Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-28 Thread lrossouw
Hi Just a thought, but what is the flac compression level on files that cause problems? There has been issues in the past with older players with heavily compressed flacs if I recall correctly. If your flacs are compressed more than level 5 this may be the issue? The Touch may not be keeping

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-28 Thread pgeorges
JohnSwenson wrote: > Do the files by any chance have embedded cover art? That can add a > significant amount of overhead to TinyLMS. > > John S. There is no embedded tag or cover art. Some directories have a cover.jpg file, that's all. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-27 Thread JohnSwenson
Do the files by any chance have embedded cover art? That can add a significant amount of overhead to TinyLMS. John S. JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://for

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-24 Thread garym
pgeorges wrote: > It seems I solved most (if not all) of this problem by installing EDO > utility, and setting buffer to "large". that's good to hear. But it shouldn't be at all necessary in order to play 16/44.1 FLAC files on a TOUCH. Something odd is happening. Perhaps because of TinyLMS. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-24 Thread pgeorges
garym wrote: > Hmmm, that's good as those should be handled natively by the TOUCH with > no transcoding, etc. needed. Sorry, but I don't have any suggestions on > solving problem (I don't use the SD or USB function in Touch). Have you > tried playing the same files on a USB jump drive instead?

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-24 Thread garym
pgeorges wrote: > I play 16/44 FLAC files, on a SD Card plugged in SBT (local server). Hmmm, that's good as those should be handled natively by the TOUCH with no transcoding, etc. needed. Sorry, but I don't have any suggestions on solving problem (I don't use the SD or USB function in Touch).

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-24 Thread pgeorges
garym wrote: > what type of files are you playing? FLAC, ALAC, m4a, mp3, etc. And are > any 24/96 or 24/192? I play 16/44 FLAC files, on a SD Card plugged in SBT (local server). pgeorges's Profile: http://forums.slimdevi

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-24 Thread garym
pgeorges wrote: > I also notice some "clicks" when playing files, that occurs about once > every 5 or 10 minutes. Very annoying. Every time I try to reproduce the > noise by listening back on the track and the click is no longer there > (sometimes the click is reproducible, meaning it is not SBT'

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-24 Thread pgeorges
I also notice some "clicks" when playing files, that occurs about once every 5 or 10 minutes. Very annoying. Every time I try to reproduce the noise by listening back on the track and the click is no longer there (sometimes the click is reproducible, meaning it is not SBT's fault). I only use tiny

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-12 Thread atrocity
I keep a Touch on my desk at work and swap out 32 gig SD cards every few weeks. I notice the same symptom. It's random, but sometimes once it starts the only fix is to pull the power plug and start from scratch. It's a bit like losing gapless playback, only as you note it doesn't actually occur

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-12 Thread sckeith
What I'm meaning by digital burps are slight pauses in the audio and they only occur at the very end or very beginning of a tune. My library is about 300 GB on a USB drive with its' own power supply and not powered by the SBT -

[SlimDevices: Touch] Digital burps

2012-08-12 Thread sckeith
Hello When I first got into all digital music playback it was with my Dell 1525 Windows PC with digital audio output into a Music Hall dac. It sounded great but I noticed a lot of "digital" burps so I started looking around for alternatives. Most of the players required a PC to get the music from