On Tuesday, 6 January 2026 17:14:24 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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.
I'm glad you got this annoying problem resolved. It reminds me of a Compaq MoBo I had causing a SATA HDD to produce a worrying tick-tick- tick sound. I thought the drive was on its way out, but it was nothing of the sort. I just had to reseat the SATA connector on the MoBo and the noise went away. It made me feel nostalgic of the old PATA connectors, which were rather more robust. :-)
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