I think I'm finally ready to concede defeat on trying to get the NV-MP Music Port working properly. Seems like everything I try just leads to more problems. Currently problems include-
Can't get it to work at all with sound card configured to 7.1 for 4 sources. The KP claims it's playing but nothing comes out of soundcard. This is a new development as of this evening and is frustrating because this had sort of been working before. I say sort of because I was getting audio overlap on all 4 NV-MP sources (i.e. If I was playing music on source 3 it also came through on Sources 4-6). This overlap didn't seem to happen when I did the source audio test from inside the config utility. I had to drop back to a 2-speaker stereo config on my sound card to get it to output audio tonight. However, I also am having problem with Pandora... when I select a station it begins to play but only has audio for about 4 seconds then goes silent, even though the KP still shows it as playing. I'm about ready to pull my hair out and am giving up on it.
So at this point my options are to accept the fact that my keypads won't be used to control sources and won't get metadata, just use the PC to stream Pandora from a browser and live with it, or drop even more money on either the MPS4 or the MPS4-E. I've read the entire thread on the MPS4 here at CT and see that some of you have had some problems with it. If you previously had experience with the NV-MP, how would you characterize the reliability/stability/usability of it compared to the new Music Port?
And if I go that route, should I pay the extra for the Elite? I don't necessarily need the extra HD space at this time and have no interest in the video out capability, but still wonder if its extra features and larger drive would be worth the extra $.
Can't get it to work at all with sound card configured to 7.1 for 4 sources. The KP claims it's playing but nothing comes out of soundcard. This is a new development as of this evening and is frustrating because this had sort of been working before. I say sort of because I was getting audio overlap on all 4 NV-MP sources (i.e. If I was playing music on source 3 it also came through on Sources 4-6). This overlap didn't seem to happen when I did the source audio test from inside the config utility. I had to drop back to a 2-speaker stereo config on my sound card to get it to output audio tonight. However, I also am having problem with Pandora... when I select a station it begins to play but only has audio for about 4 seconds then goes silent, even though the KP still shows it as playing. I'm about ready to pull my hair out and am giving up on it.
So at this point my options are to accept the fact that my keypads won't be used to control sources and won't get metadata, just use the PC to stream Pandora from a browser and live with it, or drop even more money on either the MPS4 or the MPS4-E. I've read the entire thread on the MPS4 here at CT and see that some of you have had some problems with it. If you previously had experience with the NV-MP, how would you characterize the reliability/stability/usability of it compared to the new Music Port?
And if I go that route, should I pay the extra for the Elite? I don't necessarily need the extra HD space at this time and have no interest in the video out capability, but still wonder if its extra features and larger drive would be worth the extra $.