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[olarte]

I don't understand this one. I installed MC on 4 PCs and it sounds great on 3 out of 4.

the 4th one is a standard HP Pavillion with a realtek 97 sound card.

Windows Media plays the same MP3s fine but MC the voices sound garbled, far away and with an echo.

I don't understand it, I've played with everything I can think of in MC and the COntrol panel settings for sound... again windows media is fine, only MC sounds very strange.

After 30 days of testing and getting ready to put this on all my pcs it turns out (As fate would have it) that the last pc has this horrible problem.

Is there anyway to test, force MC to use the same output\settings as Windows Media?

Any help, hint, suggestion is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[KingSparta]

it maybe the soundboard driver.

I had a similar problem and a few others did also it would play fine in other apps, but mc was garbled.

the fix was to install the orginal sound board drivers that came with the computer, and not the upgraded drivers.

you could try the old ones, and then newer drivers to see if that could be the problem.

also if you turn on or off DFX plug-in or DSP

[JimH]

Try switching playback from Direct Sound to Wave Out or vice versa in MC options.

[olarte]

  Thanks Guys... I spent a couple of hours but I'm all set...

It was a combination of poor speakers, the updated realtek drivers which had an equalizer and other effects on top of the MC equalizer.

I actually swapped sound card or rather added a basic soundblaster on top of the built in realtek and had better but still crappy results.

So I uninstalled the soundblaster, the realtek, and let windows find the basic (generic) drivers for the realtek... changed for slightly better speakers (I can use them in the basement pc which does I don't use for tunes) and it's all set now.

The funny part is that for once Windows media sounded ok, but MC did not...

The final clue to the speakers contributing to this (it has a 3d sound button) was that it sounded much better with headphones plugged into the out port.