I was able to reduce (but not eliminate) the popping and crackling by disabling the Music Information Screen and turning scrolling off. It looks like every time the player "thinks", I get a pop with the Keith Jarrett tracks.
Something interesting is that if I take the wav file and use sox to create a flac with the same syntax that is in convert.conf (sox -q -t wav $INFILE$ -t flac -c 0 -r 96000 $OUTFILE$), I get a file that is ever so slightly larger at compression level 0 than the standard flac executable. This file does not crackle. If I use the standard flac executable that is part of dbPoweramp at compression level 0, it crackles. I don't know what sox is doing differently to create the file, or why the compression is slightly lower. If I disable flac transcoding and use native PCM in file types on the server, the wav file plays just fine. The combination of FLAC decoding and the new CPU load in the firmware updates is just a bit more than the unit can handle. I have never opened a bug, but I do have a ticket open with the help desk. I will refer them to this post so that they can see what others have written. I never tried firmware 84, as the nightlies were at 85 by the time I started experimenting. -- Celeritas Transporter -> Classe' CP-47.5 -> Classe' CA-201 -> Martin Logan SL3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Celeritas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18887 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84133 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
