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You know I had read about the Windows 8 on jplay's site as well but never went looking for it. The link you provided was all I needed to get going. And I have to say for the First time I am actually looking forward to a new Windows. The difference in sound is amazing. Thanks!
Actually, Linux is fairly easy to set up for bit-perfect playback. Since there is less info out there about music programs for Linux (compared to Foobar or J River for example), it might take a bit of poking around to get the set up parameters correct. Just like Windows takes a bit of message to get bit perfect (WASAPI / ASIO set up, picking the right player, tweaking Windows features to free up processing power / memory usage), installing the right player and making a tweak or two (actually fewer tweaks than necessary in Windows 7) gets you bit-perfect audio in Linux pretty quickly. I'm using Ubuntu, and from inserting the install disk to bit-perfect output was about 45 minutes. EDIT: by the way, if you heard "processing" with Linux Mint, you were likely running the signal through Pulse Audio. That's not necessarily a bad thing, unless you're trying for bit-perfect playback. You can configure players like Quadlibet and Deadbeef to bypass Pulse Audio, go directly to the ALSA sound system, and use ALSA for bit-perfect playback to your external DAC or internal sound card.
To shut down win 8, you have to hover the mouse over the start button until a sub menu appears, click setting, then click the power button at the bottom of the sub screen to the right, then click shut down!!! How the hell does burying the shut down button two level deep in the setting menu pass usability testing at MicroSucks???Unbelievable!!!Duc
I have spent hours trying to get JPlay to work. Posted in their forum and received answers but it still won't play. It does load the tracks. Not very user friendly in my opinion, like the old DOS programs of 20 years ago. One issue is that I have to run it as an adminstrator even though I am the adminstrator. Don't know why. I'm not a computer expert that's for sure. Maybe someone has some suggestions. Will try the Classic program.
... or you can Alt-F4 Small price to pay for the sound quality.
Yes, it is very purist. However you can apparently use other software to load into it like J River, etc if you need an interface. Hope you get it figured out.