Hmm. Well, again, there is nothing special about track transitions as far as the s/pdif is concerned. No information about a track change is transmitted, nor is there any interruption of the signal or change in the out-of-band data. (I am only speaking of SB3/TP here - a CD player will at least change the Q-subcode data)
The only "special" thing that might be more likely to happen during a track transition than elsewhere is that the signal could be composed of digital silence (all zeroes), depending on the CD. This causes the s/pdif signal to have the fewest possible number of transitions in each frame, as opposed to any other audio signal which will have a random and roughly equal distribution. A buggy s/pdif receiver may have trouble locking on to the signal, but even if that were the case, I wouldn't expect it to cause crackling. Rather, it would cause significant dropouts which might sound like the beginning of the next track being cut off. I have never actually heard of that happening, but it's plausible. The other thing that can happen in the presence of digital silence is that a DAC could conceivably trigger a hardware muting circuit. Some DAC chips even have dedicated output pins to signal all zeroes, for this purpose. However IMHO that would be a rather stupid thing to do for a valid, all zeroes signal. You would only want to do that if the signal were no carrier at all. So really I don't know what's going on in your system. If you get it into a state again where you can reproduce the problem, you might try concatenating two tracks together into a single file and playing that. If you still get the crackling between the tracks then it could be a data sensitive issue. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37264 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
