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Title: Poor sound - MP3 Encoder
Post by: aussie1 on April 28, 2003, 04:40:13 pm

Ijust ripped a few CDs using the MP3 Encoder set at 256  High Quality.  And the sound is terrible.  There are skips. Some notes get duplicated. Same problem occured with 10 differenet CDs.  Anyone else have this problem?

Media Center Registered 9.0.161 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 645 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 325 MB, Free - 159 MB

Internet Explorer: 5.50.4807.2300 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 5.50.4807.2300
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.6144 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   No CD drives found.
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  No burners found.
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: Poor sound - MP3 Encoder
Post by: aussie1 on April 28, 2003, 04:42:31 pm

Addendum:  Here's the syste, info when the CD drive is attached.

Media Center Registered 9.0.161 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 408 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 325 MB, Free - 159 MB

Internet Explorer: 5.50.4807.2300 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 5.50.4807.2300
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.6144 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  No burners found.
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: Poor sound - MP3 Encoder
Post by: MachineHead on April 28, 2003, 04:51:28 pm

Direct Sound or wav out? Try changing these settings, also see if moving the slider to more skip resistant helps.

Settings.. in playback options.

Title: Re: Poor sound - MP3 Encoder
Post by: KingSparta on April 28, 2003, 05:04:39 pm

>> Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer

Digital Secure Mode May Help.

Title: Re: Poor sound - MP3 Encoder
Post by: aussie1 on April 29, 2003, 02:53:21 pm

Its not a problem with the playback settings.  I copied the files onto my Mac and played them through iTunes.  Result = same sound problems.