XXHighEnd

When using Window Vista, I never had this problem before with the latest version of XXHighend (also the last 3-4 versions) but recently, I changed my window C: hard drive to a solid state hard drive and moved my music library to a Buffalo NAS. My old hard drive is an internal SATA hard drive with everything stored in flac format. When I migrated my library to my NAS, I batched converted everything to AIFF. My NAS has 2 1.5 TB hard drives in RAID-1.

Anyhow, when I have many tracks or an entire album loaded in the playlist, after playing 4-5 tracks, XXHighend would start to replay some of the previously played tracks again, even though the track names shown at the right lower cornor of the program lists is the proper next track on the playlist.
If I press play button (while the incorrect track is playing), the music will jump to the proper track.

I am not sure if this is a problem with Win 7, NAS or AIFF format or something else. Also I get occasional popping sound when playing AIFF track. However, the popping sound is not always at the same spot in the track so I assume that there was no problem with conversion from flac to aiff. Playing flac file from internal hard drive was fine. So could this be a problem with NAS connection? Selecting or not selecting the box "copy to XXHighend drive by standard" does not make a difference. Going up on Q1 value does not make a dfference either.

Thanks for any help or suggestion.

PS with exactly the same setting, I think adding SSD and using AIFF file does improve SQ a bit, not staggering but not hard to miss either.

Wouldn't worry that much about your setup Suteetat
It happens here too, sometimes, more than I would like actualy.
Blaim xx for it ;)

Hmm ... Although I recall the phenomenon from Roy 6 months back or so, I also recall it was his way of treating the tracks. But I forgot how it was exactly. Now, or Roy's problem is totally different, or Roy must be able to tell by now when this happens. I assume the first.

... Which makes it even more difficult to analyse;
Indeed it should be obvious that XX is doing it to you (Suteetat) and a first thing to recognize is that this happens with Attended. But, I would say if you clear the Playlist Area, load an album, play track 1 and leave everything alone throughout, everything will be allright. If this assumption is wrong, let me know.

So, assuming that indeed things are allright in that situation, the question is what actually happens when it starts to go wrong. And actually I mean : what do YOU actually do to let it go wrong. Did you stop and choose a next track further down the line ? did you click Next ? etc. etc.

I never saw this, but I also hardly play Attended, and I never play AIF(F)s. And, I think AIF(F) does matter (hence is treated somewhat differently from FLAC, although both have to be converted).

Moral for now : When you play an album (or playlist) always start with clearing the Playlist Area *and* quit and restart XXHighEnd. This will give a for me recognizeable situation but also denotes a reset point for yourself. Now, when this happens, recall as good as you can what you did, and tell me. Besides, attach the XX and X3 log files (thus, switch on your logging, and leave it on for the time being).

So, let's see ...
Peter

This happens more frequently when I add tracks to the playlist (the miscue does not happen right away but after playing a few tracks, if I add more tracks to the playlist while playing) then it is more likely to happen. However, this is the main reason to have computer server, isn't it, to be able to play whatever tracks in whatever orders as you like from the convenience of your couch :)
I will also try loading just one album and let it run and see if I can duplicate the problem. Last night with an album, I have a few single tracks playing first then followed by a whole album (2CD lenght), in attended mode but nothing else was done to the computer then after track 5 was played then it moved back to a few tracks earlier.

Here is the file from last night. I loaded the album around 21.51 and I think it was track number 4 or 5 when the problem begins. When I get home from work today, I'll try playing the way you suggest and see what happen.

It looks like this is caused by the adding of tracks during playback. However, I don't see a difference here with .AIF and .FLAC ...

I'd say, don't bother with the other test for now, but let me know how you add those tracks (when done during playback) ! Also, when done with dragging, do you drag the new tracks in the middle of the existing tracks maybe ?

Thanks,
Peter

I usually add 3-4 tracks initially then start the music. Then during playback, I will add more and more tracks to the playlist by dragging a specific track from embedded explorer to the middle column but always to the end of the list.
In the past, let say that I add 3 tracks then press play then add 3 more tracks, with my old setup with Vista/Flac, after playing the first 3 tracks, occasionally xxHighend will go back to track one and stop rather than playing the next 3 tracks. It happens but rarely and it never played a wrong track before (ie replay track 1 when showing track 4 as the current track).

In either case, I will try to make something of this.

Notice that for Unattended this is even more important (to be able to do). Or at least I myself would like such a feature very much.

Thanks,
Peter
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Me too! I've never been able to successfully add tracks to an already playing list. Would be great to have that option.

Hmmm.... XXHighend behaved pretty well over the weekend for most part. However tonight there was the same problem again.
This time I was playing tracks from an album for awhile. Everything was fine then I cleared the playlist and added 3 songs. See log at 23.42. The first 2 songs were fine but the third song was wrong. Again, log and right lower cornor of the screen showed the right song but the program was playing a song from an album I was playing previously that was already cleared from playlist. When I pressed stop, selected 3rd song again and pressed play, then the third song was played ok.
This problem does not happen often but a bit more frequently now!

Hey thanks. Q : (without looking at the log file yet) : did you click stop / play at clearing the playlist ?

I ask this, because at attended the playing track will remain in there, which I merely made for soem "feeling" ("hey, how can you have thrown out a track which is still playing !"). But *THAT* will create anomalies for sure, because I never thought of just leaving that play (after clear I mean) and just drag in new files.

Oh well, as said, I will create something for it. For me myself and I already. :)
But thanks a lot for this additional info, because I really didn't think of that.

Peter

Hi Peter,
I pressed stop before clearing the album as I did not play through the whole album.
So in order: load album from library tab, play... stop, clear then added 3 tracks then pressed play again.

Suteetat

Very good; This is important to understand the log file.
Also : This is a most normal situation (different from what I thought or was in order earlier). So, work to do !

Again, thanks a lot for your time and attention.
Peter