servers for, including the guys who designed and built my fabulous Octagons.

If you are perceiving some inbalance in the midrange, try some alterations to the QC parameters to see if that helps.

Have you ever performed an in-room frequency response of your system at the listening position? The results can be VERY enlightening and an ear-opener to what is happening with regard to playback characteristics. Room modes are easily discerned, and it's not uncommon to see peaks and troughs of 15+ dB showing up in suboptimal setups.

I use a program called ETF from http://www.etfacoustic.com/index.html and my last check earlier in the year is shown below.

I should point out that the approx. 3dB elevation from 35Hz to 100Hz is deliberate, and it's the way I chose to integrate the subs with my mains. The mains by themselves have a meaningful response down to the very lower 20's .. the subs just add a little more emphasis without being overpowering. It is seamless blending at it's best.

Cheers,

Russ
390  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Version 0.9y-2 feedback on: August 25, 2009, 04:26:21 pm
Hi Peter,

so far so good with 0.9y-2 with no major issues noted so far  thankyou, although I haven't spent a heap of time with it yet.

I have a question regarding the 'processing' of the entries in the right hand panel though. In previous versions ( up to 0.9y-1d ), if I double clicked on an entry, for example 'folder.jpg', the application with which that is associated, in this case Windows Photo Gallery, would open up and display it. Similarly, double clicking on any text files listed would bring them up in notepad.

With 0.9y-2 this has changed. Double clicking now results in a duplicate of the entry and has '-1' appended to the file name. If done a second time, then a '-2' copy of the original is created and so on.

If, however, I right click on an entry to bring up the context menu, and then chose the 'open' command,  things behave as in previous versions.

Just wondering if this change was intentional, as it is far easier to simply double click to open something rather than go via the context menu.

The sound is still amazing in these 'y' versions ! sounds good !

Cheers,

Russ
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