#172 foo_out_asio+dsd 0.2.2 audio drop outs

[Anonymous]

I've written of this issue in the Discussion forum but probably should have opened a ticket. I apologize for the duplication.

I just tried your new update (foo_out_asio+dsd 0.2.2) and multi-channel mapping now works! Unfortunately, there is now an issue with audio drop outs. I have an exaSound e38 DAC. It comes with 2 sets of drivers "exaSound ASIO (2ch)" and "exaSound ASIO (8ch)". If I assign output device to "ASIO+DSD : exaSound ASIO (2ch)" it plays quite well..ALMOST no drop outs...If I assign "ASIO+DSD : exaSound ASIO (8ch)" the dropouts are so frequent, one cannot listen to it. This behavior is the same in the 32 and 64 bit versions. I've also tried it on 2 different computers (both running Windows 10) and the behavior is the same.

Currently, I use the standard foo_out_asio with the DSD Transcoder built with "custom channel mapping" for multi-channel and get NO dropouts at all. I like the idea of using foo_out_asio+dsd and eliminating the DSD Transcoder if the dropout issue can be solved and of course I cannot use the 64 bit version because foo_out_asio is not availble in 64 bit.

Thanks for all of your hard work.

[Anonymous]

I have tried foo_out_asio+dsd 0.3.2 and the dropout problem is still there.

[Andy Lu]

I can confirm that. When upsampling to DSD256 or higher the sounds starts to dropout. This happens in the 64 bit version with newest foo_out_asio+dsd + dsd Transcoder).
Have not tested it with the FB2K v2 32 bit version.
On my Foobar2000 v 1.6 (with older foo_out_asio+dsd and older DSD processor) everything runs fine even when upsampling to DSD512.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
yesterday I used foo_out_asio+dsd_0.3.2 with FB1.6.12 and DSD64 - it produced random pops (very loud "prrrp" sound alongside normal music) once in every 3-5 minutes. I switched to Peters asio2.2out and used newest DSDTranscder (for native dsd listening) and all went back to normal - the sound was proper - no glithces. So there seeems to be some problem with asio+dsd output.