![]() ![]() From WASAPI, Direct Sound, ASIO, and more, there are plenty of audio drivers you are likely to come across as an audio enthusiast handling audio and video production. Well, the best audio driver varies depending on the user and their specific needs. However, with so many options available, where can one even begin? These audio components are at the heart of most modern audio arrangements, from professional recording studios to home-based mixing studios. However, even with gapless playback, there can be an audible tick at the transition between tracks which flow.Audio drivers are a critical component in any music recording and production setup. If gapless playback is turned off (in the Otochan plugin), then the plugin is loaded only when the player starts, and is unloaded at the end of each track this puts a short silent gap between tracks, which can be annoying when playing albums with tracks that flow from one to the next. ASIO4ALL displays its tray icon with the Pause symbol, which changes to the Play symbol when the player is active. If the plugin is configured for gapless playback, then it is loaded when MediaMonkey starts up. For me, this works great, with both MediaMonkey 3.04 and WinAmp 2.81. Other than selecting the correct devices, turning on gapless playback, and turning off resampling, I've left all the settings at their defaults. It has its own control over resampling I'm not sure how that interacts with the ASIO4ALL resampling setting, since I didn't want the resampling turned on. This is the Otachan plugin, which is the one I'm using. One thing this plugin provides that the Otachan plugin does not is, it adjust volume according to the MediaMonkey volume control. After having some stuttering problems with a new new audio device on a new computer (onboard RealTek S/PDIF output), I discovered (by reading the ASIO4ALL manual) that setting the ASIO buffer size to its maximum was useful and caused no particular problems. In order to make this work, it's necessary to expand the tree under the "WDM Device List" and select the "Out" node under "USB Audio", and then uncheck the Always Resample box.īecause this is a playback-only system, latency is not a big issue. My DAC is strictly 16-bit/44.1KHz, so I also had to turn on Advanced Options and turn off the Always Resample option. I've configured Windows to play system sounds through the computer speakers, so I had to configure ASIO4ALL to select the USB Audio device. I am using ASIO4ALL to drive a USB->S/PDIF device that feeds a DAC on my stereo. Then the player should pipe the music to the device. if necessary, configure the ASIO driver to access the device.configure the plug-in to use the ASIO driver and.copy both into the MediaMonkey plugins directory.obtain one of the output plugins and an appropriate ASIO driver DLL.Note that ASIO4ALL has a 64-bit version however, MediaMonkey and the two output plugins are all 32-bit and won't use the 64-bit DLL. ASIO4ALL creates its own tray icon when it's active (playing) you can click on the icon to open its configuration dialog. A generic ASIO file can be found at this library provides an ASIO interface to any Windows audio driver that has been written to the WDM (Windows Driver Model) specification - which should be any driver, these days. The only option provided by this plugin, other than the selection of which ASIO file should be is the selection of 5.1 audio, but it has a button to open the ASIO configuration dialog directly.Īll these plugins do is provide an interface between the player and the ASIO file. There another ASIO output plugin available at, which has a much simpler interface. ![]() This plugin provides several options, but doesn't provide direct access to the ASIO configuration dialog. The MediaMonkey Add-Ons page points to (Japanese) where there is an ASIO plugin available for downloading. Each ASIO DLL contains code to display a dialog for its own configuration. Both plugins allow selection of a particular ASIO device (which is to say, the file). There can be multiple ASIO DLLs, apparently perhaps some audio device has its own ASIO interface file. Neither is sufficient to generate audio both plugins require an additional ASIO DLL. There are (at least) two ASIO output plugins that can be used by MediaMonkey. ![]()
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