Music playback hangs randomly in Wasapi mode (2 Viewers)

[Helios61]

Hi @wawa79

Could you please test playback with XMPlay (player developed by the BASS guys) -> Link and report, if playback is working?

Best regards
Helios61

 

[wawa79]

Hi, yes I switched the numbers.
The file you play is 44.1khz and windows is set to 48. Could you try to match it? Put windows on 16b+44.1 as well. Just to see if it is the switching which fails.

I did it : default windows on 16b@44.1kHz and same issue when playing Wasapi : music hags after few seconds

 

[edterbak]

Oh.. shame this did not tell us anything. I'm out of idea's. Sorry.

@hwahrmann
I think its wise if you shine your light on this a little. Do you have any other MP suggestions or theories? Or is Helios's post, above, the only option left?

 

[wawa79]

Hi @wawa79

Could you please test playback with XMPlay (player developed by the BASS guys) -> Link and report, if playback is working?

Best regards
Helios61

Installed in tested XMPlay: Wasapi playback on my nuForce USB interface does not even start. I tried many combinations of buffer, sampling rate, windows default sampling rate and no sound: elapse time counter freezes at 00:00.1 or 00:00.2 and that's it.


Something strange: as I am repeating since yesterday, Foobar is handling perfectly Wasapi exclusive (both in event-driven and push modes) both for the Azalia integrated audio board and the USB nuForce SPDIF interface...
After I "played" with XMPlay, Foobar did not output any sound in Wasapi mode. I had to restart my computer to get it playing Wasapi again.
Looks like Wasapi bass is doing something wrong...

I am reverting to an older version of my USB interface driver to see what happens. As far as I remember, Wasapi was working fine with MP1.5. And maybe at that time I did not have the current driver (I use to update drivers to the latest available version when reinstalling MP).

I will keep you posted.

By the way, yesterday I tried WASAPI playback through my on-board Azalia audio: I got like pink noise instead of music in MP.
I could reproduce this in XMPlay when ticking 'Use highest available resolution' in 'Options and stuff > Output > Wasapi'. When unticked, it plays normal bitperfect music: maybe there is somethign to change here in Wasapi support also.

Thank you a lot for your support

 

[wawa79]

Last update...
The issue seems to be linked with the driver of the USB nuForce SPDIF interface: after installing the previous version of the driver, I managed to play music using Wasapi with XMPlay (after tweaking the buffer size).
I have also been playing music in MP using Wasapi with no issue for 2 hours . I am not changing anything anymore in the audio settings and enjoy my music at last!
Time will tell us if this was the real cause.

In any case, I feel the way Wasapi is implemented in MP (through Bass) is much less reliable than in Foobar. It would be worth digging a little into this with the Bass team.

Thank you for your help again

 

[BassFan]

Ich wollte nur sagen sie hätten sich eine menge ärger ersparen können
wenn sie meinen ratschlägen gefolgt wären.
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I just wanted to say they can save a lot worse
if they would have followed my advices to.

See!
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...mly-in-wasapi-mode.125571/page-2#post-1076086

greets

 

[wawa79]

I just wanted to say they can save a lot worse
if they would have followed my advices to.

See!
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...mly-in-wasapi-mode.125571/page-2#post-1076086

greets

Of cource, I deinstalled/reinstalled the nuForce driver before posting here... I even reinstalled several times Window 7 and MP 2 times from scratch since I have the issue! Don't call me idiot, please.

Because Wasapi worked with other softwares (Jplay and Foobar), I keep thinking the issue comes from incorrect Wasapi implementation in MP/Bass.
Luckily it works correctly with the first version of nuForce driver (not available on their Web site anymore), and I had a backup of it...

I think it is still worth reviewing Wasapi implementation for 2 reasons:
1) Wasapi works fine with any other Wasapi audio player I tested (Jplay, Foobar)
2) pink noise on Azalia audio set to Wasapi : https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...mly-in-wasapi-mode.125571/page-3#post-1076368