Occasionally the last few seconds of a track are skipped by the player, what gives?

[Woobee]

I've got my music encoded using Monkeys Audio Codec with maximum compression. I'm using a Hercules Game Theatre XP soundcard on my Windows XP system.

This only happens intermittently, but it would be nice to find a solution. The problem is thus:

When I en-queue an album of tracks (using the Music Collection), occasionally one of the tracks will stop playing some seconds prior to the end of the track and the next track will commence.

I haven't detected any particular pattern to predict what causes this to happen. Basically, I'm stumped. Any help would be great. dAP is a really great player, and this is the only niggle I've ever had with it.

Cheers,

Woobee

[ferris209]

Do you use the crossfade option?

[Unregistered]

Negative. I do not use crossfade or gapless.

[Woobee]

Negative. I do not use crossfade or gapless.
Oops, forgot to log in. :blush:

[Razgo]

when you say intermittently, will it always to it before finishing the enqueue tracks? i guess it's not the same track that does it?

i will see if i can re create it. your system is xp? not that it should matter.

[Razgo]

never mind i see your using XP. if you click on "menu" on the dap player can you select AMP and see if your using wav out or directx? choose directx. if already directx then we can rule that one out.

[Woobee]

G'day Razgo,

It does not always do it. A track that it has done it on previously will play perfectly fine on a different occasion. It does not happen consistently.

Yes, I'm using directx output.

[Woobee]

Gah, it happened to me again, just now! Listening to 'A.D.D.' by System Of A Down, and the last coupla seconds didn't play.

Yet when I immediately queued up the same track again, it played right through to the end as it should.

Most perplexing.

[Elmorôth]

hmm i'm having the same problem
never payed much attention to it though
I'm using winxp and waveout (just switched to directx though) and my crossfade is on

I recently switched to the latest beta, and I don't think I've encountered it yet

wouldn't know howcome... I thought it would be the crossfader, since my gapless is off... but then again, woobee didn't use that

[RossRoy]

Back when my music was all in APE format, I had that same problem. The random playback would chop off a good 5-6 seconds of play from a track and start the next one right away. And as they said, it didn't happen all the time, it was intermittent, and it didn't always happen on the same files. Don't know what's going on with that, but I changed my APE back to OGG and it never happened again.

I'm guessing it may be a bug in the APE decoder that reports the file finished when it shouldn't. What conditions and why it happens, I have no idea.

[Elmorôth]

I don't think so, all my music is mp3...

and in winamp I didn't have the problem, so it must be dAP related

[Woobee]

Ah well, if no other ideas spring up, and I get sufficiently sick of the problem, I may try to go to a different codec, which is a shame, because I quite like APE.

[Woobee]

Yep, I'm sick of the problem. I'm gonna try FLAC and see how I go. Wish me luck. :)

[sophophobe]

Of course this doesn't exactly address your issue, but the issues may be related:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=9827 (hopefully the link works)

Maybe you'll get some ideas from this post. Maybe it is a bug in the software itself....