AIR 3 beta for Windows

[Soniclife]

I gave this new version a try last night.  Previously in my system I was lucky to get through 10 mins of SD material before I either got very frequent drop outs, or the dreaded white noise.  There have been no hardware changes since I last tried, but my PC is now running windows 10 (clean install, not upgraded), and in the few hours I have been using it I have not noticed any stability problems.  I've only had it playing quietly in the other room so no sound quality observations, and I could have missed some drop outs, but it's never recovered from problems in the past once they have started.  I'm also using my PC for plenty of other things, not making any special allowance to try and get stability.

I have a win 8.1 laptop that had exactly the same problems as my desktop had, I'll try the new version on there later and see if that is also stable.

One thing I have noticed that I was not expecting, is that previously when pressing play or pause it would take ages for the music to start or stop, long enough to think something had gone wrong, now pausing is almost instant, and resuming is fairly quick.  It's gone from something that I found annoying to something that's perfectly fine.

If stability continues like this I will have to do SQ test, it was pointless before.