Problems With Pause

[stephen]

Hi,

Just downloaded the trial of Decibel and I'm really impressed with the sound output quality. Great work! One problem I have though is that I can't seem to be able to pause the audio at any point. The play icon simply doesn't respond at all. I can use the Apple remote to skip to the next or previous track but Decibel won't respond to the pause/play button on it.

I'm using V1.2.5 (25) on 10.6.8

It would be nice to be able to assign system wide/global keys to the pause/track advance functions so you can control the player whilst using Safari for example.

Thanks,
Stephen

[sbooth]

Are you using an external DAC? It seems this problem usually occurs with an external DAC using a custom driver.

[stephen]

Yep, I'm using Digidesign hardware at the moment which relies on the Digidesign CoreAudio Driver application.

[stephen]

Can confirm that pause works fine when using the built-in audio but fails when using the Digidesign hardware.

[sbooth]

Would you be willing to enable logging and either post or send me the resultant log?

[stephen]

Yes, I'd be happy to help debug this in any way.

[sbooth]

Great! Please enable logging as described in http://forums.sbooth.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=5055 and either post or send the resulting log file.

[stephen]

OK, I've posted the log below. I set the log level to 7, played a few tracks and attempted to pause and resume a few times. Hope this helps solve the issue. I'm running OS X 10.6.8.

Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Opening log
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Opening output for device 0x106
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Opening output for device 0x106 (Built-in Output)
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Setting output device UID to DigidesignCoreAudio10
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Setting output device ID to 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Closing output for device 0x106
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Opening output for device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Opening output for device 0x10a (Digidesign HW ( MBox ))
Thu Jan 5 20:48:32 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Digital volume set to 1
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Digital volume set to 1
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Found plug-in: org.sbooth.Decibel.PlugIn.AddSelection
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Found plug-in: org.sbooth.Decibel.PlugIn.GrowlNotifier
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Found plug-in: org.sbooth.Decibel.PlugIn.IRRemote
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Found plug-in: org.sbooth.Decibel.PlugIn.iTunesBrowser
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Found plug-in: org.sbooth.Decibel.PlugIn.Scrobbler
Thu Jan 5 20:48:34 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Instantiated plug-in: org.sbooth.Decibel.PlugIn.IRRemote (DecibelIRRemote)
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Creating decoder for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectGetPropertyDataSize (kAudioStreamPropertyAvailablePhysicalFormats) failed: 2003332927
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectGetPropertyData (kAudioStreamPropertyAvailablePhysicalFormats) failed: 2003332927
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Selecting physical format for stream 0x10b: 0 ch, 0 Hz, '' (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 0 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Setting stream 0x10b physical format to: 0 ch, 0 Hz, '' (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 0 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectGetPropertyDataSize (kAudioStreamPropertyAvailablePhysicalFormats) failed: 2003332927
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectGetPropertyData (kAudioStreamPropertyAvailablePhysicalFormats) failed: 2003332927
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Selecting physical format for stream 0x10c: 0 ch, 0 Hz, '' (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 0 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Setting stream 0x10c physical format to: 0 ch, 0 Hz, '' (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 0 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting playback for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Enqueuing "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Device preferred stereo channels: 1 2
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Stream 0x10b information:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Virtual format: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting channel: 1
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Channel map:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: 0 -> 0
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Stream 0x10c information:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Virtual format: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting channel: 2
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Channel map:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: 1 -> 1
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoding starting for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoder format: 2 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x0000002c) 16-bit little-endian signed integer, deinterleaved
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoder channel layout: kAudioChannelLayoutTag_Stereo (0x00650002)
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Decoding started for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:39 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:40 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Creating decoder for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:40 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Rendering started for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:49 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:49 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:49 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:52 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:52 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:52 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:54 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Creating decoder for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:54 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting playback for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:54 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Stopping device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Enqueuing "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Device preferred stereo channels: 1 2
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Stream 0x10b information:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Virtual format: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting channel: 1
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Channel map:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: 0 -> 0
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Stream 0x10c information:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Virtual format: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting channel: 2
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Channel map:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: 1 -> 1
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoding starting for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoder format: 2 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x0000002c) 16-bit little-endian signed integer, deinterleaved
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoder channel layout: kAudioChannelLayoutTag_Stereo (0x00650002)
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Decoding started for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Creating decoder for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:55 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Rendering started for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:48:56 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:56 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:56 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:48:58 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:58 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:48:58 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:01 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:01 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:01 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:03 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:03 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:03 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Creating decoder for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting playback for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Stopping device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Enqueuing "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Device preferred stereo channels: 1 2
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Stream 0x10b information:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Virtual format: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting channel: 1
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Channel map:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: 0 -> 0
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Stream 0x10c information:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Virtual format: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Starting channel: 2
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Channel map:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: 1 -> 1
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoding starting for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoder format: 2 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x0000002c) 16-bit little-endian signed integer, deinterleaved
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Decoder channel layout: kAudioChannelLayoutTag_Stereo (0x00650002)
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Decoding started for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Creating decoder for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:05 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Rendering started for "Sun Ra - Purple Night.flac"
Thu Jan 5 20:49:11 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:11 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:11 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:12 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:12 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:12 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:13 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:13 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:13 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:18 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:18 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:18 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:19 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -playPause:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:19 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: -play:
Thu Jan 5 20:49:19 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Starting device 0x10a
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectHasProperty (kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelsForStereo, kAudioDevicePropertyScopeOutput) failed is false
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Setting stream 0x10b physical format to: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Info>: Setting stream 0x10c physical format to: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, 'lpcm' (0x00000009) 32-bit little-endian float
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Warning>: AudioObjectGetPropertyData (kAudioDevicePropertyHogMode) failed: 2003332927
Thu Jan 5 20:49:20 spillages-iMac.local Decibel[4126] <Debug>: Stopping device 0x10a

[stephen]

One additional piece of possibly relevant information about this issue... I'm running Decibel in 32-bit mode as the driver for my sound card is 32-bit only.
Stephen

[sbooth]

It seems the device driver isn't posting the kAudioDevicePropertyDeviceIsRunning event. I don't know why!

[stephen]

Anything is possible with these Digidesign CoreAudio drivers!