clemster

I'm not sure what you mean here - where else can the music be playing ? I don't have any streaming or other setup for the music to play other than through Amarra into the external DAC and then into my preamp. When I click the button, it goes green for an instant, but then still reverts to orange. Sooooo frustrating.

I can quite reliably reproduce the problem - pretty much every time I go back to my system, it has fallen asleep, and the problem of iTunes not producing any output happens. I can fix it easily by quitting both applications and restarting them, so I don't quite need to unplug the USB or optical (depending on which system). But it really defeats the purpose of having an iPad and iPhone remote, and it's a major hassle to quit and restart applications every time I want to play something. The strangest thing is, this same setup on two other MacBook Pros do NOT have this issue. I would pull out more hair trying to figure this out, if I had some.

Hello, just ripped thousands of discs through iTunes using ALAC into a my network drive, and now driving several systems, each one using MacBook Pro, iTunes (10.3+), Amarra (2.2) with various DACs including Wyred4Sound DAC2, Benchmark DAC1 HDR, Burmester 001 and the Consonance Droplet. They mostly sound very good, still comparing. However, a BIG headache with iTunes-Amarra, if anyone has a solution please help - after a very short break (say 10 - 15 mins) when no songs are played through iTunes, when I resume (whether through the laptop keyboard or by Remote), there is NO OUTPUT from iTunes. So, more exactly, when I resume playing a new song: - the song plays for one second or so and OUTPUT from iTunes terminates - the song's timer ticks on in iTunes - the signal meter in Amarra registers nothing - the little iTunes/Amarra toggle button turns orange (from green) I have to quit both iTunes and Amarra, and restart the software, in order to start playing songs with normal output from iTunes. The wierdest thing is - on two of my four systems (all MacBook Pros running iTunes - Amarra), I don't have this problem, but on the other two I can't fix it, even though I have gone to the lengths of buying a brand new MacBook Pro and installing nothing on it but Amarra. Is it sleep settings issue ? I tried to check, but my machines are mainly set never to put hard disks to sleep, displays to sleep after say 3 mins. Has anyone ever run into this ? Clement