Music problem when typing on keyboard

[Nhom]

Hello to the community,

Firts of all, thanks for your winamp5 -> I just love it

Then here is my problem :

When winamp 5 is playing music (mp3 to be precise), and when I type on my keyboard (word, MSN, even the Run command) then the music is beggining to be saccaded...
Very strange...

Any clue ?

Thks for any help

Nhôm

[DJ Egg]

Hi

Try the following DirectSound Output tweaks:

Winamp -> Prefs (Ctrl+P) -> Plugins -> Output -> DirectSound -> config:

Device tab:
-Make sure your sound card is selected as Device (c/o drop-down menu)
-Checkmark "enable hardware acceleration"

Buffering tab:
-Checkmark "enable cpu usage control"

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Still got problems?

Further out_ds config tips can be found | HERE | <-- read!

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If the problem is specifically with MP3 playback only,
then also try disabling the built-in Fast Layer 3 EQ

Prefs > Plugins > Input > Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder (in_mp3.dll) > config:
Decoder tab: Uncheck "Fast Layer 3 EQ"

Then try enabling the main Winamp EQ and boosting the bass end.

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Still got problems?

To help any further, we need to know some basic system specs, eg.
pc make/model or motherboard
cpu & ram (processor & memory)
sound card
graphics card
Windows OS
DirectX version (start -> run -> dxdiag)

Note: DirectSound Output requires DirectX v8 or higher
(current recommended version = 9.0c)

Please also confirm whether this was a clean installation of Winamp 5
or whether you installed on top of a previous version,
and whether you've installed any extra 3rd-party plugins.

This can be confirmed by providing us with a List of Plugins.

And tell us whether the problem occurs when playing back all audio formats, or just the one, eg.
mp3, wav, ogg, mod, wma, midi, Audio CD...


Also bear in mind that the problem could be being caused by some other concurrently running app/process, but more than often it is caused by old/faulty sound drivers.
In which case, be sure to check the manufacturer's site for updated sound drivers.


For Winamp 5.3x and later, chances are that you might have enabled the "Allow 24bit" option in Prefs > Playback, but your sound card/chip does not support 24bit Output. In which case you should uncheck this option.

[Nhom]

Excellent

This seems to work for me...
Incredible...You guys are strong

I thank you for your quick reply...

:Winamp: power

[The Fix]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
[B]Try the following:

Winamp -> Prefs (Ctrl+P) -> Plugins -> Output -> DirectSound -> config:

Device tab:
Make sure your sound card is selected as Device (c/o drop-down menu)
Checkmark "enable hardware acceleration"

Buffering tab:
Checkmark "enable cpu usage control"

This worked extremely well, thank you. Now Winamp doesn't skip for no reason. However, I'm still getting a lot of skipping when I open a new program or a new window in my browser.

Further out_ds config tips here.

This stuff seemed to be for a different problem than mine.

To help any further, we need to know some basic system specs

pc make/model or motherboard - Gateway/ AMD Athlon-PECM 750mhz
cpu & ram (processor & memory) - 750mhz AMD Athlon w/ 256mb RAM
sound card - Soundblaster PCI 128
graphics card - Nvidia Ti-4200 AGP card w/ 128mb
Windows OS - Windows 98 SE
DirectX version (start -> run -> dxdiag) - 9.0b

Please also confirm whether this was a clean installation of Winamp 5
or whether you installed on top of a previous 2.x version,
and whether you have installed any extra 3rd-party plugins.
If so, provide a list of all extra 3rd-party plugins installed.

This was a clean install of Winamp 5. I don't have any plug-ins installed unless they came with the installer file.

And tell us whether the problem occurs when playing back all audio formats, or just the one, eg.
mp3, wav, ogg, mod, wma, midi, Audio CD...

It happens during MP3 playback and when playing a CD. I haven't noticed with with WAV playback, but I don't really have any WAVs that are long enough for me to get a good reading from.

Also bear in mind that the problem could be being caused by some other concurrently running app/process, but more than often it is caused by old/faulty drivers.

I should have the most updated drivers for just about everything in my system. Before I began toying with the configuration settings, this would happen pretty much all the time for no apparent reason. Now it happens when I open or close a new program, when I load a new page in my internet browser, etc. If it were a larger, more RAM-hogging program, I would assume I just need more RAM and be done with it, but I can't imagine that Winamp needs more than 256 RAM to run (when I'm not running other RAM-hogging programs).

[siebe83]

Maybe look in your taskmanager what uses the most CPU. There might be some progs running you don't know of.
(mmh, very ironic, but right now my pc is slowing down as never before ).
Ie: spyware...
If so run spybot (google).
If not, try increasing buffer time in the DS Output plugin. (if you have not already done so)
Sorry i'm a bit short, but i think my pc's gonna crash

[gaekwad2]

Make sure you get this one:
Spybot S&D

Also, if you were mislead to SpyHunter or SpyKiller through Google AdWords, please contact Google. Google promised me some weeks ago they wouldn't do any more advertisement on my trademarked name "spybot", but I again receive complaints that they do, and this struggle with Google is going on for 4 months now.

