foobar2000: WASAPI on Windows7

Posted on May 1st 2009 by pieceofsummer.

Looking at Google Analytics I’ve found out that somebody came to this site looking for solution of WASAPI issue. Well, maybe it should be here :)

On builds before 7068 WASAPI was working as expected. But all newer builds (up to RC1 7100) cause it to throw “unrecoverable playback error: could not open device 88890020″.
I don’t know what exactly does it mean, but I know how to fix it. The default 1000 ms buffer size does not fit for some reason, so you should decrease it – 500 (and less) ms buffer is ok. Note that this number could vary for different hardware.

Well, maybe it’s not a perfect solution, but it does work for now!

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 comments

  1. Nadine on May 3rd, 2009 at 01:43

    Onload of page my antivirus put alert, check pls.
    Nadine

  2. pieceofsummer on May 3rd, 2009 at 16:44

    Hmm… What antivirus have you got and what exactly did it say?

  3. creezalird on June 5th, 2009 at 18:41

    on my window 7 build 7100…i’ve no problem at all with wasapi..

  4. pieceofsummer on June 6th, 2009 at 23:55

    creezalird, this problem is hardware-specific. In some cases everything might be ok.
    And there’s already a new version of WASAPI plugin, which fixes a lot of problems.

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