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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.
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.