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why doesn't winamp sound so good?
by - 11/3/05 10:06 AMI've got Real Audio Player, JetAudio player, WMP, and Winamp. W/ the exception of WinAmp they all play quietly (very little background noise). Winamp, however, plays w/ a lot of annoying background noise, kind of a hiss-static noise that accompanies the music. The extra sound happens when the music happens. It's not a constant background thing but just when the music plays. It happens when listening to streams and files on my computer. I don't get it. The other players are quiet. What gives?
I've got an asus a7n8x MB and an asus g4 mx440 media card and an amd 2100+ cpu running xp pro.
thx.
Re: Bad sound
by - 11/3/05 10:26 AM In reply to: why doesn't winamp sound so good? byI think the problem lies with your motherboard's built-in sound. (You haven't mentioned any soundcard, and the MX440 is your videocard.) Installing the latest drivers and rebooting should solve the problem.
Go to the website for the manufacturer of your motherboard, and look for your model in their support/downloads section. Somewhere in there you will find the drivers for its built-in sound.
total recorder, maybe that's it?
by - 11/3/05 5:35 PM In reply to: Re: Bad sound byactually it's an nVIDIA nFORCE 2 driver but I'm using a Total Recorder driver because Total Recorder requires that I use its driver if/when I want to record streams.
Think that could be it? Guess I've got to do some fiddling... Seems strange that Total Recorder would put out an incompatible driver but stranger things have happened.
thx for your advice. seems logical that the problem wouldn't be winamp.
Pretty likely
by - 11/4/05 4:07 PM In reply to: total recorder, maybe that's it? byI would definitely suspect Total Recorder, or anything that tries to install *special drivers* for you.
background hiss, total recorder / winamp combination
by LisaO - 11/17/05 11:55 AM In reply to: total recorder, maybe that's it? byI use Total Recorder Pro as well and know the noise you have mentioned. I get that too. To 'Play' music without that background hiss go into your audio settings and direct playback via your sound card drivers. If you try to record with Total Recorder it will warn you to switch them back to the Total Recorder drivers before you can record so no biggie if you don't mind switching.
By using xmplay
http://support.xmplay.com/index.html
You won't have this issue. It's free, excellent sound and so far as I can tell no problems with Total Recorder drivers. I assume many other players would work without the hiss too.
Lisa
try changing the output
by melvindea - 11/20/05 3:04 PM In reply to: why doesn't winamp sound so good? byI had this problem, but I changed the output under options/preferences/plugins/output to waveOut instead of DirectSound and it fixed the problem. I think there are some hardware incompatibility problems in certain setups, and going backwards to waveOut is more reliable, although I think it might be less efficient and use up more CPU processor.
Re: output
by - 11/21/05 3:54 AM In reply to: try changing the output by melvindeaWhile changing the output may cure the symptom, it won't fix the problem, the problem being bad/wrong soundcard drivers. Switching output like this, you may get better sound quality; you may occasionally make the computer crash when playing MP3's as well.
Total Recorder and Direct Sound
by Ellien - 11/21/05 5:25 AM In reply to: Re: output byYes, this hiss may be related to Total Recorder (at least it was in my case). I was told that the Total Recorder driver does not always go along well with Direct Sound, so chaning the output to WaveOut instead of direct sound can be a solution if you want to continue to use Total Recorder.
re: try changing the output
by theMezz - 12/27/05 6:25 AM In reply to: try changing the output by melvindeaThat also worked for me.
Sounds much better- - thanks
YOU'VE FIXED THE PROBLEM OF THE CENTURY
by mahurshi - 1/23/06 11:12 PM In reply to: try changing the output by melvindeaThanks a Ton!
Surprised to hear that!
by jahan - 12/2/05 9:31 PM In reply to: why doesn't winamp sound so good? byI recently installed WinAmp (since a trojan in a WMV file messed around with WMP and it kept crashing), and I've found that the sound quality with WinAmp is actually better. I also prefer the way it organises media, and the visualisations are heaps better than WMP.
It may be worth mentioning that this is the 2nd trojan to come through while downloading media content. Google search revealed that there is a known issue with trojans in WMP with WMV files, but the first trojan came through while downloading MP3s. There doesn't seem to be any nfo supporting the existence of infected MP3s, but it happened to me.
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