Hi there.
I'm using a Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700 Amplifier by Creative which is delivered with speakers. The sound is great, it has some things like dts and dolby something inside, looks nice, has a remote and just won't work correctly with foobar.

The device needs to adjust or something whenever it gets a new input source. This happens when I change the input channel (optical, coaxial, proprietary (unused) and analog), the upmix (Creative upmixing programs, dolby pro logic, dts, ...), and when foobar changes tracks.

The funny thing is that this problem does not occur with other players like the WMP, Real, iTunes or MPClassic. The sound card neither seem to be the problem (tested with three sound cards, each using a different chip) nor with the digital output (optical and coax tested). Only the analog output does not produce problems but using this does not seem to be an adequate use for a digital amplifier.
The - about two seconds lasting - gap surely is produced by my amplifier but it seems to be caused by foobar.
Does anybody know how I can fix this error? (KS is no solution as it does not work properly with my soundcards)

I'm currently using foobar 0.9.4.2 on XP Home but the problem also occured with XP Pro and 2K and other foobar 0.9.x versions. I haven't tried on Vista yet.

Thanks in advance for the help
Problemkerze

I have the same problem, but usually it just happens when I start a new track. It seems that many factors play a role in the scenario, output device, sound adapter, sound driver etc.

However this problem is not really foobar specific - I had the same problem using Winamp with a Yamaha DS-XG sound adapter once, and it even created a 1-2 sec gap with crossfader on! When I switched to Creative X-Fi the problem dissappeared with Winamp.

I guess the SPDIF stream are somehow re-initialized and this gap are produced. It would be great if something allowed the SPDIF stream to stay open by sending 0-bytes or something similar.