Hd not recognized on dac...iTunes, pc, USB problem

HD Tracks? use J River....I hear from some folks that iTunes will now play FLAC files, but what they are saying does not give me a lot of confidence...To really maximize my computer sound, I had to ditch iTunes and reload, yes reload all of my cd's into J River. Yes is was a pain (700 cd's) but it was worth it. Maybe iTunes will become Hi Fi someday, but it isn't now. All of the above is just my opinion on what worked for me.

Thankyou all for the help!

With it, i was able to make it all work!!

Still with foobar (even though i don't like the user experience). i changed the playback device settings, uploaded flac plug-in, wasapi and KS.with wasapi, i reduced the buffer to 500ms but I also changed the playback setting to play the songs from RAM. Ialso increased foobar's priority as a process to high.

working great. However no album art, no easy browsing,... which iis why i may try jriver. Is there anyway to import my itunes library in jriver? my itunes consists of Apple lossless formatted files.

By the way, itunes does play Apple lossless at 24/96 but it downsampkes it because my dac only recognizes a 44.1 stream.

SInce my current dac doesn't play 88.2, im using r8brain to convert 88.2 to 96, it does force me to go via an extra painful wav conversion.Are there better solutions out there? I may otherwise buy the MF v-link to same me from the hazzle.

I use a PC with XP and Foobar2K with Kernel Streaming plug-in. Never have any problems with 192 tracks and I run it for days on end, breaking in products.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio