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sound quality is ruined
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Posted by: earlond
Pardon my french, but something is ****ing up with my computer's sound quality. I use my computer for a lot of multimedia, from playing mp3s to DVDs, but something weird has been happening since I had my machine formatted and windows XP reinstalled: installing some software ruins the sound quality. All the noises get louder than the voices in the movies, and I can hardly hear the vocals in the mp3s. It sounds as if the background comes to the front and vice versa. Am I making any sense here?
Some programs that do that are RealOne and any DVD decoder such as WinDVD or Power DVD. If I play anything on any of those Softwares it will ruin the sound quality on all others, Windows Media and Winamp included. The only way to get it back to normal is by playing a music file on a free player I downloaded from download.com. That seems to overwrite something in here (a driver or a dll perhaps?) and then everything gets back to normal. I've already found two other people with the same problem, but no solution for it. Does anyone out there have any information on that please??
Posted by: The One
I no longer use RealOne, but I use Power DVD and used WinDVD in the past... They both use Windows settings, plus some extra stuff.
When windows is generating the frequency-level (like an equaliser) for the sound, it can be adjusted to provide optimum sound for different types of speakers. Of course... if you have standard two-speaker system and Windows generates a sound system for 5-speaker dolby-surround,... it Will sound different!
Right-click on your Volume/Speaker icon in the system-tray... click ADJUST VOLUME PROPERTIES
Then click on ADVANCED in the speaker settings section. Here you can choose the speaker setup... This very often causes the kind of effect you're encountering.
Hope it helps!
Posted by: earlond
Thanks for the tip but it doesn't really make any difference any of the settings i do that way. I realized something else instead though. The volume control shows the mute button for wave output ticked on. Obviously if it's on it should be tottaly mute, but when i tick it off the sound get's ruined again. And then when I click it back on it goes really mute. Again, the only way to fix it is by playing a song on that free player i have, and it will tick the button "mute" again, but everything starts playing ok after that.
It must be one of those weird windows xp bugs we hear about, I am almost formating my machine again, but i think that's too extreme for such a small problem. Do you know anything else that could help.
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