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Title: Sound degrades over time (sometimes)
Post by: mauka on August 07, 2005, 07:18:47 pm

When I run MC11 My music sounds great but sometimes, after a while it starts to degrade (fist poping like an old LP then gradually getting worse. I am using a Chaintech sound card using the back DACs for stereo and ASIO for All. The funny thing is that, all I have to do to fix it, is pause or stop the player and it's as good as new. So that rules out the reciever I'm running it through or the cables. I'm at a loss as to why pausing MC11 would clear up this kind of problem

Anyone have any Ideas?

Title: Re: Sound degrades over time (sometimes)
Post by: JimH on August 07, 2005, 07:20:48 pm

Are you using a recent version of the sound card driver and ASIO-for-all?

Please copy your system info from MC's Help and paste it here.

Title: Re: Sound degrades over time (sometimes)
Post by: mauka on August 08, 2005, 06:42:43 pm

Media Center Registered 11.0.310 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1  (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1090 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 117 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpclient.010817-1148) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2750.167 (xpclnt_qfe.040728-2019) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2750.166 (xpclnt_qfe.040728-2019) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D:         COMBO-52X16C      Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D:          COMBO-52X16C       Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:52  MaxSpeed:52  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Im using Via Vinyl Drivers for the chaintech I believe latest driver but I will check. I'm pretty sure everythings up to date. The card is less that a moth old and I D/L the latest then.

Title: Re: Sound degrades over time (sometimes)
Post by: JimH on August 08, 2005, 06:45:28 pm

XP would be happier with more memory.  Something is probably leaking memory (could be anywhere), but 512MB would help.

Title: Re: Sound degrades over time (sometimes)
Post by: mauka on August 09, 2005, 07:15:46 am

Ya know I had forgotten that that was all the memory I has until I posted that :P
I will pick up some more ram and let you know how it works out. I will also see if Meedio or one of it's plugins is causing the leak.

Thanks for the help