884125, The way to look at this problem, is from the two ends of the 'sound tunnel'.
From the MJ end, look at the choices in the drop down menu in Settings>Options>
layback>Output>Device.
From the Sound Card Driver end, look at Control Panel>Sounds>etc. For your first attempt, change the current settings, and if necessary reboot.
It maybe that MJ does a poorer job of
automatically and dynamically detecting, setting and maintaining compatibility with your SB Live 4 speaker mode drive settings than WMP & MusicMatch.
These problems would be easier to detect and improve, if source code were available. It is not unreasonable to find beta testing conducted in the spirit of shared source code. Often the quid pro quo for the
voluntary effort to find, document, and help others correct bugs in software, is the education and sense of partnership provided by shared source code.
http://jreceiver.sourceforge.net/[former member]
Note to JimH: If you are going to change any of this post, then delete
all of it, in which case I will not post to Interact (sic) again.