You can fine all Sound Card related information's in our Sound Card Special and Sound Card FAQ. We also recommend the TECH INFO from RME (courtesy of RME) playing WMA Files If you want to play WMA Files with BPM Studio, please make sure you have the latest Version of BPM Studio and the MS Media 9 Encoder SDK installed. You can find the MS Media Encoder SDK here. performance problems Deactivate the USB controller if not required by any other software. USB causes an extreme high Resource consumption by frequent polling. System enhancement / installation of a new Harddisk BPM Studio automatically seeks on the following drives by loading a track, so if the tracks were stored at C:\MP3 and now has been moved to a (maybe bigger) Hard disk D:\MP3, the File Archive will be automatically updated. This only works if you copy the complete directory structure of the original Hard disk and the new Hard disk is not mounted as removable drive. some error messages and program terminations with AMD processors? These problems are caused by the external processor cache. Please disable the external cache in the BIOS settings if the program runs unstable. Why does my ASUS motherboard not work with BPM Studio ? Check if the jumper "sound on board" is deactivated. See the motherboard's manual for the position of the jumper. BPM Studio becomes slower? BPM Studio becomes slower during the run time? Look at the directory of Windows and check, if the follow entries are in the file SYSTEM.INI: [vcache] MaxFileCache=8192 MinFileCache=8192 Linux/Mac version of BPM Studio Is there a Linux/Mac version of BPM Studio? No, because we use the sound card drivers of Windows. BPM Studio and the Denon 2000F remote control Is it possible to use the Denon2000F remote control with BPM Studio? No. They are two completly different systems. The BPM Studio software can only be controlled with our remote controls which are available for the professional version. BPM Studio Demo Version Why does my test version shutdown without announcement? This is no bug. The test versions of BPM Studio are shutdown automatically after 30 or 60 minutes. What is MP3? MP3 is a compression algorithm developed by the Fraunhofer IIS in Germany which functions on the basis of MPEG picture data compression and compresses audio data to approx. 1/10 of its original size, whereby the frequency scale and noise separation remain much the same. Nowadays several thousand song titles can be stored in MP3 format on a modern computer. What is an ID3-Tag? The ID3-tag is a block of information written behind the actual music data in the MP3 file. 30 characters can be used for the artist, the title of the piece, the album name and a commentary, along with 4 characters for the year of publication. Clear ID indicates the style of music. What is DN 2000 F? DN 2000 F is a dual CD player produced by the company Denon which was specially developed for DJs. It offers the facility of pitching audio CDs and exact setting of starting points (cues) using a special search function. This means that songs can be started in 0.01s. What is Pitch? Using the pitch function you can alter the playing speed of a song. What is Pitch Bend? The pitch bend function causes a brief alteration in the playing speed of a song, similar to speeding up or slowing down a record.