Sound Device

Choose from the drop down menu the desired audio card to be used by the AlbumPlayer. You can also choose an audio card by a command-line option. See also the command-line option device.

ASIO Sound Device (Audiophile settings)

ASIO Support Enabled
For audiophiles it is possible to use an ASIO driver. When enabled the windows mixer is bypassed and it is possible to play "bitperfect". The normal audio driver is disabled. You can toggle ASIO also with a shortcut key. See also preferences page Key assignments. Choose an ASIO device from the drop down list.

ASIO channels
From this drop down list you can choose the channels to use supported by the current ASIO device. The channels are organised as stereo pairs. The last option in the list selects all channels to be used, which makes it possible to play multi-channel audio.

Control Panel
Using this button the control panel of the current ASIO driver will be shown. This does not work for all ASIO drivers in that case no window is shown and you have to manually start the control panel.

ASIO buffer size
You can choose preferred ASIO buffer size here. Settings can be done within the limits given by the ASIO driver. Sometimes the upper limit and lower limit is exactly the value specified in the ASIO driver control panel, so it is not possible to change it from the AlbumPlayer preferences. In that case change the buffer size at the ASIO driver control panel and press the button Reread Driver Settings.

Reread Driver Settings
Use this button when changes are made in the ASIO driver control panel and you want to apply them in the AlbumPlayer.

Note: When ASIO support is enabled, all DSP functions, equalizer and normalisation is disabled . Also crossfading can not be activated. This is the only way to achieve "bitperfect".

WinAmp DSP plugin
In this section you set the active Winamp DSP plugin. It is possible to use Winamp DSP plugins in the AlbumPlayer. Not all will work but a certain amount does. You just have to give it a try. You just install it in the AlbumPlayer installation directory in the sub-directory plugins. At AlbumPlayer start it will load the plugin into the list of the Active Winamp DSP plugin. For people having Winamp installed too, it also automatically reads from the plugin directory there.