Playbak issues with LSX

Hello, I am just trying the new software thinking of quitting roon and using audirvana as this software can add songs to tidal playlists and I like the sleek software.

But: on my macbook 12 inch 2015 only one song plays, then music stops. not all time but most of the time. I deactivated raw pcm, seemed to help for some minutes.

Macbook goes to sleep, even though in the processes audirvana is listed to keep mac from sleep. ?!?

sometimes I put in a song and it just wants to play a different one. play the different one, then i can put in the other one.

sometimes a song added as next one ruines the queue.

Roon sucks, especially because there is no sync of playlists to tidal, only from tidal.

Audacity seems to make it very difficult for me to like it. I will post the log.

Audirvana Studio 2.0.0 (20000)

macOS Version 11.7 (Build 20G817) with 8GB physical RAM

Connected account of : Alex Kanzian

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

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

UPSAMPLING:
r8brain not in use
r8brain filter parameters
Bandwidth = 99.5%
Stop band attenuation 218dB
Phase linear

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

LIBRARY SETTINGS:
Sync list: 1 folders
AUTO: /Users/alexderk/Dropbox/Music/ab 2019 Rip von CD und gekauftes
iTunes/Music library synchronization: not synchronized
Library database path: /Users/alexderk/Library/Application Support/Audirvana/AudirvanaDatabase.sqlite

Remote Control server:
Listening on 127.0.0.1 on port 56609

ACTIVE STREAMING SERVICES
TIDAL: Connected as HIFI

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

Active method: UPnP

Preferred device: [UPnP] KEF KEF LSX Model UID:KEF SP3994 UID:uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715023383

Selected device:KEF LSX
Manufacturer: KEF
Model name: SP3994
Model UID: KEF SP3994
UID: uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715023383
UPnP device at http://192.168.178.38:8080/description.xml
ID 0x0

1 available sample rates up to 44100Hz
44100

Volume control: Yes

MQA capability
Auto-detect MQA devices: Yes
Not a MQA device, user set to not MQA
DSD capability: Unhandled

Device audio channels
Preferred stereo channels L:0 R:1
Channel bitmap: Ox3, layout:
Channel 0 mapped to 0
Channel 1 mapped to 1

UPnP set capabilities
Maximum PCM frequency set: 44100Hz
Maximum PCM bitdepth set: 16
Not native DSD capable
Avoid RAW PCM streams: Yes

UPnP / DLNA supported protocols :
http-get::audio/l16;rate=44100;channels=1:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get:
:audio/l16;rate=44100;channels=2:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get::audio/l16;rate=48000;channels=1:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get:
:audio/l16;rate=48000;channels=2:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get::audio/mpeg:dlna.org_pn=mp3
http-get:
:audio/x-ms-wma:dlna.org_pn=wmabase
http-get::audio/x-ms-wma:dlna.org_pn=wmafull
http-wavetunes:
:audio/x-ms-wma:*
http-get::audio/vnd.dlna.adts:dlna.org_pn=aac_adts
http-get:
:audio/vnd.dlna.adts:dlna.org_pn=aac_adts_320
http-get::audio/mp4:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso
http-get:
:audio/3gpp:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso
http-get::audio/mp4:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso_320
http-get:
:audio/3gpp:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso_320
http-get::audio/3gpp2:
http-get::audio/wav:
http-get::audio/x-wav:
http-get::audio/flac:
http-get::audio/x-flac:
http-get::audio/x-aiff:
http-get::audio/aiff:
http-get::audio/vorbis:
http-get::audio/x-vorbis:
http-get::audio/x-vorbis+ogg:
http-get::audio/ogg:
http-get::audio/x-ogg:
http-get::audio/m4a:
http-get::audio/x-m4a:
DLNA 1.5: Yes
Native Gapless playback: Yes
Universal Gapless playback active: No
Missing events workaround: No
Can play native DSD: No
Volume Control: dB
Number of channels: 2
Use as stereo device only: No

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 0x0 0 channels starting at 0
1 virtual formats:
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz finite length

0 physical formats

Current device transportInfo:
CurrentTransportState: NO_MEDIA_PRESENT
CurrentTransportStatus: OK
CurrentSpeed: 1

