Can't play MP3s

[Doug]

This is what I get for getting a brand name computer. It's a hp 8140
pavilion,
and there are no newer drivers for it. But also, how could possibly this be
caused by sound
card settings if EVERYTHING was re-installed?

Doug

Hello to all, and really, a lot of thanks to all ahead of time who take

the

time with resect to this problem. It is quite the serious one, and I

have

no idea how to go about solving it, or even what could be causing it.

I'll

The Problem: I can't play MP3s clearly on ANY player, including winamp

2,

2.09, 2,9, 3, Windows Media Player, or RealPlayer. As a matter of fact

I

get bad quality on avi's as well, divx inclusive. What I mean by

clearly is

that if I'm playing a song lets say, the music is loud and clear, but

the

singers lyrics can hardly be heard. Basically, the song sounds as if it
were recorded in a church where the echo would drown out any words in

the

song, and actually, this echo is there. It sounds really weird, and I

must

admit it's very hard to describe.

Sounds like you got a SoundBlaster Live! or something, and the
environmental audio settings are playing up. Try installing the latest
drivers.
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Paul S
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[Doug]

all of them. The only ones which still sound ok are the ones with no lyrics
for reasons described previously.
And it isn't the songs, because I can play them fine on both my other
machines.

Doug

the song/audio
file, etc.. playes really strange, with a sort of echo in the background
with the lyrics drown out by the instrmentals (almost as if the "lyric
layer" was decreased in volume while the "song layer" was increased in
volume

How many songs are you talking about? One? One hundred? All?
dadiOH

[paul s]

Post by Doug
This is what I get for getting a brand name computer. It's a hp 8140
pavilion,
and there are no newer drivers for it. But also, how could possibly
this be caused by sound
card settings if EVERYTHING was re-installed?

I assume that the re-install was done from the HP supplied CD, which
should put it back to a factory supplied state. Looks like it could be
faulty sound-hardware then.

I think that computer has the sound built into the mainboard, your best
option would be to disable it, usually done in the BIOS settings. And get
a PCI soundcard, as that machine has spare PCI slots. If you don't want to
open it up then an external USB based solution should work. Like a SB
Extigy.