Article: Wireless Music Distribution Part One

[davfav]

Thank you Eloise<br />

You opened my eyes<br />

cheers<br />

David<br />

[outaphz]

Thanks for the quick reply Chris! I've been sick the last couple of days so my troubleshooting has been on hold. Here's what I know so far:<br />

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1: the HDCD light does NOT light when connected directly to the Toslink out on the iMac or the Airport<br />

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2. Audio MIDI is set to 44.1 / 16bit (I've also tried 44.1 / 24bit) volume at -0.00<br />

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3. Itunes volume is all the way up and disabled actually for remote speakers<br />

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4. All rips were done on this iMac with a Plextor drive using iTunes.<br />

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It seems like the key element here is that the I cannot get the HDCD light to "light" even when plugged directly in. It's got to be at the computer level not anything to do with the AE.<br />

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I have the latest version of sound flower installed as well but I'm currently not using it. Not sure if this would help or hurt my cause. I can also send you the .m4a lossless I'm using to see if perhaps my ripping setup is not what it should be.<br />

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Any thoughts??

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi outaphz - Yeah it's definitely your computer setup or the file. Can you get me the file?

[outaphz]

It's about 16 Megs. Can I send you a link privately??

[The Computer Audiophile]

Try to email it to [email protected]<br />

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If the size is an issue we'll go to plan B.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just tested the track it it light the HDCD light no problem with iTunes.

[outaphz]

I've got an old iMac G5 nothing is too weird on it. What could it be?

[The Computer Audiophile]

What are you using for an optical cable? A mini-toslink to toslink cable or a regular toslink to toslink cable with an adapter?<br />

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Does your Audio Midi look like mine pictured below? If not because of OS X versions, are your settings at least the same? I noticed you said volume was at -0.00. I don't even have the option in Audio Midi for volume control when the digital output is selected.<br />

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<img src="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2010/0413/audio-midi.png"></img><br />

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