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digital playback cut off at the beginning

Although I admire the quality of a digital output what puts it down is the fact that every time I start playing a track, the sound card (Sound Max AD1986A) sort of initializes itself for about half a second and then starts to produce sound. This is a big problem, as you usually often click on various tracks and you actually *often* loose their beginnings. I have tested also Windows Media Player and it is still the same. Actually it is worse than Foobar. Because Foobar does not cut the sound when it is already active playing, but is only changing between tracks (continuous playback without user's activity), whereas Windows Media Player aways mutes the beginning even when simply putting the navigation bar to the begging of the track. So in Foobar it happens every time user activates PLAY function. But when you go to the beginning of a track by the slider or when the Foobar is playing on its own, all the sound can be heard without any silence.

This is related only to digital output. When using analogue the sound is on all the time of course. Also it is not the problem of my receiver because I have manually set it to DIGITAL IN and it does not switch between analogue and digital anymore. It must be something with the Sound Max sound card muting the digital output when it starts playing a new session.

Does this happen on any other PC digital sound cards? Can the Foobar bypass this issue somehow (when the user clicks on another track, the playback is not "interrupted" = sound card does not turn the sound off for a second)?

I am thinking about returning to analogue if this is a standard issue with digital connection with the PCs.

Thanks for any comments.

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #1 –
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....c=48611&hl=

perhaps...

Quote from: maiki on
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....c=48611&hl=

perhaps...


no it does not work here... the problem is in the Sound Max 1986A which mutes the sound when PLAY is pressed, needs to be worked around somehow... I can think of "macro" when user clicks PLAY a 0.5 second or so silence is being produced and by this time the sound card gets ready and the tracks can startplaying, of course in the normal playback when computer startsplaying a new track we do not want this, as it can be a gapless multitrack session (and as I said there is no interruption in such case in Foobar)

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #2 –
OK I have got the solution: start another instance of Foobar and pause it...

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #3 –
I have the same problem with my X-fi, and my previous Yamaha DS-XG has the same behaviour. The Yamaha had some settings that would change this - If you set it to use Digital Out only, it played fine, however if it was set to analogue+digital, even if a crossfader was used (in Winamp), it would silence ~1 sec on the new track start.

I have not played around with settings and/or driver versions on my X-fi to find a solution for this yet, but Bitmatched playback does have the problem, but not on gapless files in foobar.
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #4 –
actually it does not silence on new track if Foobar plays on its own, only if user starts a new track by pressing PLAY in any way...

in the settings I can only see disable/enable digital OUT... nothing with analogue

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #5 –
Quote from: maiki on
actually it does not silence on new track if Foobar plays on its own, only if user starts a new track by pressing PLAY in any way...

If you read my post, it behaves different with different cards (that's my experience)
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #6 –
I have just downloaded the latest Winamp. It plays perfectly. Converted.
 

digital playback cut off at the beginning

Reply #8 –
That's just a little bit backwards

(ah well, good riddance if they'd actually do that...)
err... i'm not using windows any more ;)