HI Gang,
I am using Media center 10.0, and mostly it is working well. I am in the process of taking all my old vinyl albums and recording them to cd's in WAV format. Later I will rip them into mp3's and add to my hard rive to be played by MC.
After the album is recorded to my computer as WAV files I can play them fine. The files sound perfect. And in fact I have been able to burn audio cd's that are fine with a different program (not MC). However if I try to burn an audio CD using MC, some strange artifacts are introduced into the CD. The artifacts sound like clicking and pops.
Being as I can make perfect CD's with a different program from the files that MC recorded, you would have to believe that MC has some kind of glitch in the code that does the burning.
I know this subject has been adressed a long time back but I cant seem to find the correct threads in INteract. Was it ever discovered what causes this problem? and has there been a resolution.
Running a P2 600, soundblaster live, 650MB main memory, Plex 24/10/40 burner.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks, Bob
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UPDATE...............
This is a playback problem. Not a burning problem. Even store bought CD's have the clicking and popping sound.
After fiddling around for 3 hours I have discovered that the clicking and popping will go away if you disable "digital playback" in the options/devices/CD Audio settings.
Another thing I discovered is that Windows Media Player will do digital audio playback (with visualizations running) and there is no problem. Could this be a problem with the codec that is being used to play back in MC?? I will be honest with you I don't know much about the internal workings of this stuff. Just reporting what I have discovered. Hope you can find a solution to this playback clicking issue.
Thanks,
Bob
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Media Center Registered 10.0.173 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 601 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 654 MB, Free - 517 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.5436 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive F: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive G: Mode:Normal Type:Auto 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 G: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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