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#Foobar alternative reddit install#

However, if you want to go deeper you can install plugins. The base music player doesn't have too many features, making it a breeze to use. That would sort out issues with the other gear involved.Īdditionally, you could try use another (2-Ch) DAC (+Phones Amp) and check if the crackling noise changes or even goes away.Īnd vice versa, using a different AES3/SPDIF source (PC) as the player?įurther, I would test if short 'preconditioning' tracks - a few seconds of silence or dithered silence manually inserted right after (actuallly: causing) a sample rate change in a playlist - fix the crackling. Despite very good library management capability, Quod Libet is easy to use. I would second the idea of testing the shortest possible interconnect path first. Does the manual mention effects of switching sample rates in any detail? Obviously, at least the DAC outputs should be muted, but we don't know at the moment if the DEQX does this properly not. Thanks and the digital transmission standard for AES3/SPDIF does not specify a defined behavior when switching sample rate on the fly.Īt any rata, both the transmitter and especially the receiver will need some time to re-sync and generate valid data again (plus filling buffers and resume operation of the filters etc for the case of the DEQX processor). I hope and would be grateful if someone could shed ligh on the issue, so I understand it better, and propose potential solutions. My suspicion is that one of the systems in the chain does not 'mute SPDIF' (if such a thing even exists.) during switching/synchronising to the new sample rate.

Once I know the crack source, how do I best mute the cracking? (Inserting a mute circuit would definitely be an option.) The latter I can live with, but the cracking is annoying me as I heard that this is not happening in other systems.įunk Tonstudiotechnik CAS2-V3SE SPDIF switcher In my digital audio chain I have a 'problem' since years which I would like to get rid of: When listening to music from different digital sources or when the sample rate of the music changes I'm getting a loud 'crack-crack' noise out of my spekers and the initial second (or so.) of the new track is lost.