Alex B

blindjim,<br /> <br /> <i> Alex any suggestions on how to enable m4p playback in MC 14?<br /> <br /> m4p from iTunes store? If the files are DRM protected you can only try to play them through the QuickTime engine. MC uses it by default for m4p files if QuickTime is installed. I have seen a problem report regarding m4p playback, but I don't know if that was an isolated case or if Apple has changed something in the DRM system.<br /> <br /> <br /> <i> Is it true ALAC (m4a) playback even with DC base filter-age involved, won't allow for bit perfect playback using JR MC 14?<br /> <br /> I have confirmed that ALAC decoding through the DC-Bass Source filter is bit perfect. There are several ways to verify that. Perhaps the easiest way is to set MC's output to Disk Writer and play a Wave file and an ALAC encoded version of the same file. For instance the Binary Comparator component for foobar2000 can compare the output files and verify that the audio contents are identical. (Binary Comparator: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_bitcompare )

MC15 beta has been released for public testing and a new Kernel Streaming output mode is included. It works fine for me on XP.<br /> <br /> http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56718.0<br />

Probably the m4a input component in MC cannot read embedded cover art.<br /> <br /> iTunes saves its cover art either in the file tags (i.e. they will be embedded if copy/pasted by hand) or if the images are downloaded by iTunes it places them inside the proprietary database.<br /> <br /> I think some third party tools/procedures can export the images from the database to disk files, but I don't have any links to post. You could try a Google search.<br /> <br /> MP3tag can mass extract embedded images to folder.jpg files. ( http://www.mp3tag.de/en )<br /> <br /> Possibly the "70%" you mentioned was dowloaded automatically by MC, but you could still try MC's built-in cover art downloader. Select the album files and do: right-click > Cover Art > Get From Internet. In there you can select the the best image if more than one is available. The lookup tool is based on the Artist and Album tags, so they need to be correct. The online database doesn't contain cover art for each and every album, but it may help quite a bit. Though, as I said, in your case it is possible that MC already downloaded what it could find.

I was about to post the same reply. DC-Bass Source can decode ALAC (at least 16/44.1, I have not tried anything else) and the output can be routed through MC's bit perfect audio engine.<br /> <br /> I have posted some instructions and a download link at the J. River forum:<br /> http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=55606.msg377942#msg377942