Re: wavOutWrite - nasty click

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I suspected that it was a sound driver issue. A friend who has a Dell Axim 3
has the sound-click problem and he tried getting latest drivers from the
Dell site...made no difference :( Interestingly, when he mutes the device
and plays a wav file he still gets the nasty clicking sound, the wav file
itself does not play (as you'd expect on a muted device). I guess this
confirms that it is a driver issue.

I'm convinced that if I tell customers of mine it's a driver bug on their
device I'll just get an angry response. I've already had one customer
asserting that it is only my software that exhibits these undesirable
noises.

Ho hum....what can you do?

Neil

"Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It's a problem with the audio driver. It's a known problem on some
> devices, and some got fixed with image updates from the OEM. Others are
> still that way (I've got a 3835 that still does it for example).
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> "Neil" <apollosoftware@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I'm using the standard wavOut APIs to play sounds on Pocket PC (2002 OS
>> and 2003 OS). On some devices my wav files sound fine...but on others
>> there is a nasty click (at beginning or end) associated with some of the
>> sound files. I've checked the actual wav files in a wav editor to see if
>> there are any spikes but they are all fine.
>>
>> Does anyone know what might be causing these audible clicks? They aren't
>> nice to listen to and are often louder than the actual sound file that is
>> being played.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Neil
>>
>
>


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