Why does my CD player sound like crap on my pc??

M

mike

So a little bit of a story....I have this Celeron 600 machine that I have
used for about a year....just a cheap piece of junk machine....but it has a
nice CD/DVD burner in it. A Plextor 712A with the latest firmware. It's
worked flawlessly for the 6 months I've had it.

Well, recently my harddrive died. I went and got a new one and spent the
last week reinstalling everything....well I went to rip some music for a mix
CD I was making and to my surprise it sounded like crap....I first tried
RealPlayer and had it play the audio as it was ripping and I could tell
instantly by the way the it sounded that it wasn't ripping right for some
reason. Then I tried another app and that also sounded like crap.

So I decided to try and just play a CD using Windows Media Player and that
also sounded like crap. Bass-y, static, and sometimes even playing too slow.

Then I tried playing/ripping with Wavelab 5.01 and everything played and
ripped perfectly.

anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on? Everything installed on
this machine is the same as it was before my hd crashed and I have found an
app (Wavelap) that can play and rip and everything sounds great. But using
WMP or RealPlayer even to just play a CD sounds like crap.

The CD burner is a Master on the 2nd controller all by itself. The hd is a
master on the first controller all by itself. I'm using WinXP SP2 and the
latest RealPlayer and WMP.

mike

PS remove the x in my email address if you want to respond directly.
 
R

Rich Barry

Mike, it might just be a matter of updating or reinstalling your Audio
Drivers. Depending on what kind of Sound chip or PCI
Card you have in your system. Go to Control Panel>Sound and Audio
Devices>Hardware and check on your Audio Codecs and drivers.
 
M

mike

Mike, it might just be a matter of updating or reinstalling your Audio
Drivers. Depending on what kind of Sound chip or PCI
Card you have in your system. Go to Control Panel>Sound and Audio
Devices>Hardware and check on your Audio Codecs and drivers.

I have really nice soundcard.....an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2492 with the
latest drivers.

Umm....check my audio codecs for looked for what exactly? That they are the
latest?

Oh you did just give me an idea.....Control Panel\Sounds and Audio Devices
there are choices for Sound playback and recording default device after
installing my sound card these were still set to Crystal SoundFusion CS4281
and I changed them to "M-Audio Delta AP Multi"

I have no ideas what the Crystal SoundFusion is...maybe the motherboards
build in sound chip....and there are other choices of;

M-Audio Delta AP 1/2
and
M-Audio Delta AP S/PDIF
and
M-Audio Delta AP Mon. Mixer

I should probably dig through the docs and figure out the difference
between M-Audio Delta AP Multi, 1/2, and Mon. Mixer

mike
 
M

mike

Mike, it might just be a matter of updating or reinstalling your Audio
Drivers. Depending on what kind of Sound chip or PCI
Card you have in your system. Go to Control Panel>Sound and Audio
Devices>Hardware and check on your Audio Codecs and drivers.

One more bit of info as I sit here playing around with settings trying to
figure out what's wrong.

The clicks of static I hear exactly match the CD/DVD drive light.....

This CD I'm using to test right now, the first track begins silent and then
quietly fades in and I can hear this click/pops before the there is any
sound from the CD!

Then again, if I play or rip in Wavelab everything sounds fine! I'm going
to double check this right now. Crap, actually I'm wrong, I can hear the
static in Wavelab as well....it's just that it's a lot less often and if I
look at the drive light it's also flashing a lot less often.

strange
mike
 
G

Gary

You could have "enable digital playback" and the Celeron 600 might not
handle the stream very well and fall over?
 
M

mike

You could have "enable digital playback" and the Celeron 600 might not
handle the stream very well and fall over?

it was enabled but disabling it didn't make a difference.

I'm starting to wonder if the drive didn't start to go bad...It's only 2
months old

mike
 
T

Trent©

it was enabled but disabling it didn't make a difference.

I'm starting to wonder if the drive didn't start to go bad...It's only 2
months old

mike

Did you?...

1. Enable DMA for the cdrom?

2. Turn off the mainboard audio?


Have a nice one...

Trent

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M

mike

what software are you using to play the CD's? Also how are your speakers?
I've tried RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Wavelab, and a couple others
and it doesn't make a difference

I've also not been listening to speakers..but headphones directly out of the
soundcard

mike
 
M

mike

1. Enable DMA for the cdrom?

I *thought* I had....but when I looked at the setting for the millionth
time I noticed the following

For Device 0 on the Secondary IDE channel the following settings show up

Device Type: Auto Detection (not editable)
Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: PIO Mode

now I do assume that my CD/DVD burner, the Plextor PX-712A can do DMA but I
have not double checked
2. Turn off the mainboard audio?

I haven't done this yet......I have to get in the box and find the
jumper.....
it's a crappy motherboard and it can't be done through the bios...actually
it's a soup'd up crappy machine.....an eMachine

mike
 

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