Beta bugs (minor-ish)

[GSV3MiaC]

1) If I open the music converter on a CD which has ridiculously long track names (anything by 'Yes'! :smile2: ) the track name over-writes column 2 of the display window (which looks a mess). Worse, if you then drag column1 (the track name) wider, the garbage in column2 stays there (no redraw of that column .. I guess the assumption was that there was no garbage in there in the first place!).

2) The actual player (dbpoweramp) function is skipping and sounding like cr&p while playing an OGG Vorbis file, if there is something else going on. Typically the 'something' is ripping a CD to WMP9.1 Lossless. This is despite the dbamp process having a basic priority of 'high' and the ripper/encoder being set to 'below normal'. WMP10 (spit) will play the OGG file perfectly more or less regardless of what else the PC is doing (AMD XP3000+, so it shouldn't be short of CPU cycles).

Let me know if more info is required. Got an antique CS degree so you can converse with me in Geekish... :o

[Spoon]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

Try the latest beta of music converter, there was a fix in ripping priority.

[GSV3MiaC]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

I'm using 11.5 which was the latest I could find - is there a more recent one?
Actually itI's not just the CD ripper which causes the playback to just and hiccup - seems like other disk activity may have the same effect. Nor is it just Vorbis decoding - I can get the same thing playing WMA lossless (not managed to make a .wav playback jump yet!)

[Spoon]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

I have seen systems where the DMA in the drives was not setup correctly and it caused even wav files to skip.

[GSV3MiaC]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

So have I, but this ain't one of those systems - the DVD drive is still running DMA mode 4, per device manager, and it doesn't seem to cause any other problems. Like I said, WMP10 (spit) plays files without the stutter, but dbpowerAmp seems to struggle when there are other CPU (or disk?) intensive things going on.

Ah well, I shall persevere and see if I can find any more info. Got enough debugging tools lying around that it ought be possible to figure out what causes the hiccup. Maybe WMP10 is just decoding much further ahead?

[LtData]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

I've ripped a CD while listening to ogg files from an external drive using dAP. It must be something else in your computer. I'm using a 1.4GHz Pentium-M.

[GSV3MiaC]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

It's possible, since it is a fairly loaded system (3 HDDs, a DVD, a DVD burner, an ATA tape drive, etc. etc.), and the software is nearly as bad.

However Winamp and WMP10 (spit) don't appear to suffer from the 'stutter', even though WMP10 uses much more CPU time and memory (and 2x as many threads!) as dbpowerAmp. I shall keep experimenting.

[donny]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

have you tried experimenting with the output methods? swaping from wave to directX in the amp menu? don't know if that can help but it could make a difference...

[GSV3MiaC]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

Yes, I tried that a bit earlier and it does seem to help a lot .. the 'wave' output was set to the nForce2 chipset drivers, which are well ancient (the more recent ones have broken the equalizer functions, so I rolled back). DX output seems pretty good. I =can= still make it judder but I have to work at it.

I think dbAmp is exonerated anyway, because I was running PCABX earlier (with .wav files) and that suffered too. Rats, I HATE sound cards and drivers with a passion (and double-with-jam-on if it has a 'Creative' label).

[Bill41]

Re: Beta bugs (minor-ish)

I think dbAmp is exonerated anyway, because I was running PCABX earlier (with .wav files) and that suffered too. Rats, I HATE sound cards and drivers with a passion (and double-with-jam-on if it has a 'Creative' label).

I've had good luck with this one - Chaintech AV710 VIA ENVY 24PT

Bill