Yes, all the Vivaldi albums show up if I choose Vivaldi in the browser pane on the left side, but not if I choose the entire XXHighEnd library folder.
All are folder.jpg and none have double filetag.

I just stuffed all the music into genre folders, and all is well - at least when I click a genre folder.

First of all, I love your app. The sound quality is fantastic.

However, I thought I could share a few annoyances in daily use.

1) If I click a song in the playlist tab, and then right click to delete it from the playlist, I get the windows shell instead of the XXHighEnd options. I have to leftclick the song twice - and then rightclick. Rather annoying.

2) XXHE has a tendency to muck up the windows shell service, so that Vista reverts to "classic" view (think win98). One has to reboot to fix this.

3) Why can't I add a singe song to a playlist? I have to add the whole album and then remove the tracks I don't want (and have to click them twice before rightclicking, of course..)

4) If the song that is playing isn't marked in blue in the playlist tab, XXHE won't play the next song in the list.

5) Cover art in the left viewing area sometimes "hangs". I'd like it to consequently show the cover of the song that is playing.

6) I don't like the new browsing in the left pane. I liked the old winstyle with expanding folders, not the new one where you have to click the back button to get to the whole library.

7) When one fiddles about in the folder pane on the left (which I have to use for browsing because the middle pane will not list all my albums for some reason), I get all the albums from e.g. Pink Floyd if I click on Pink Floyd. But when I go back to the main library in the left pane (where all my artists are listed), the cover pane in the middle won't revert from Pink Floyd. I have to click "search". Even then, it only reverts 1/3 of the times.

8 ) Sometimes, the pane on the left showing my root music folder suddenly shows the computer's entire folder structure, starting with "Computer".

Again, I love XXHE and the sound it produces, and I understand it is no easy task developing something like this. Cosmetics are not important to me, but the above listed stuff are quite annoying. Do take it as feedback, I am not bashing anyone:)

/Fidelio

I mean the middle pane. No matter what I do, I can't get all my albums to show up there. Additionally, there is no specific pattern as to which albums that do show up and which ones don't. All my Lenny Kravitz are there, all but one Pink Floyd, only one Vivaldi etc.

Do you mean that if I have two folders above tha album folder, it will show all the albums in the middle pane?

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Pink Floyd\Meddle\[tracks][folder.jpg]

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Vivaldi\Concerti e cantate\[tracks][folder.jpg]

The structure is exactly the same for all my albums. The first Vivaldi album in the Vivaldi folder is the only one showing in the cover art browser panel.

Annoyingly, not all my albums show up in the cover art browser area. For example, all of my Pink Floyd albums are there, but only one of my Vivaldi albums. The folder structure is the same all around. Any thoughts?

You can sleep well tonight - I am indeed using analogue out:)

Thank you for mindblowingly good support. It is so nice to see people dedicated and willing to help others out of their ignorance:)

I will continue testing your wonderful app, the sound is exceptionally good (but you guys probably know that already;))

/Fidelio

Ok, mucked around a bit and this is the result:

Indeed, if I crank the XX volume slider all the way up, Engine #3 works, but only if I specify 44.1 (@16 or 24 bits, doesn't seem to matter) in the sound card's control panel. If I do this, I can set whatever I want in XX, and it still works (mysteriously, also at rates higher than 192, which my DAC can't do. So somethings weird here).

You also said I couldn't use window's volume control with Engine #3. Well I can here. Does this mean something is wrong?

If I play a 16/44 file, will XX use my DAC to upsample it to 24/192 if I set this in XX's settings even though my sound card control panel is set to 16/44 - using Engine #3?

Thank you for a very detailed and useful answer:) Nice to have these questions cleared up.

I will try to get Engine #3 to work, but I do have one hesitation - you said I should try sliding the volume slider to the top, and also that Window's volume control won't work with Engine #3. Well, I have my soundcard plugged directly into my poweramps, so this sounds like a good way to blow my speakers to h¤%#......how would I control volume - I mean, is XX's volume control good? If not, I'll have to get a preamp, something I have been trying to avoid.

/Fidelio

I recently tried XXHighEnd for the first time, after having used iTunes for a long time. First, I must say that the SQ (when I got it to play...) was top notch, much better than any other player I have tried.

I use Vista Ultimate. Hardware is an Onkyo Wavio SE-90PCI soundcard with a 24/192 Wolfson DAC (connected via RCA to the amp), a nForce3 mobo (best ever for SQ) a fast processor and a bucketload of RAM. Stereo is a rather good B&W/Rotel combo.

I had quite a bit of problems with XXHighEnd with numerous different settings. Firstly, I had to set the "DAC is 16/44" to be able to play anything at all. And then it only works with engine 2 and 1, not engine 3. It starts with engine 3, but no music. I also had to set the soundcard to 16/44.

To play a FLAC 24/96 file, I had to set the sound card to 24/96, and the "DAC is" in XXHighEnd to 24/96 as well. But - weirdly - after playing the highres FLAC, I could play 16/44 tracks with the 24/96 setting all of a sudden? Why? If I restart the player, I have to set the soundcard and XXHighEnd to 16/44 (24/44 actually works as well - sometimes).

But, no matter what I do, I can't get Engine #3 working, I either get an error message (unsupported rate or device is busy), or the tracks starts to play without any sound.

One more thing, I don't understand the library function i XX. What is the point of the square browser window on the right? I can browse there, but I cant click anything or play anything from there. I have to press the library button on the upper right an manually browse for the file, adding the to the playlist. Is there no way to browse the library from within XXHighEnd?

Also, volume control in XX does not work, no matter what I try (although I can use Window's of course).

To sum up:

1) Do I have to set the sample rate/word lenght in both my sound card's control panel and in XXHighEnd according to the track played every time?

2) Anyone have a clue why Engine #3 won't work?

3) Is it correct that if I set XX's samplerate/bit to 16/44 and play a 24/96 file, it will downsample the track?

Also - is iTunes capable of using Vista's exclusive mode?

Obviously, the reason I bother with this is the splendid SQ I have heard the few times I have got XX to play. Any help would be greatly appreciated.