Current device MediaInfo:
NrTracks: 1
MediaDuration: 0:02:41
CurrentURI: http://192.168.178.29:49152/audirvana/audio_42.wav
CurrentURIMetadata:

dc:titleRainman</dc:title>
dc:creatorOurs Samplus</dc:creator>
upnp:artistOurs Samplus</upnp:artist>
upnp:genre</upnp:genre>
upnp:albumArtURIhttp://resources.tidal.com/images/fc66cda3/377a/427e/abcf/e92683bd8a1c/640x640.jpg</upnp:albumArtURI>
upnp:albumOne Day One Beat</upnp:album>
upnp:originalTrackNumber3</upnp:originalTrackNumber>
upnp:classobject.item.audioItem.musicTrack</upnp:class>
http://192.168.178.29:49152/audirvana/audio_42.wav

nextURI: http://192.168.178.29:49152/audirvana/audio_43.wav
nextURIMetadata: <DIDL-Lite xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:upnp="urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/upnp/" xmlns="urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/DIDL-Lite/" xmlns:dlna="urn:schemas-dlna-org:metadata-1-0/">
Operache Ours Samplus Ours Samplus http://resources.tidal.com/images/fc66cda3/377a/427e/abcf/e92683bd8a1c/640x640.jpg One Day One Beat 24 object.item.audioItem.musicTrack http://192.168.178.29:49152/audirvana/audio_43.wav
PlayMedium: NETWORK
RecordMedium: NOT_IMPLEMENTED
WriteStatus: NOT_IMPLEMENTED

Current transport actions:

Current device AVT service description:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 1 0 DMR-1.51 MS_DigitalMediaDeviceClass_DMR_V001 MediaDevices MicrochipCE2CY920_0xBD VEN_14E7&DEV_0001&REV_01 Multimedia.DMR QPlay:2.1 SeekOnPaused urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1 KEF LSX KEF http://www.kef.com/ LSX SP3994 94 http://www.kef.com/ 841715023383 uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715023383 123810928305 image/jpeg 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.jpg image/jpeg 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.jpg image/png 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.png image/png 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.png urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl /RenderingControl/desc.xml /RenderingControl/ctrl /RenderingControl/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ConnectionManager:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:ConnectionManager /ConnectionManager/desc.xml /ConnectionManager/ctrl /ConnectionManager/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:AVTransport /AVTransport/desc.xml /AVTransport/ctrl /AVTransport/evt urn:schemas-tencent-com:service:QPlay:1 urn:tencent-com:serviceId:QPlay /QPlay/desc.xml /QPlay/ctrl http://192.168.178.38

Current device RootDevice description:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 1 0 DMR-1.51 MS_DigitalMediaDeviceClass_DMR_V001 MediaDevices MicrochipCE2CY920_0xBD VEN_14E7&DEV_0001&REV_01 Multimedia.DMR QPlay:2.1 SeekOnPaused urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1 KEF LSX KEF http://www.kef.com/ LSX SP3994 94 http://www.kef.com/ 841715023383 uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715023383 123810928305 image/jpeg 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.jpg image/jpeg 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.jpg image/png 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.png image/png 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.png urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl /RenderingControl/desc.xml /RenderingControl/ctrl /RenderingControl/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ConnectionManager:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:ConnectionManager /ConnectionManager/desc.xml /ConnectionManager/ctrl /ConnectionManager/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:AVTransport /AVTransport/desc.xml /AVTransport/ctrl /AVTransport/evt urn:schemas-tencent-com:service:QPlay:1 urn:tencent-com:serviceId:QPlay /QPlay/desc.xml /QPlay/ctrl http://192.168.178.38

UPnP devices found : 1
Device #0: ID 0x0 : KEF LSX
UID: uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715023383
Location: http://192.168.178.38:8080/description.xml
Manufacturer: KEF
Model name: SP3994

Local

Max. memory for audio buffers: 5120MB

Local Audio Engine: CoreAudio
Actual I/O buffer frame size: 0

Local devices found : 2
Device #0: ID 0x3d Ausgang (integriert)
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Model UID: AppleHDA:100
UID: AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,1:0
Model name: Apple Inc. Ausgang (integriert)
Device #1: ID 0x2d Microsoft Teams Audio
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
Model UID: MSLoopbackDriverDevice_ModelUID
UID: MSLoopbackDriverDevice_UID
Model name: Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Teams Audio

Chromecast

Chromecast devices found : 0

Reduce the pre-load cache to 2000MB.

