Rhys Goodwin

This is/was one of my blogs. Just a few bits and pieces - IT, woodwork, metalwork, electronics, DIY, technology articles and anything else I might be currently interested in and get around to documenting.

There might be some broken things because this site was converted roughly from Wordpress to jekyll.

My main area of interest these days is political party innovation which I’m building a project for at oneaction.nz

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I finally got around to fixing the auto play on start-up problem. The reason it took so long was because I was trying to perfect the auto restart option:

Sometimes when an AC3 file is played or something that takes control of the sound card SPDIFkeepAlive gets stopped. The auto restart option restarts playback every 3 seconds. This means that shortly after AC3 playback stops SPDIFKeepAlive resumes automatically.

Unfortunately I’ve still not got it working properly, at least not for me, depending on your sound card / driver you might get better results. But be warned, on my system after a random amount of time (~1 hour) I get a terrible noise produced by SpdifKeepAlive and I have to exit, hence I don’t use this feature! I’ll try to fix it sometime. I think I’ll need to use threading and play 2 files that continuously overlap.

You can download the new version at the bottom of the SPDIFKeepAlive Post

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