XXHighEnd

Seems every time I try Hi Res music stops around half way through the track. Didn't change any settings to see if it made a difference.

And this while exactly this was solved in 0.9z-9(b) opposed to previous versions where this could be the case indeed ?
Hmm ...

Are you sure you installed the whole download in its new dedicated folder, and copied nothing of the old one into there ?

And if this all seems OK, how isolated is the problem ? I mean, press the [ C ] button at the bottom (clears all caches) and bringing up XXHighEnd again - start a Hires, and then it happens already ?

What format is the track exactly ? (I like to mimic it here).

Regards,
Peter

I always download into a new folder and I didn't copy anything from an older version into that folder. I then pasted the 9z9b exe into the Z9 folder overwriting the original Z9 exe. The problem is not random at all; it happens every time I play either a FLAC or WAVE hi res file. Clearing the cache or restarting the 9z9 engine doesn't help.

Brian, this is not the way to to it. So, you are using a new folder all right, but you start with copying the contents of the old one into there. NOT the way to do it !

Unzip the download in its new fresh and clean folder, and leave it at that.

Also : I don't recognize one thing of the easyness you can let this go wrong. So please follow my instructions above and retry, ok ?

Peter

I'm confused. Using the original 9Z9-from the day it was released- I did the following per the release notes:

"Watch out : This patch is available by means of the second download at the very bottom. Only install this over your folder where the native 0.9z-9 is installed in (which latter is the first download near the bottom)."


So should I now delete this folder, create a new one and reload a new 9Z9 without the patch?

No ...
Maybe I misread (misinterpreted) your copying of 0.9z-9b over 0.9z-9 and merely "read" that this was your general procedure (like copying in 0.9z-8e over 0.9z-9(b) new folder and paste over that the new (0.9z-9) stuff.

My bad.

Still, "nothing works" seems impossible to me. Time to send some files maybe ?

Peter

Okay.

So ... seems unbelievable, but almost one month later I thought I could find some time for this. :sorry: ...

I can't see anything wrong with it. However, I must say that I was (psychologically) focused on this being inherently wrong in rare occasions, which I just solved for this version. Maybe *that* was not the right thing to do. This now is :

While you may not be used to playing Hires, this now demands more from your disk subsystem. So, more bytes have to be read from disk, and now it looks it just can't do this. I most honestly add that I don't see how it skips to the next track when this happens, so probably I am still wrong.
Fact is that it just works here and I didn't receive any other single message about this from others.

I tried Attended in Normal OS after a fresh boot, and after reboothing into MinOS I tried Unattended there. Cleared with [ C ] to be on all safe sides.
Your tracks were on a USB2 pen.
No RAMDisk in order.
Q1=14, xQ1=1, DevBufSize=4096 (deliberately all just normal).
Windows 8.

Again, so sorry I am this late with this, especially because it is without result.

Nice tracks. Just heard them twice. :grazy:
Peter


PS: When it still happens at your side in this isolated fashion, don't hesitate to put up the log files from it.

Hadn't played these tracks since I had this issue. After reading your reply, I changed Q1 from 30 to 14 and xQ1 from 10 to 1 and the problem disappeared. Switching back to 30/10 it's clear that the higher latency is the culprit.

Glad you liked those tracks!