Re: Bad sound in Windows Media Player

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From: Grant (l4wf92h302_at_sneakemail.com)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:56:04 GMT

"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
news:eIZ1q06FEHA.3856@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> /Grant/ said:
>
> > I've had this problem for a couple months now. All sound in WMP sounds like
its
> > coming out of blown speakers, with lots of static, and the bass drownding
out
> > the vocals. It sounds horrible. It happens with all audio and video
formats
> > (MP3, WMA. MPEG, AVI, WMV, ASF, etc). The same files play fine with Winamp
and
> > other media players I have installed, so the problem is not the files, my
> > soundcard, or speakers.
> >
> > So far I have tried:
> > - checking equalizer is turned off
> > - making sure SRS Wow and quiet mode are off
> > - maked sure environment/EQ settings for my sound card are turned off
> > - reinstalled WMP
> > - checked for soundcard driver updates (there were none)
> > - ran windows update
> > - googled plenty for the problem but found no solutions so far
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I can try to fix the sound in
WMP?
>
> Check here...
> http://WWW.NWLINK.COM/~zachd/pss/pss.html
>
> --
> For most XP answers and tweaks...
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> http://dougknox.com http://aumha.org
> http://support.microsoft.com

Thanks for the tip. Unregistering and renaming l3codecx.ax seems to have fixed
the problem.

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