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[msgelter]

I haven't been able to find out anything about this by searching here, so I hope I'm not repeating an earlier problem.

I have had MC12 installed on my home machine (XPHome SP3) for a couple of years now, everything running fine, no trouble. A few days ago when I went to play some mp3 files (ones that I have played hundreds of times before) I get loud, screeching, horribly distorted playback. It's not the files; they will play just fine in any other player. Also, the audio track for VIDEO playback is fine. I tried a reinstall, same problem. Upgrading to MC13 gave me clean playback, but quite frankly I HATE the new "tabbed" listings. I uninstalled MC 13, completely wiped all traces of MC12 that might have been lingering, and reinstalled MC12 from scratch. I know it was a "virgin" install because I had to re-establish a library and the settings were all at default.

Same thing. Horrible distortion on playback. Any ideas?

[gappie]

have you tried to switch between wave out and direct sound under tools>options>playback>output mode?

welcume to the forum.

 
gab

[msgelter]

Thanks! That did it. The big question now is: how did it get switched? (I'm the only one here.) And why was it that way when I did a "virgin install"?

Oh well . . .

[JimH]

Bad driver?

[gappie]

Thanks! That did it. The big question now is: how did it get switched? (I'm the only one here.) And why was it that way when I did a "virgin install"?

Oh well . . .

no, you are not the only one.. somewhere around version 529 there was a change in the playback. and more people had reported the problem, and switching helped. when you do a search for

direct sound wave out

you will find a bunch of them.

glad it worked

 
gab

[NeoMorph]

I just updated Media Center and I think I wrecked my ears.  I'm sure I was using Direct Sound perfectly well before but now...
Wave Out fixed it.