Using WASAPI with Music Bee

Hi,

Does anyone hear use Musicbee and have it set to to play using WASAPI?

I have a DAC coming tomorrow and I'm trying to figure how to set it up with Musicbee.

It looks like Musicbee has built in WASAPI support, so I assume I select that, and then select the DAC as the Sound Device?

Do I need to set anything with bit-depth/sample rate/exclusivity/buffer size/etc.?

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Originally Posted by chicolom 

Hi,

 

Does anyone hear use Musicbee and have it set to to play using WASAPI?

 

I have a DAC coming tomorrow and I'm trying to figure how to set it up with Musicbee.

 

It looks like Musicbee has built in WASAPI support, so I assume I select that, and then select the DAC as the Sound Device?

 

Do I need to set anything with bit-depth/sample rate/exclusivity/buffer size/etc.?

 

Anyone?

Well I have the E10 Dac now.  I plug it in to the computer (windows 7), it installs drivers and shows up as a device. 

Then do I open up windows sound playback and right click and set the E10 dac as the default playback device?  Or do I wait and do that in the music program?

How do I know if its doing WASAPI? 

Music bee has its own output settings to, like I showed in the screenshot above.  I can pick Direct sound, WASAPI, or ASIO  and then pick the device from the drop down menu. 

So which output do I pic?  Overall windows output -> E10, or... Leave windows on default and set the Musicbee player to E10 (with direct sound, WASAPI, ASIO choices too), or set both windows and the player to the E10 separately?

- i'm freaking confused

I'm having a hard time getting the sound to consitently reach the E10. 

I have no idea how to set the volume sliders in windows, the Dac properties, and the player.  Sometimes I set them all the way up and can barely hear anything from the E10 although its selected as the default.  Maybe there is some kind of conflict going on?

Thanks.

Ya, I figured it out.