MP3 playback in win2000 (What the hell is going on)?

[Easty]

Thought everything was running perfect in win2k. So I decided to play some of my MP3's, Damn! Sounds like an old disko jockey has remixed all my tunes. regardless of the player used (winamp, media player, others) The musik starts of fine then the lead voice goes very quite and then the whole tune sounds like it's being played under water... Is this the Aureal Vortex 2 driver? I've tried messing with all the settings in the multimedia system settings with no luck.

Anyone shed any light on this problem.. If not at least can someone send me some insults..for a letter I'm writing with the destination address, custservice@aureal.com


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Ath 650,G4MAX,MSI Mobo, Vortex 2, Maxtor 6880+, 128 (100)

[Easty]

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How about installing the NT4 drivers? Or are these probably a lesser species than the intergrated installation drivers?

[DentyCracker]

Get a SB Live! j/k
Try reinstalling the driver. If this doesn't work then re download the latest drivers or ones that are known to work with your soundcard (I'm not too familiar with aureal drivers) Liks Gurm says don't even bother with NT4 drivers they are icky at best and at worst can fuxxor your system. This happens only with mp3s or with wav as well, just curious. The mp3 codec may have been damaged, could remove and reinstall mediaplayer.

[Easty]

Deleting Media player in NT5 is not as straight forward as win98..there's no item for it int he add and remove progs.. I've found where I can remove the codecs... Does winamp still use the MS codecs? And yes to your Question all my MP3 players do the same!! Think i'll copy all the files from another machine over!!

[The Rock]

Even with an SB Live, there are some MP3 problems. Some MP3s I have crash winamp. They don't lock my machine, they just kill Winamp. They work fine if you use Win2k's media player, but that's junk for MP3's. Seems like a Winamp problem, even with the latest version.

The Rock

[DentyCracker]

No such problems with Win2K and SBLive! for me though. The systems I have it on use Sonique which plays most anything.

[The Rock]

Denty:

Yeah that's why I figure it's a Winamp problem, maybe with certain compression codecs. Like I said, Media Player plays them fine, but with no EQ and no playlists, it's kinda useless.

The Rock

[fds]

That's odd, I nearly always have WinAmp running in the background, and never had any problems playing mp3's under Windows 2000. Not even with Beta 3, RC1, RC2 or RC3, and of course not with the final build.

I have an SB Live! using the basic WDM drivers.

Too bad the Live! DRIVE doesn't work with these basic drivers.

Winamp is version 2.5e.

If you have some mp3's which crash Winamp it probably isn't in any way related to Windows 2000 or sound card drivers.