Can't play MP3s

[Alessandro Angeli [MVP::DigitalMedia]]

Doug wrote:

> question, I guess
> that music stored on a regular cd is already in analog
> format?

Music tracks on CDAs are digital: 16bits/44100Hz/stereo
LPCM, the very same data you get when you digitally rip the
tracks to WAV files. The drive mounts an audio DAC to output
an analog signal, similar to the DAC an analog sound card
mounts to output the analog signal from the digital data it
get via the PCI bus.

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Alessandro Angeli

<a.angeliATbiosysDOTnet>

[Roy G. Biv]

"Doug" <umdo...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:VHGWa.584474$ro6.13...@news2.calgary.shaw.ca:

> Hello to all, and really, a lot of thanks to all ahead of time who
> take the time with resect to this problem. It is quite the serious
> one, and I have no idea how to go about solving it, or even what could
> be causing it. I'll try to be very descriptive...for more details
> just ask:
>
> The Problem: I can't play MP3s clearly on ANY player, including
> winamp 2, 2.09, 2,9, 3, Windows Media Player, or RealPlayer. As a
> matter of fact I get bad quality on avi's as well, divx inclusive.
> What I mean by clearly is that if I'm playing a song lets say, the
> music is loud and clear, but the singers lyrics can hardly be heard.
> Basically, the song sounds as if it were recorded in a church where
> the echo would drown out any words in the song, and actually, this
> echo is there. It sounds really weird, and I must admit it's very
> hard to describe.
>
> The System: Pentium 200 Mhz, yes its old, but all worked fine 1 month
> ago (I've posted with regards to this problem before, but then when I
> thought it wen't away, it's back now...fresh after an all complete
> system reinstall), 32 megs or RAM. Like I said, it played mp3's fine
> 1 month ago, and I have a Pentium 133Mhz with 16 megs or RAM playes
> MP3s just fine!
>
> Actions taken up to now: as I stated, this problem occured before, and
> then went away again. It was suggested by a few that this problem
> could be caused by add-ware shipped with kazaa. When the problem
> again came back (2 days ago), I finally decided to re-format the
> entire system (fdisk, format ...the whole nine yards), then installed
> win95 and win 98 (clean and from scratch). After getting win98
> installed on the system, I installed the basic drivers for sound card,
> network adapter, video driver, and then tried winamp. And to my
> complete surprise, the same thing happens, the song/audio file, etc..
> playes really strange, with a sort of echo in the background with the
> lyrics drown out by the instrmentals (almost as if the "lyric layer"
> was decreased in volume while the "song layer" was increased in volume
> - if that's making any sense). Then I tried Windows Media Player 6.4,
> and the exact same thing occurs, can't play avi's, mp3... (didn't try
> other compressed audio formats). It does play cd's, but that of
> course is no surprise as playing cd format cd's isn't all that
> difficult for a cd-rom. I should also mention that when I play these
> songs on any player, my processor activity does not rise above 5%,
> thus eliminating the possibility that the old pentium is having
> problems keeping up with the decompression. Also, I was suspecting the
> sound card, but as already mentioned, I can play cd's just fine...
>
> Well, that's all I can think of which seems relevent for the time
> being... .
>
> Doug
>
>
>

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