Playback issue - macOS 10.14.6 // Audirvana 3.5.12 (3542)

Audirvana has been working fine until I updated to macOS 10.14.6 Public Beta 3 (and subsequently with Beta 4) - since then when I try to replay tracks using Audirvana I get a 1 second or so burst of white noise when playback starts, but otherwise no sound at all. Playback animations continue - which suggest that some part of the app still thinks music is being played (e.g. the progress marker continues to move to the left etc.).

Changing the source and / or output device makes no difference to this.

Anyone got thoughts on what I can do about this?

PS - yes I know 10.14.6 is a beta preview - but Beta 4 is normally close to release, so maybe helpful to find out if this issue is macOS or Audirvana related.

Debug information appended.


Audirvana Mac Version 3.5.12 (3542)
macOS 10.14.6 with 32768MB RAM

Registered to Gavin Lawrie

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

Polarity Inversion:
	Globally: OFF
	Per track: ON
Effects plugins NOT ACTIVE

UPSAMPLING:
SoX not in use
SoX filter parameters
Bandwidth at 0dB = 99.5
Filter max length = 30000
Anti-aliasing = 100
Phase = 66

AUDIO VOLUME:
Max allowed volume: 100
Replay Gain: None
SW volume control: OFF

LIBRARY SETTINGS:
Sync list: 1 folders
AUTO: /Volumes/Media/SACDs
Library database path: /Users/glawrie/Library/Application Support/Audirvana/AudirvanaPlusDatabaseV2.sqlite

ACTIVE STREAMING SERVICES

=================== AUDIO DEVICE ========================

CoreAudio audio path, buffer I/O frame size: 512

Max. memory for audio buffers: 29696MB

Local Audio Engine:
Exclusive access: Enabled
Integer mode: Enabled

Preferred device:
MM-1
Model UID:MM-1:19B5:0004
UID:AppleUSBAudioEngine:Bowers & Wilkins:MM-1:304:1

Active Sample Rate: 44.1kHz
Hog Mode is off

Bridge settings:
Sample rate limitation: none
Sample rate switching latency: none
Limit bitdepth to 24bit: OFF
Mute during sample rate change: OFF

Selected device:
Local audio device
ID 0x5a MM-1 Manufacturer:Bowers & Wilkins
Model UID:MM-1:19B5:0004 UID:AppleUSBAudioEngine:Bowers & Wilkins:MM-1:304:1

3 available sample rates up to 48000Hz
32000
44100
48000
Audio buffer frame size : 14 to 4096 frames
Current I/O buffer frame size : 512
Volume Control
Physical: Yes
Virtual: Yes
MQA capability
Auto-detect MQA devices: No
Not a MQA device, user set to not MQA
DSD capability: Unhandled
Device audio channels
Preferred stereo channels L:1 R:2
Channel bitmap: Ox3, layout:
Channel 0 mapped to 0
Channel 1 mapped to 1

Audio channels in use
Number of channels: 2
Use as stereo device only: No
Simple stereo device: Yes

1 output streams:
Number of active channels: 2, in 1 stream(s)
Channel #0 :Stream 0 channel 0
Channel #1 :Stream 0 channel 1

Stream ID 0x5b 2 channels starting at 1
6 virtual formats:
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 44.1kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 32kHz
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 32kHz

6 physical formats
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 32kHz
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 32kHz

Local devices found : 6
Device #0: ID 0x4f Built-in Output Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: AppleHDA:66 UID: AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,3:0
Device #1: ID 0x46 Built-in Line Output Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: AppleHDA:66 UID: AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,4:1
Device #2: ID 0x42 Built-in Digital Output Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: AppleHDA:66 UID: AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,5:2
Device #3: ID 0x28 Display Audio Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: Display Audio:05AC:1105 UID: AppleUSBAudioEngine:Apple Inc.:Display Audio:25AA6502:2,1
Device #4: ID 0x5a MM-1 Manufacturer: Bowers & Wilkins Model UID: MM-1:19B5:0004 UID: AppleUSBAudioEngine:Bowers & Wilkins:MM-1:304:1
Device #5: ID 0x30 USB Audio Device Manufacturer: C-Media Electronics Inc. Model UID: USB Audio Device:0D8C:0014 UID: AppleUSBAudioEngine:C-Media Electronics Inc.:USB Audio Device:fd130000:2,1

UPnP devices found : 0

I’m on the non public version, General release and have same or similar issue with Cary audio dh500. Loud white noise. Acts like it’s playing. Only get beginning of track then all goes to white noise. Turned off all upsampling. Same issue. Super frustrating.

I have same problem. my message to Audirvana support goes unanswered at all. if any interest, I still keep the older v.3.2.xx and it works flawlessly.

can you try at your end the older version, please?

Unfortunately not - I get identical behaviour if I try using Audirvana Plus 3.2.14 (3146) into my MM-1 speakers (a burst of static then nothing - but Audirvana Plus appears to think it is still playing track and animates the progress meter).

iTunes plays the track no problem so pretty sure it is not hardware. My guess is that something has changed in a macOS library that Audirvana has not yet been updated to work with.

Hopefully it won’t be too long until such an update appears.

bump! Still happening with latest version (3.5.15 - 3545) despite the changelog reporting that latest version is “Catalina Ready”… which I think this bug suggests is not (quite) true; unless “Catalina Ready” is short for “Catalina Ready but not working in Mojave” :slight_smile:

Hopefully a fix is just around the corner?

There is quite the possibility this is due to some issue with either your DAC interface, or USB cable.
Can you first make a try with Integer Mode set to OFF? (option in the first section of audio settings)
If this helps, then this confirms there is a hardware issue messing with the precise streaming timings of Integer Mode.

Thanks for the suggestion: turning integer mode off fixes the issue on all audio outputs. Huzzah!

Speakers and cable are unchanged from what worked with previous versions of macOS, so whatever the issue is somehow with earlier versions of macOS it did not present itself as an issue.

I guess integer mode was a bit of a bonus - the MM-1’s are very old now and I’m amazed they work at all :slight_smile:

Thank you. I suddenly, out of the blue, had this same problem on my 2017 iMac that’s running OS X.14.6. The culprit had to be Audirvana, because other software players worked fine using the exact same cables and hardware. Found this thread. Turning Integer Mode off in the audio settings took care of the problem.