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[Charlemagne 8]

 

I just got a new computer and installed MC on it. I have a SoundBlaster Live card that came on it and it sounded great but it only had four channels and I wanted six so I installed my Extigy and Media Center's sound has been scratchy and garbled ever since.
I even tried uninstalling
Extigy and using the Live but it still is unlistenable.
MusicMatch, Windows Media, Dell's Music  Something-or-other and Rhapsody play just fine --- just no Media Center and that's the one I want. I can even play videos (or could, I haven't tried since the sound problems came up).

As all these other apps play through the sound cards just fine, I assume it's something that I have done wrong when setting up MC.

I have tried both Direct Sound and Wave Mapper (no ASIO on these cards) with and without DSP enabled.

Please help.

CVIII

Here's my Sys Info:

Media Center Registered 9.1.306 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2557 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 245 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive E:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8483B    Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:48  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: Yes /  Normalization: None

[LisaRCT]

Have you ever heard the old saying:
If it is not broken do not fix it. ??

But you just had to mess with it didn't you?    


I can't count how many times I have donethings like that    

[Charlemagne 8]

Famous last words:
"I'll do just ONE more thing ..."
CVIII

[dingoBaby]

The SB Live didn't happen to come with a Dell machine did it?

[Charlemagne 8]

The SB Live didn't happen to come with a Dell machine did it?

Yes it did. I know it's a "special" card that only Dell uses but it worked when I first used MC9 after setting up but I never intended to use it much .. I already had an Extigy. The problems have only come after an intallation of SB Extigy. Now the SB Live card won't even work well ... with Media Center. It works with all the other music producing devices as did the Extigy.
CVIII

[Charlemagne 8]

OK, now I feel REALLY stupid. I changed the "Output Format" in DSP Studio to 4 channel output instead of "source ..." and all is now hunky-dory. Now the question is, should I try the Extigy again?
CVIII

[LisaRCT]

well that depends . . .  are you a masochist ?

[GRAYDOG]

Go for it...