Hello, Michael. Good news!
On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 19:18:11 +0000, Michael wrote: [ .... ] > Whenever the head moves along the track to a new position, the reading/ > caching/verification/error correction process starts again. Therefore > I expect the same problem would manifest. > I haven't used xine for decades now, because it had become > temperamental at the time - but if it works then at least xine offers a > workaround. Please post back if/when you crack this problem - I'd be > interested to know how you fixed it. :-) xine turned out to be less perfect a player than I thought. Between the tracks, it has a short gap of audio output, perhaps 0.05 second or 0.1 second. I found this a little disturbing whilst listening to Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, an hour long continuous piece of music with 14 "tracks" (which I heartily recommend). The problem turned out to be a defective SATA socket on the motherboard. When I moved the plug to a different socket, I got perfect playback from deadbeef. :-) This was with the new DVD drive, and new SATA data cable too. This was after having swapped my "new" PC's original DVD drive into my old PC, which gave perfect sound there, showing for sure it wasn't the drive (or the replacement I bought). This is all yet one more reason why I don't recommend MSI motherboards. I don't intend to buy another one. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
