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In Reply to: RE: Squeezebox vs. EMU 0404 USB as Transport for SPDIF posted by andy_c on February 06, 2008 at 20:40:12
Since you are having problems with Foobar and Winamp, and no one else seems to have any issues with them, I am assuming that the creative drivers are part of the problem.
Here is a player with native ASIO support that has a trial. You might get lucky here but probably not. Its ASIO does not allow volume control, so you will be OK.
Its GUI is one of the best I have seen even better than Mp3toys IMHO. It is powerful and somewhat rather unintuitive in some areas due to its power.
I recommended it to a gentlemen who was struggling with Foobar and his classical collection. It allows you to group albums by Composer, or Orchestra or Conductor among 15 other categories. I thought it would be perfect.
Well he had problems getting the library set up and since he never told me how the hell he had his files configured I couldn't help.
It will set up a library based on file directory (say individual Artist/ album folders and .wavs ) or by tags if you have a .flac or mp3:
For kicks, I have set up a library based on tags (for my spooky mp3s) and a library of my .wavs using the file structure option. Both worked great.
It has some interesting features that I haven't yet delved into, and its "playlists" (custom collections) are pretty interesting. It will also random all you albums or songs and you can get pretty specific on how that works.
May be worth a try. One day I plan to test it soundwise, since it supports Winamp DSP plugins, I wouldn't be surprised if it is the same asio driver as winamp, and sounds similiar. But i don't remember having to do ANYTHING as far as mapping. I did with Foobar. So the offset you mention might trip this up.
The demo shuts off after 15 minutes but you can restart it.
Let us know if this works.
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