I just got a new computer and installed MC on it. I have a SoundBlaster Live card that came on it and it sounded great but it only had four channels and I wanted six so I installed my Extigy and Media Center's sound has been scratchy and garbled ever since.
I even tried uninstalling
Extigy and using the Live but it still is unlistenable.
MusicMatch, Windows Media, Dell's Music Something-or-other and Rhapsody play just fine --- just no Media Center and that's the one I want. I can even play videos (or could, I haven't tried since the sound problems came up).
As all these other apps play through the sound cards just fine, I assume it's something that I have done wrong when setting up MC.
I have tried both Direct Sound and Wave Mapper (no ASIO on these cards) with and without DSP enabled.
Please help.
CVIII
Here's my Sys Info:
Media Center Registered 9.1.306 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2557 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 245 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive E: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive E: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8483B Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: Yes / Normalization: None