RE: Distorted sound from WMP 11

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Windows 7 is Windows Vista. Get ready for another Microsoft ripoff.

"Derf McKensy" wrote:

Perhaps it's time for a new computer anyway. I hope Windows 7 is better than
Vista.

"Vincent" wrote:

Some screen shots can be found here:
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/VistaTweak.htm




"Derf McKensy" wrote:

Wow, I didn't realize I was that far out of it. Could we start with simple
like when you say "playback device", to what exactly are you refering to?
And I never saw anything called an "Enhancement Tab" nor do I know what DSP
refers to.

The Creative instalation package provides what they call an "Audio Console"
from which I can adjust many of the audio setting including speakers.
Presently, I have it set for 4/1 speakers because I use the mini-speakers
built into the monitor for a lot of generic stuff but when I play music, I
switch on my other speaker set which consists of another pair of desktop
speakers that I have plugged into the second speaker jack on the card. The
second set of speakers has a sub-woofer and those speakers don't sound so
bad. But the mini=speakers in my monitor sound horible just like you were
pumping way too much bass into them.

The weird part is that if I close WMP and open the Creative Media Player, I
can play any of my music and it sounds perfect.

"Vincent" wrote:

A simple check is to open the properties of the playback device in the sound
panel.
Check the ‘Enhancement’ tab, disabling all DSP might be an enhancement.
Also check the ‘configure’ button and check the speakers setings.

You might try an audio editing program and check if the recordings are
clipping.


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"Derf McKensy" wrote:

This is a complicated question that I hope has a simple answer. My computer
is five years old now but I am hesitant to replace it just yet for several
reasons. The biggest being money but also because I built this thing five
years ago and it can still stand up to a lot of the over-the-counter PCs
available today. But I've always had some issues installing my sound card.
If I try to install some old Roxio software for burning DVDs and CDs, I get
some terrible errors and reboots as I keep getting popups that say my
sound-device in not fucntioning or is not installed. Yet, when I go to the
device manager, it is there and seems happy.

This happened before when MS came out with WMP 9&10. Each time, I try to
use the MS WMP but after so many errors, I often give up and just use the
Creative Media Player for all my music because it works well without issues.
So, consiquently, most of the scads of music, (all legal music), was recorded
or ripped with the Creative Player. The problem occurs when I try to use WMP
to play the music I ripped with tthe Creative Player. It sounds very
distorted as if there is way too much bass and sometimes, it just crashes in
the middle of the songs.

So I tried downloading and installing the very latest drivers for my sound
card and I think that has helped with the crashing issue, at least so far.
But I still have the distorted music problem. I have gone into all the
options that I could find and reset everything to the defaults. I can't
think of anything else I can do yet so that's why I'm searching for help.

I like MS software but I'm a cheap-scape so I have some really old stuff I
bought as a student for the better price like MS Office 2000 & Visual Studio
6.0. I would like to use WMP exclusively but I need it to work or at least
sound better.

Here are the specs for my five-year-old box...

Genuine Intel D875PBZ w/OB gigabit LAN
native SATA 150 support
DR400 RAM w/800 MHz bus speed
3.2E Prescott w/1 MB sec cache & Hyper-Threading
(2) Hitachi Deskstar 80/8/7500 SATA drives
running in a RAID-0 array
2 GBs Corsair Extreme 2.5 CAS RAM
SoundBlaster Audigy-2 ZS Gamer edition
8x AGP Asus V9570 FX5700 128 MB video
DH20A4P optical DVD burner
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