Hearing fuzz...

[cloud1494]

Every time I pause a song and push play again it gives me fuzz (like the kind you hear when you get snowy channels on tv), then when I pause it and press play again I hear the song. Is this a problem with the codec or something wrong with my computer?

[cloud1494]

Update: I just tried uninstalling and reverting back to version 5.22, and it's doing the same thing. I'm not sure what's going on here, kinda strange.

[Sawg]

Do you get the "fuzz" in any other programs?

My guess it might be a hardware issue. Check all your speaker cables, make sure they are securely plugged in. (Unplug them and plug them back in). Also, if your speakers have an independent volume knob, make sure the volume isn't turned all the way up on your speakers and down on your system (or vise-versa).

[cloud1494]

its not a problem with that, its a brand new laptop and Ive tried every other media program i can think of to test, sonique, quintescent, wmp, etc... winamp is the only one that has this problem. Its an intermittent problem, happening every-other time I press pause and play in winamp. I can stand it, just it can be annoying to have to pause and unpause an extra time to hear my music. please help somehow...

[cloud1494]

Once again, I have used other programs and Winamp is the only one that gives me static like this. Please help.

[siebe83]

Try these DirectSound output tweaks.

Make sure you're using 5.3 with the updated in_mp3.dll.

If no luck, please provide more info:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#specs
System specs, 3rd-party plugins you may be using, file format of the files.

[cloud1494]

I'm using 5.3 with the new dll and it still does the same thing. This static gets pretty annoying after a while, might have to use QMP until it gets fixed. My system specs are as follows:

OS: XP SP2
CPU: Turion 64
Sound: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio [NoDB]
Video: nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS (256 MB)
Memory: 2x512 MB
Winamp: 5.3 w/ updated in_mp3.dll

Let me know if you need more info.

[psycode]

Sounds like a soundcard driver issue, I had exactly the same problem with an old Aureal A3D card a few years back but only when using quad output. The left/right channels also randomly swapped after unpausing.

The likely cause of this is that the audio playback position is getting stuck in the middle of a sample when paused, so for 16-bit audio this would result in garbage out when unpaused.

I'd suggest looking for a driver update, or trying an alternative output plugin.

[besonen]

i am experiencing this exact problem:

play an audio file, hit 'pause' -> 'unpause' and hear static(fuzz), then hit 'pause' -> 'unpause' and hear no static(fuzz) and the audio file playing normally. this is repeatable.

cloud1494, did you ever get to the root of the problem?

Originally posted by psycode
Sounds like a soundcard driver issue, I had exactly the same problem with an old Aureal A3D card a few years back but only when using quad output. The left/right channels also randomly swapped after unpausing.

The likely cause of this is that the audio playback position is getting stuck in the middle of a sample when paused, so for 16-bit audio this would result in garbage out when unpaused.

I'd suggest looking for a driver update, or trying an alternative output plugin.

psycode, it doesn't sound like a driver issue to me. cloud1494 mentioned that the problem manifested only when using winamp and that a number of other media players worked fine (i'm also seeing the problem only in winamp). the fact that winamp manifests the problem while other audio players work fine suggests the problem lies with winamp rather than the audio driver (else other audio players would also exhibit the problem).

an overview of my environment:
- ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard (ADI AD1986A audio chipset)
- AMD Sempron 2800+, ~1.6GHz
- 1GB ECC RAM
- Seagate 400GB SATA HD
- Windows XP Home SP1 (clean install)
- Winamp 5.32 (clean install)


does anyone have any ideas on how to isolate the problem? my first thought is to try earlier versions of winamp until the problem no longer manifests. btw, i've dutifully employed most of the DirectSound tweaks to no avail.

[siebe83]

See if one of the suggestions in the following threads helps:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=239979
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=251715
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=259019