Hi Kent,
Internet streams don't produce dropouts so it's definitely the streaming from a usb device causing problems.
I too have a Samsung SSD with USB 3.0 adapter which I also swapped for a different adapter thinking that it could be the culprit.
I forgot to mention that specific albums on my SSD caused Moode 9.0.4 to hang so far.
I found 2 albums of which I'm sure but there could be more.
Playing those same albums from my SSD on my Linux pc gave no such problems.
And as I mentioned before the SSD works flawlessly on Moode 8.3.9.
So most likely Moode 9 has problems with my SSD because internet streams work perfectly and the DAC (which is a SMSL D6S btw) works perfectly on my pc using USB.
But why Moode 8.3.9 doesn't have this problem with EXACTLY the same hardware is a mystery to me.
If the problem is external to Moode 9 then clearly Moode 8 ignores this 'problem'.
The only other thing I can think of is a different setting in Moode 9 somehow, but as far as I can tell it's set up the exact same way as Moode 8.
Internet streams don't produce dropouts so it's definitely the streaming from a usb device causing problems.
I too have a Samsung SSD with USB 3.0 adapter which I also swapped for a different adapter thinking that it could be the culprit.
I forgot to mention that specific albums on my SSD caused Moode 9.0.4 to hang so far.
I found 2 albums of which I'm sure but there could be more.
Playing those same albums from my SSD on my Linux pc gave no such problems.
And as I mentioned before the SSD works flawlessly on Moode 8.3.9.
So most likely Moode 9 has problems with my SSD because internet streams work perfectly and the DAC (which is a SMSL D6S btw) works perfectly on my pc using USB.
But why Moode 8.3.9 doesn't have this problem with EXACTLY the same hardware is a mystery to me.
If the problem is external to Moode 9 then clearly Moode 8 ignores this 'problem'.
The only other thing I can think of is a different setting in Moode 9 somehow, but as far as I can tell it's set up the exact same way as Moode 8.
