There's not a single answer, it was a combination of several things - sound cards that didn't like some modes, different handling of 24-bit modes on different soundcards and also a bug in the plug-in.

Jiri

With 1381 for me now all ok in exclusive mode!!! :D
....any type of flac 16/24 bit 44/46/96/192 stereo/multi ch i play....it sound perfect and my avr recognize perfect!
GREAT!!

Which are the changes that resolve the problem?...i'm curious!

Will try to reproduce on some sound card. However, as with any other possible problem, please try to reproduce with Event Driven mode disabled.

Thanks,
Jiri

Trying to play after a long pause does not work.

Yes everything is checked.

However...Sometimes if I hit pause and play again it will not play. I have to reselect the file and double click to get rid of the issue.

We'll investigate a bit more and let you know what I find.
thx

Just to clarify, when you go to Advanced configuration of WASAPI plug-in, it has Event-driven Exclusive mode enabled, right?

Jiri

YES Finally!!!! I can confirm this new plugin (without making any adjustments) works fine in Exclusive mode with my D4 Mamba USB DAC (16 bit 44.1 KHz).

Good work guys.

There was introduced Advanced button in WASAPI plug-in configuration dialog in the latest 4.0 beta build. I'd love to hear from those having any WASAPI related issue, whether it gets better when you uncheck 'Event-driven Exclusive mode' there. Please post your results together with description of your setup (sound card, etc.). You can also try to play with the buffer size configuration in the Advanced dialog, it can help in some cases.

Thanks,
Jiri

Note: Please update out_WASAPI.dll to the one you can download from http://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/out_WASAPI.dll , since there were some improvements made.

You should see my e-mail in my profile here in the forum. Anyway, it's 'jh' at mediamonkey dot com.

Thanks,
Jiri

[quote="jiri"]
Btw, in order to publish here only the result of this process, could you please e-mail me your reply?

Thanks,
Jiri[/quote]

Yes, no problem, but I don't know your email address. :)
I think I cannot attach my logs to a PM in the forum...

Btw, yes of course, Foobar and Jriver work fine in the failed case.

Marco,

no, really, I'm pretty sure it's an Exclusive mode, not only do I see it while looking into our source code, but there are also many way other ways of testing it (e.g. that other audio is terminated when any application goes to the Exclusive mode).

From the log I see why in the case of RME HDSPe AIO card it doesn't look like the Exclusive mode - because it really _is_not_. Due to failure in initialization routines of WASAPI, MM automatically switches to out_MMDS.dll plug-in. This looks like another problem: MM tries to switch to 96000kHz, 2 ch, 24 bps mode, but WASAPI reports that it fails. On the other hand, 44100kHz, 2 ch, 16 bps is used without any problem. Do other applications work fine in the failed case?

As for the problem on S/PDIF output of the Asus MB, I'm still trying to figure out what's going on there. Could you please try:
1. Other than S/PDIF output? I'm actually not sure whether this can be the source of the problem.
2. Download a testing version from http://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/out_WASAPI.dll and see whether there's any difference. It would help to add more details, e.g. in which modes you don't hear anything and in which there's a noise.

Btw, in order to publish here only the result of this process, could you please e-mail me your reply?

Thanks,
Jiri

you guess? :D

Dear Jiri, you cannot be sure wasapi exclusive mode is working as expected using the analogue output; you have no control of what the sound card do; by the way, many consumer sound cards convert the sampling rate to a fixed rate before the D-A convertion.
You MUST use the digital output.

I'm sorry, I don't want to be pedant, but there are no shortcuts for this matter; as I told you yesterday:

[b]to be sure you are working in exclusive mode with automatic switching of sampling rate according to the file, you need a DAC showing the sampling rate on the display, than you have to play in sequence files coded at different rates, for example 44-16 and 96-24, and you must see the DAC display switching from 44 to 96.[/b]

I'm not a programmer and I cannot help with the code, but according to my tests i'd say you have 2 different problems:
1) the way wasapi negotiate the exclusive mode (RME AIO do not go exclusive, i.e. do not change sampling rate according to the file)
2) the way wasapi handle the digital stream (static noise instead of sound)

Hope this helps...

Best regards
Marco

I guess that the problem might be that I haven't tested digital or S/PDIF outputs, will look into it.

Jiri

Dear jiri,

may I ask you the computer brand, sound card and O.S. which works for you with wasapi?
On my side I have tested MM4 with 4 different PCs: a quite standard desktop PC with ASUS mother board, an ACER Aspire and 2 different Sony VAIO, VPC-Z12 and VPC- N12 series; using the on board s/pdif output if availabe (except VPC-Z12), USB output via an asincronous USB>S/PDIF converter (VPC-Z12) and RME HDSPe AIO sound card (desktop PC); Windows Seven x86 and x64.
Wasapi do NOT work in any of these 5+5 situations. (Needless to say, Foobar wasapi works in all these 5+5 situations.)

Anyway, I made 2 debug log you may download from my web site, if you need more test just ask.

[url]http://www.marcobenedetti.it/Audio/MM4/dbgview-Default_out.LOG[/url]
This test is using the [b]on board S/PDIF output of the Asus MB[/b], Win 7 x64, MM4 build 1371.
The DAC switch sampling rate according to the file, but I have static noise or no sound at all.


[url]http://www.marcobenedetti.it/Audio/MM4/dbgview-RME.LOG[/url]
This test is using the digital output of the [b]RME HDSPe AIO card[/b], Win 7 x64, MM4 build1371.
The DAC do [b]NOT[/b] switch sampling rate according to the file and stick to the rate I set in control panel/audio for not exclusive mode.

Best regards
Marco

Sure, the plug-in was tested both in Shared and Exclusive modes. Note that our WASAPI plug-in supports configuration of the output stream - it can either depend on the source track, or can be manually selected. You can use this feature to check whether the playback fails in all modes, or only some specific ones.

Jiri