0dB cracks at -24dB volume ?

[Gerard]

hi Gerard,

Well, thats a good (temperaly) solution for a few cd's . i hope i don't have to convert 500 gb flac files back to WAV.
What i don't understand that there can be differences in flac files. In other words why recoding Flac to Flac solves problems with XX.

Hybride   (Should be my name now)  

Well at the time i didn't understand that too.... But since the problem only occured with a few day 20 cd's from the 700 i didn't make a big problem of it.... But the thing you say ( Flac converted too Flac ) That is funny!!  

[PeterSt]

The files are loaded on the playlist through the errors.

Yes, that is something that is wrong. Like I indicated earlier : it is your 1) causing it, the other errors following from that.
This is wrong by itself in the code indeed (loading through the errors).

That reencoding can help is not strange.
That other programs may not be bothered by it is not strange as well. Think of this : I always respected the length as indicated in the header (think normal WAV files now). Today I changed that by, say, just using the physical file length. This is not the way it should go, but it is less error-prone anyway.
Doing this for FLAC is not so easy (at all), because the file length is unrelated to the original file length (as you might have expected). BUT :
The only reason why I grab the file length from the header data, is in order to present the time, which in the end *is* important, thinking of the bottom slider ... That by itself causing "synchronization" with the playback, as you in fact noticed earlier.

[hybride]

Peter thank you for XXHighEnd Model 0.9u-4 

Loading and playing the playlist has defenite been upgraded to a better level!

The cracking -DAC error- is still there in some occasions.

When i press 'stop' in the middle of a song because i want to skip it, i click the next song in the playlist followed by click 'play' again.
XX starts then loading the next song. While loading my DAC cracks (think at 0db).
When the file is loaded and the slider jumps to startposition the crack stops and the music starts normally.

   

[PeterSt]

Is this "crack" or (loud) "tick" ?

[hybride]

Its continous hard cracking for 1 or 2 seconds. It hears like a low frequency, like 100hz
There is something more about this. When i open the library in idle state of XX, the crackling comes up!? and won't stop untill i starts playing a song.

Another -less important- issue in this case are the short miniloops when moving the slider within a song or sometimes when click stop, pauze or play.
It seems that stopping the stream to the dac -sometimes- goes wrong.
Can it be that this is an issue of the -in this case- the Stello dac?

 
 

[PeterSt]

Ah ... stopping the DAC is an issue I promised before to kind of explicitly look at. Never did yet though.

I don't think I heard it from the Stello, but sure from USB in general.
I'll try.

[hybride]

By the way.. The sound is really amazing!!! (not just complaining)