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Letuchkin

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  1. Sounds great! If you find it reasonable I am ready to help you in your testing on my library.
  2. Just checked. In Folder view all tracks from any folders loading correctly.
  3. My OS is Windows 8.1 Pro. Its hard to describe but I'll try. I made some screenshots and sample from my Library. If you look at this screenshot:https://yadi.sk/i/hX1iLLrF3ALCGV and compare it with the sample (https://yadi.sk/i/KUXCrsGk3ALCHe) you will see some differences in album and tracks names (I made some comments in sample file).There is an obvious difference in description of the album in floating window and library view:https://yadi.sk/i/XrJAd8Rt3ALCFY But the worst of all that I discovered a new issue after adding some more folders to my library. Alchemy has stopped starting correctly and permanently crushes during Loading library:https://yadi.sk/i/-osgcEUA3ALCDr with reported error:https://yadi.sk/i/Lq0jRm1b3ALCBA, https://yadi.sk/i/LAS2d8tq3ALCCj. In addition I add my library file which is a cause of crushes the Alchemy:https://yadi.sk/d/8eaPtNSz3ALCJ7 and library scan log which looks not fully filled by results of scanning:https://yadi.sk/i/PzdKjMk23ALCKr. At the end I should say that I was playing with different versions of MSVCR100.dll without any success. Just library file deleting allows Alchemy to start and work in "Folder" mode with empty Library but issue with cyrillic names still has taken place.
  4. I have issue with files and folders in cyrillic even in latest version of Alchemy Desktop.
  5. Are you planning to connect your DAC directly into this ZBOX via USB?
  6. Letuchkin

    HQ Player

    Forehaven, As you have Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K6 motherboard and 16GB of memory than you can create RAM-disk using XFast RAM tool (part of F-Stream Tuning Utility) and try to play music from it. I always use RAM-disk (XFast RAM) because I can hear improvement in SQ but I remember that it help me to solve problem with stuttering in DSD512->DSD128 conversion on my previous CPU (Core i3 3220). + You can try to turn off paging file or replace it to RAM-disk.
  7. Letuchkin

    HQ Player

    Check power plan for your laptop.
  8. Letuchkin

    HQ Player

    I configured my Win PC to use RAMdisk as swap and even after that coping music files to RAMdisk before playing helps to improve SQ.
  9. Letuchkin

    HQ Player

    Music files that you are going to play should be manually copied to Ramdisk and then selected in current playlist area of HQplayer.
  10. Letuchkin

    HQ Player

    The best way to leave laptop battery powered. But if you'd like to use external power source you can try universal DC-DC converter for laptops which usually used in cars and 12 V accumulator (for UPS as example). Using such power source for NAA nettop I improved SQ because of noise in USB data line was significantly reduced.
  11. I'd recommended to use for NAA mini-PC based on modern hardware platforms where Gigabit LAN and USB 3.0 both connected to the fast PCIe bus. Using such mini-PC it is possible to achieve low latency on whole way of the sound stream flowing to your DAC. As example I can point on to ZOTAC ZBOX CI320 nano (suitable for Win 7 with Intel's USB 3.0 driver) and ASRock Beebox N3000 (has dual channel memory and officially supports Linux OS) both are fanless. My NAA build on ZOTAC ZBOX CI320 nano demonstrates quite a sufficient SQ difference between via USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. USB 3.0 port using makes sound so smooth (analog like) and almost eliminates SQ difference between DSD128. There are no any dropouts even with ASIO buffer in 1,5 ms selected for my DAC (KORG DS-DAC-100).
  12. Have you carried on any experiments with RAM-disk? Based on my experience I should note that SQ in configuration with NAA is better than even in direct DSD mode while music files are loading from RAM-disk on HQplayer PC. What is the platform of your NAA machine? Does it have USB 3.0 ports? My new NAA nettop (ZOTAC ZBOX CI320 nano) demonstrates quite a sufficient SQ difference between via USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. USB 3.0 port using makes sound so smooth (analog like) and almost eliminates SQ difference between DSD128 (max for my DAC) and DSD64.
  13. Letuchkin

    HQ Player

    I have the same problem HQP 3.12 on Win 8.1 Pro, i3-3220 with GeForce GT 730 (Driver version 361.43)
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