re: noise when playing mp3 in win 2000
Thursday, October 25, 2001 at 1:06 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ralph Pickering
(2 messages posted)
This was also driving me nuts on a machine with 512Mb RAM and a PIII 450 running
Windows 98. I got around the problem by loading Linux on the machine, and running
my Windows apps in a virtual machine (www.vmware.com). Not a cheap solution, but
it works perfectly, and I was going to buy VMWare anyway, or so I tell myself. And
the best part is - I can reboot my windows 'machine' without interrupting my music.
PS: I'm not affiliated with VMware in any way.
On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 5:17 am, Yukyat wrote:
>thanks for your reply.
>
>In my case, I have 256MB RAM, and I disable those special effects on winamp, but
>the problem exist and happens on all mp3 players (Media Player 6 & 7, even on PowerDVD
>3.0)
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>My Configs:
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>Duron 700Mhz CPU
>Gigabyte GA-7ZX1 Motherboard (KT-133,Socket A, ATX)
>Creative Nvidia TNT2 M64 Display Card
>Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI
>Cheap (No brand) Lan Card
>2 Harddisk : 20GB Seagate & 45GB IBM
>1 DVD-ROM (Matshita/Panasonic 8x)
>1 CD-R (Matshita/Panasonic CW7582)
>and also 1 USB scanner & 1 USB printer, but both offline(power off) when I play
mp3s
>
>Would there be any known issue with windows 2000 for those hardware I use ?
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>On Saturday, August 25, 2001 at 11:48 pm, Curt R wrote:
>It's hard to say for sure but this sounds a little like a memory problem to me.
> I had some similar occurances with winamp prior to adding some RAM and adjusting
>a few things. How much RAM do you have in your PC? If you have less than 128,
>that
>would be my first guess as to why this is happening. Winamp uses a fair bit of
>memory
>when running. Whenever you run another program it can force winamp (or parts of
>it) to be stored briefly on the hard disk in the swapfile. This swapping in and
>out can cause your music to stutter (how I describe the sound I got in that situation).
> One thing you can do is turn off the fancy little metres on the front of winamp.
> Those use up resources and are useless. If you have less than 128 MB's of RAM,
>I suggest buying at least 128 MB's more and adding it to your PC. Now is a good
>time to add RAM, it's cheap.
>
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>On Saturday, August 25, 2001 at 6:33 pm, Yukyat wrote:
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>>This happens when I play mp3 (I use winamp 2.76) and browse web pages (IE5.01 SP2)
>>at the same time AND the scroll the web page or the web page has animated stuffs
>>(gif), then the song played in winamp will have noise. It also happens when minimize/restore/maximize
>>windows...
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>>Anyone can help me ?
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>>Intersting thing is, when I play mp3 in winamp and then right click and choose
>Nullsoft
>>Winamp, It will show the "About winamp" with animated credits and the song playing
>>will turn to 1.5-2x speed + noise...
>>
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