DSD Drop Outs on Mac Mini with Jriver

Posted by Cafe Jeff (A) on February 20, 2016 at 13:38:53

Hi,

I am not much of an Apple person but inherited an early Mac Mini that I thought would work as a great headless music server. I mainly listen to DSD files drawn off an external driver by way of Jrviver feeding a Teac UD-501 in DOP format over USB. I use Jremote or the keyboard and mouse to control. There is no other software installed on the machine. So far, I have only tried DSD files.

Previously, I used a Windows 10 box.

The Mac Mini works a treat except for two things, one of which I can work around, the other I can't.

Out of expediency I formatted the external USB drive where I store my DSD files into Fat32 so I could work with files on both the Windows Box and the Mini. (The Mini seems to be able to read NTFS but not write it. I did not try using the Ext or whatever a Mac Mini uses.) The problem I have (but can work around) is that some DSD ISOs are too big to fit on a drive formatted in Fat32 or exFat.I can easily work around this by splitting the ISOs into into individual dsf files. No biggie and I am not bothered.

My second problem is more serious. I get the occasional drop outs on playback with the Mac Mini. Every buffer I can find in Jremote is set to maximum size.

Is it just that the Mac Mini is not fast enough? Is it that Jriver isn't fast enough? Is it that there is too much information between sent and received US bus? Is it a problem with my DAC. (My Windows 10 Box never dropped out but was noisy, and I wanted to re-purpose it. The TEAC driver was also, I thought a little wonky though the Jriver driver never troubled me.

All advice or suggestions more than welcome!

If the Mac Mini worked without dropping out, I would be happy as a pig as in muck.

Jeff

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Topic - DSD Drop Outs on Mac Mini with Jriver - Cafe Jeff 13:38:53 02/20/16 (2)

RE: DSD Drop Outs on Mac Mini with Jriver - blownsi 07:58:05 02/23/16 (0)

How much RAM does it have? - LWR 17:41:51 02/20/16 (0)

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