Can you please add some screenshots of this behavior so I can reproduce it on my side?

Hi Everyone,

Since the last update 2.0 The software is no longer working correctly with the KEF LSX. Some songs just do not want to play. For my part I am using Qobuz.

Hi @Geo08,

Can you send us a copy of the “Debug Info” when you have this issue? You can get it in Audirvana Settings>My account

Note: By clicking on the Debug Info button, Audirvana automatically copies all its content, all you have to do is paste it in response to this message

Please find below all the related information.

Thank you for your help.

Audirvana Studio 2.0.0 (20000)

macOS Version 13.0 (assemblage 22A380) with 16GB physical RAM

Connected account of : Geoffrey Ortega

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

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

UPSAMPLING:
r8brain not in use
r8brain filter parameters
Bandwidth = 99.5%
Stop band attenuation 218dB
Phase linear

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

LIBRARY SETTINGS:
Sync list: 0 folders
iTunes/Music library synchronization: not synchronized
Library database path: /Users/Geoffrey/Library/Application Support/Audirvana/AudirvanaDatabase.sqlite

Remote Control server:
Listening on 127.0.0.1 on port 52693

ACTIVE STREAMING SERVICES
Qobuz: Connected as Qobuz Studio

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

Active method: UPnP

Preferred device: [UPnP] KEF KEF LSX Model UID:KEF SP3994 UID:uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715117785

Selected device:KEF LSX
Manufacturer: KEF
Model name: SP3994
Model UID: KEF SP3994
UID: uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715117785
UPnP device at http://192.168.1.39:8080/description.xml
ID 0x0

4 available sample rates up to 96000Hz
44100
48000
88200
96000

Volume control: Yes

MQA capability
Auto-detect MQA devices: Yes
Not a MQA device, user set to not MQA
DSD capability: Unhandled

Device audio channels
Preferred stereo channels L:0 R:1
Channel bitmap: Ox3, layout:
Channel 0 mapped to 0
Channel 1 mapped to 1

UPnP set capabilities
Maximum PCM frequency set: 96000Hz
Maximum PCM bitdepth set: 24
Not native DSD capable
Avoid RAW PCM streams: Yes

UPnP / DLNA supported protocols :
http-get::audio/l16;rate=44100;channels=1:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get:
:audio/l16;rate=44100;channels=2:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get::audio/l16;rate=48000;channels=1:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get:
:audio/l16;rate=48000;channels=2:dlna.org_pn=lpcm
http-get::audio/mpeg:dlna.org_pn=mp3
http-get:
:audio/x-ms-wma:dlna.org_pn=wmabase
http-get::audio/x-ms-wma:dlna.org_pn=wmafull
http-wavetunes:
:audio/x-ms-wma:*
http-get::audio/vnd.dlna.adts:dlna.org_pn=aac_adts
http-get:
:audio/vnd.dlna.adts:dlna.org_pn=aac_adts_320
http-get::audio/mp4:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso
http-get:
:audio/3gpp:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso
http-get::audio/mp4:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso_320
http-get:
:audio/3gpp:dlna.org_pn=aac_iso_320
http-get::audio/3gpp2:
http-get::audio/wav:
http-get::audio/x-wav:
http-get::audio/flac:
http-get::audio/x-flac:
http-get::audio/x-aiff:
http-get::audio/aiff:
http-get::audio/vorbis:
http-get::audio/x-vorbis:
http-get::audio/x-vorbis+ogg:
http-get::audio/ogg:
http-get::audio/x-ogg:
http-get::audio/m4a:
http-get::audio/x-m4a:
DLNA 1.5: Yes
Native Gapless playback: Yes
Universal Gapless playback active: No
Missing events workaround: No
Can play native DSD: No
Volume Control: dB
Number of channels: 2
Use as stereo device only: No

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 0x0 0 channels starting at 0
8 virtual formats:
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 88.2kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer 88.2kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 96kHz finite length
2 ch Non-mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer 96kHz finite length

0 physical formats

Current device transportInfo:
CurrentTransportState: NO_MEDIA_PRESENT
CurrentTransportStatus: OK
CurrentSpeed: 1

