My settings in musicbee are shown in the attached picture. Perhaps the digital data that youtube and spotify sends over is not of a high enough bandwidth/bitrate to stress the DAC? I imagine if it is an issue with a DAC being able to competently decode the data, it would be the onboard speaker DAC because the fiio e10k just acts as a digital passthrough AFAIK. Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. Also, no such issues in musicbee using RCA inputs into the speaker.

Although I think we can rule out interferance given it works fine outside of musicbee. I am using a dedicated coaxial cable (after using just a standard RCA cable and assuming that was the issue). The issue persists in directsound as well as Wasapi (shared or exclusive). Some songs the crackling is barely perceptible, but seems to occur due to an overload in the treble region. Musicbee is a streaming music service like Apple music, Pandora, etc. The free digital media player and media library application have the ability. Issue seems indifferent to file type, FLACS and mp3s being the types I have tested. MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find, and play music files on your computer, on portable devices, and on the web. Music played on youtube/spotify have no such issues, tested with the same songs. Hello I was hoping to get some help with this issue, I hope this is the right sub-forum for it.įirstly, the speakers work just fine outside of musicbee. Spotify is the popular music streaming service that give users access to a massive library of music without buying and downloading an individual track, but is not available worldwide.

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