Thanks a lot Symphy, it seems to work very well! I didn't pick up this post until this evening, but as it happened I was experimenting with bitperfect playback in MP yesterday. I installed ASIO4ALL 2.8 beta 2 and fine-tuned it as described
here. I made sure all OS volume levels were set to 100% and checked that all Realtek processing options were turned off. Then configured MP Music to use the BASS engine, no crossfading, no gapless playback, volume set to 100% and ASIO4ALL selected as the ASIO device. I made sure I had a
Dolby Digital Surround wav file ready to check that I had real bitperfect playback. Alas, all I could hear was noise so it was time to dig deeper.
There is a
plugin which allows you to use an ASIO device in Winamp. I installed it and tried the same file in Winamp, but still the same problem. So, at that stage it looked like MP wasn't too blame. I still had an old kernel streaming plugin for Winamp so decided to give that a try, and it worked! The next step was to uninstall the ASIO4ALL beta release and install the latest official version 2.7, and that worked as well! At that stage I was hopeful I would have bitperfect playback in MP... but no, still only noise.
Back to the MP forums, I decided to do a search for ASIO, and your post came up at the top. Installed your plugin as per your instructions and voila, bitperfect playback in MP! I agree it is not for everybody, but if you have a decent HiFi system it makes a world of difference. Thanks again!