Current device MediaInfo:
NrTracks: 0
MediaDuration: 0:03:59
CurrentURI:
CurrentURIMetadata:
nextURI:
nextURIMetadata:
PlayMedium: NETWORK
RecordMedium: NOT_IMPLEMENTED
WriteStatus: NOT_IMPLEMENTED

Current transport actions:

Current device AVT service description:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 1 0 DMR-1.51 MS_DigitalMediaDeviceClass_DMR_V001 MediaDevices MicrochipCE2CY920_0xBD VEN_14E7&DEV_0001&REV_01 Multimedia.DMR QPlay:2.1 SeekOnPaused urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1 KEF LSX KEF http://www.kef.com/ LSX SP3994 94 http://www.kef.com/ 841715117785 uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715117785 123810928305 image/jpeg 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.jpg image/jpeg 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.jpg image/png 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.png image/png 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.png urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl /RenderingControl/desc.xml /RenderingControl/ctrl /RenderingControl/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ConnectionManager:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:ConnectionManager /ConnectionManager/desc.xml /ConnectionManager/ctrl /ConnectionManager/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:AVTransport /AVTransport/desc.xml /AVTransport/ctrl /AVTransport/evt urn:schemas-tencent-com:service:QPlay:1 urn:tencent-com:serviceId:QPlay /QPlay/desc.xml /QPlay/ctrl http://192.168.1.39

Current device RootDevice description:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 1 0 DMR-1.51 MS_DigitalMediaDeviceClass_DMR_V001 MediaDevices MicrochipCE2CY920_0xBD VEN_14E7&DEV_0001&REV_01 Multimedia.DMR QPlay:2.1 SeekOnPaused urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1 KEF LSX KEF http://www.kef.com/ LSX SP3994 94 http://www.kef.com/ 841715117785 uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715117785 123810928305 image/jpeg 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.jpg image/jpeg 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.jpg image/png 48 48 24 /BCO_device_sm_icon.png image/png 120 120 24 /BCO_device_lrg_icon.png urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:RenderingControl /RenderingControl/desc.xml /RenderingControl/ctrl /RenderingControl/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ConnectionManager:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:ConnectionManager /ConnectionManager/desc.xml /ConnectionManager/ctrl /ConnectionManager/evt urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:AVTransport /AVTransport/desc.xml /AVTransport/ctrl /AVTransport/evt urn:schemas-tencent-com:service:QPlay:1 urn:tencent-com:serviceId:QPlay /QPlay/desc.xml /QPlay/ctrl http://192.168.1.39

UPnP devices found : 2
Device #0: ID 0x0 : [TV] Samsung The Frame (43)
UID: uuid:f6897b7b-d75b-4419-9336-a5caeaf45c17
Location: http://192.168.1.28:9197/dmr
Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics
Model name: QE43LS03RAUXXC
Device #1: ID 0x0 : KEF LSX
UID: uuid:5f9ec1b3-ed59-1900-4530-841715117785
Location: http://192.168.1.39:8080/description.xml
Manufacturer: KEF
Model name: SP3994

Local

Max. memory for audio buffers: 10934MB

Local Audio Engine: CoreAudio
Actual I/O buffer frame size: 0

Local devices found : 2
Device #0: ID 0x4e Haut-parleurs MacBook Pro
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Model UID: Speaker
UID: BuiltInSpeakerDevice
Model name: Apple Inc. Haut-parleurs MacBook Pro
Device #1: ID 0x31 Microsoft Teams Audio
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
Model UID: MSLoopbackDriverDevice_ModelUID
UID: MSLoopbackDriverDevice_UID
Model name: Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Teams Audio

Chromecast

Chromecast devices found : 0

Can you disable this option in the audio output settings and try again

Already tried. I tried again but it is not working. It Seems some sort of issue with the stream. because some albums are working fine, but other stops at 4-5 seconds of playing.

Do they have something in common like sample rate?

Indeed one is 96khz (and stoping) and the other 48 kHz (and working fine) But KEF has given LSX to work with 96kHz and it was working on the previous software version. Should I turn the frequency lower?

You can try this yes. The issue is probably coming from the KEF since it may have an issue to play WAV tracks at higher frequency than 48 Khz. You can try it by yourself using their app if you have a WAV file higher than 48 Khz.

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