I just wanted to let you know, Peter, that yesterday I spent the afternoon learning how to set up tags through dbPoweramp so that the track number is now at the front of the string when I rip a CD.  Of course, this still leaves the 7000 tracks I have with the track number elsewhere.  Like most things in life, I learn after the fact.

Just emailed you a sample from a test CD (only thing I had with a lot of short tracks)- 13 seconds - sweep of left channel- then sweep of right channel - then a short burst of noise.

Thanks,
Glynn

Yes, I just tested it again on v5 - same as v6 on all play options I used.

With "crack detect disabled" turned off, I do indeed get crack detect messages at the start of almost all tracks and I cannot play the track.

I have done more testing and norrowed this down to the CDs I ripped using dbPoweramp, which is virtually all my music.  If I rip on Windows Media Player I get neither the cracking between tracks nor the Crack Detect messages.  But I cannot rerip everything. Apparently you have changed something to improve sound since 09-v7 that lays bare these cracks created by using dbPoweramp.

I can only stay with 09-v7 and hope that future changes allow me to get back in the game with your newer software.

When I started learning about PC playback I did lots of searches in the audio forums, and by far dbPoweramp was listed as the ripper of choice for neophytes such as myself who were willing to pay to get high quality rips without the learning curve of using EAC.  This is also how I discovered XXHighend.  As more people get on the computer playback bandwagon, you will probably run into this with others - in fact it is hard to believe I am the only one currently using dbPoweramp and XXHighend.  Perhaps you should ask the others to see if anyone is using dbPoweramp and XXHighend and not having this issue - might narrow down the problem.

Thanks,
Glynn

 Here is the XX log

I updated profile - since I have 2 systems i am trying to keep XXHighend the same on each to keep things simple.  Attached both files requested - cnan't tell from preview if they are both there let me know if I need to resend.  The error ocurred about 3 times- once at the end of each track change - I didn't really count the number of tracks but this should catch the error for you.

This is a big improvement - All tracks load as they should on both my computers.  However, on both computers now there is a burst of white noise (sometimes just a tick or stutter, sometimes a nice blast) between each track.  This occurs on both computers and on all tracks (either with numbers at the front of the description or imbedded in the middle of the description). I restarted them, turned on and off, etc - no change.

Thanks again for all your work- we are almost there.

Thanks, Peter.  Until this problem started I had no idea where the track number was in this string of data.  I just put the CD in, rip it as is, and hope.  Fortunately there are guys like you around who can make it all work.  I look forward to trying the new version, but I remain happy with 09-v7.  I recently converted my amps from 2A3 to 300B and have spent lots of time listening using XXHighend and am really amazed at times at how involving the music is.

First, there is no reason to apologize for anything - I am happily using 9.v7 until this is fixed.

OK - with this latest version I do not get the error message - BUT - some files load and some do not.  By file I mean an album with tracks.

All files with tracks in the following format work fine (probably ripped with Windows Media player when I first started):

01 artist name - songtitle.wav



All files with tracks like this following format do not load (probably ripped with dbPoweramp):

artist name - album - 01 - songtitle.wav



HOWEVER - if I just add 00, 01, 02, even 000 at the start of only the first track within a file (album) of several tracks, ALL the tracks in that file load normally.  Entering 0 doesn't work - entering 1 doesn't work. 

Examples that work:

01artistname - album - 01 - songtitle.wav

000artistname - album - 01- songtitle.wav

Hope this helps.

For what it's worth, the files that are failing to load were ripped using dbPoweramp - all I do is specify WAVE format and it assigns the track info as you see it.  The file that did load was one of my early rips and was probably ripped using Windows Media Player - again I specify WAVE and it chooses what data to put in this track description. 

This is a correction to above post - the screen shot of file that does not work did not appear - the shot of the file in the first post is the one that does work.  Here is the file that will not load and gets the error message - sorry about the size - when I tried to make it smaller it became illegible - we are operating at the limits of my computer knowledge here.

As with versions 3 and 4 I cannot load most of my music files - I have narrowed down the conditions.  I am using 09-v7 with no problems, but there is some change in your later versions that is not working for me,  I will post 3 screenshots:
1.  the error message when it won't load the file
2. track listing of file that will not load
3. track listing of file that does load

Almost all my files are in the format of the one that will not load, so this is a big deal for me.

I will attach a screenshot - if you need more, then let me know.  I can load and play individual tracks.  I downloaded a flac file and it played OK.  I also installed 0.9-w4 on my music only computer and got the same error message when I double clicked on an album facing in the library area.

I don't know how to see more of the file extension info.  All my files were ripped from CD using dbPoweramp as WAV files, if this helps.  I don't really know what a cue file is or if I have any.

I installed 09-W4 on my laptop and get the following message when I click on album from the library area to play it.  Got the same message with 09-W3 - on most albums I tried - a few played OK.  Have not tried either W3 or W4 on my dedicated music PC - still happy w/0.9-V7

=12=System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
   at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length,
Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   at XXHighEnd.XXHighEnd.ExistsAsCueFile(String FileName)
   at XXHighEnd.XXHighEnd.btnLoadPL_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)