Features high resolution track editing support and parity with the Music Server features of Pure Music 1.74a. Also corrects a problem with the Preamp selector buttons, preventing non-contiguous inputs from appearing in the main window.
New SPIN button disables the animation of the LP disc, while still showing the play position with the tonearm controller.
The tonearm may be moved to a position on the disk before commencing playback, and play will begin at this place when the Play button is pressed. The waveform display also may be used to precisely guide the stylus "drop" location to a quiet groove between tracks, or to the precise start of a track (the center of the display corresponds to the stylus position).
Known Issues: known issues with the new Editor are listed in that section of the document. An issue with the player is that sometimes when an album gets to the end of the last side, it may fail to "flip" automatically back to side 1.
Preview Release 5s6 corrects a problem that could cause rendering of the vinyl cue guide image to stall part way through the process. This problem was determined to be computer speed dependent, so depending on your computer setup, it may or may not have occurred.
This release also incorporates the change introduced in Pure Music 1.26 to eliminate crackles when using the Upsampling feature. There is a new check box option for Vinyl Correction (enabled by default) to only apply the correction curves to recordings with (Raw) in the file
name.
Known issues in 5s6: Rendering of cue guide image for albums recorded containing only one side. These recordings can still be played in Pure Vinyl 3 without the cue guide image. Also, the "More Is Less" and other new features of the iTunes Music Server from Pure Music 1.30 are not incorporated in this release (but will be in the near future).
Preview Release 5a includes performance optimizations.
Sample rate switching should be more robust now, especially for USB audio interfaces.
A problem has been corrected that could cause playback of a track from a new playlist to repeat the first few seconds (see notes for Preview 5), and another problem was corrected that could cause stuttering when playing gapless tracks with the Manual Play Position adjustment option enabled. Manual Play Position adjustment should now work just as seamlessly for gapless tracks as it does for single tracks.
There is still an occasional "boundary value" problem (when reaching the end of the tracks in a gapless playlist, a following track might be skipped over) that is being investigated.
Additional playback volume dithering options have been enabled/revealed.
This release also corrects a problem that could disable the multichannel crossover feature.
Preview Release 5 fixes problems with skipping and sporadic cessation of playback / communication with iTunes, and a problem that caused the track position to stop updating after playing the first track.
iTunes DJ playlist mode is now supported.
New Hybrid Memory Play mode. See description of options for more information.
The playhead position can be controlled from iTunes with gapless tracks.
Memory Play has been redesigned to use more of the available computer memory, especially useful with high definition audio tracks.
Note: during investigation of the skipping problem, a word length bottleneck (32 bits) was discovered in the audio stream. This occurred at the very last step before sending off the audio to the audio hardware: at the monitor volume setting. Given the position in the audio signal chain, this should not matter with regards to the delivered audio quality. However, to eliminate any uncertainty on that point, the pathway has been "given an angioplasty," with
the monitor volume setting now applied within the realm of the 64 bit audio chain.
The music server now ignores the following media types: Videos, Movies, TV Shows and streamed content, including Internet radio and shared iTunes libraries. If you wish to use iTunes shared tracks, the disk volume containing the music must be mounted locally, and the tracks added to your iTunes library. See the Troubleshooting section above for more information.
A problem relating to setting the initial iTunes volume setting using the Monitor volume as the initial value has been corrected.
The iTunes connect/disconnect icons now highlight when the mouse is positioned over them.
Known issues in this release:
When changing playlists, the first track played in the new playlist may start playing briefly, then stop and repeat.
The track shown as playing in iTunes isn't updated if the playhead is changed using the tonearm controller (Animate mode) when playing gapless tracks.
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