Update: I cannot recommend to use the Google search engine any more (seing how many pushed unwanted search results appear on nearly every common term, other search engines have become more efficient in my opinion anyway).

(from the spybot news page)

[DJ Egg]

Or you could post a HijackThis log here,
and I'll tell you whether you've got any malware installed or not,
and how to fix it.

Hmm... SpybotSD seems to get more and more home page domains by the day

http://security.kolla.de

https://www.safer-networking.org

http://spybot.safer-networking.de

http://beam.to/spybotsd

http://spybot.eon.net.au

http://www.spybot.info

and there's more...

Or you could just go straight to one of these for the direct download:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html

http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2

Apart from all that...
Make sure your drives are running in DMA mode, not PIO mode.

Win9x instructions:
System Control Panel > Device Manager > Drives > drive > properties > settings...

Win2k/XP instructions:
Right-click My Computer icon > Manage > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > Primary/Secondary IDE Channel(s) > properties > Advanced Settings...


Also check to see if anything else is sharing IRQ with the sound or video card.

More tips here

[The Swink]

Heya...I seem to be having a similar problem to Nohm's.

If I'm running winamp and doing nothing else on my system it seems to run without any problems. The second I start doing anything in any other program (typing in Trillain, using 3dsMax or any of the other programs I use daily) the music skips, crackles, and pops in the most annoying manner imaginable. Interestingly, it started doing this yesterday.

I changed the settings you reccomended above with the exception of "enable hardware acceleration", which is greyed out regardless which device I choose from the dropdown (choices are 'SB Audigy Audio [9000]', 'Primary Sound Driver', and 'NVIDIA Nforce Audio'):

Cpu & RAM(processor & memory) - AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 1.00GB of RAM
Sound card - Soundblaster Audigy 9000 (?) - Bought a cheap OEM Audigy from NewEgg, not entirely sure what model or if that was a particularly good idea (choice governed by finances).
Graphics card - Nvidia GeForce FX 5600
Windows OS - Windows XP
DirectX Version: 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)

Thanks for any help and for maintaining excellent support.

Swink


Update: I now seem to be getting shrieks and glitch noises as well as popping and skipping and it now seems to be happening in any player and when all players are closed. Bleh.

Ah yeah, and I'm not entirely sure how to check for IRQ conflicts but seeing as it was working for a good three months before yesterday...

[The Swink]

Disabled onboard sound, seems to have fixed it.

[mikm]

For god's sake stop reviving dead posts.


And please use the edit button.

[shanecrow98]

Swink,

I had the EXACT same problem you had. I found a simple solution that worked great and will probably help other users as well. Especially people out there running on Nforce boards!

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1. Go to your Device Manager.

2. Just below your computer name you should see the "Computer" listing. (1st on the list)

3. Double-Click it to expand the selection.

4. You should see a line there that says "ACPI uniprocessor pc" or "Normal PC"

5. Double-click the line and go to the Driver tab.

6. Click "Update Driver" and click "No" so XP doesn't interfere with what we are doing.

7. Now Click on the "Advanced" then "Next" then "Don't search I will choose a driver to install" hit "Next".

8. At this point you should see a few different drivers you can load. the driver you need to choose is "advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) pc".

9. Load that driver and XP will prompt you to reboot.

10. Once you have rebooted it might ask you to reboot again. Go ahead and do it.

11. Go back and check in Device Manager that the line "advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) pc" is present under the Computer header.

12. Now fire up winamp and can almost bet you won't have ANY keyboard skipping problems.

Hope this helps.

[wb5bbw]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Hi

Try the following:

Winamp -> Prefs (Ctrl+P) -> Plugins -> Output -> DirectSound -> config:

Device tab:
-Make sure your sound card is selected as Device (c/o drop-down menu)
-Checkmark "enable hardware acceleration"

This was it. I would have sworn I'd diddled with this. I find it highly ironic that it fixed the problem instead of inducing a problem, as it warns.

Buffering tab:
-Checkmark "enable cpu usage control"

This had no effect, so I left it unchecked.

To help any further, we need to know some basic system specs, eg.
pc make/model or motherboard

ECS KT660-A

cpu & ram (processor & memory)

AMD AthlonXP 2.4Ghz, 512MB

sound card

Onboard Realtek

graphics card

ATI All-in-Wonder 9000

Windows OS

2000 SP4

DirectX version (start -> run -> dxdiag)

9.0c

Please also confirm whether this was a clean installation of Winamp 5
or whether you installed on top of a previous 2.x version,
and whether you have installed any extra 3rd-party plugins.
If so, provide a list of all extra 3rd-party plugins installed.

Clean 5.05 install; no plugins.

And tell us whether the problem occurs when playing back all audio formats, or just the one, eg.
mp3, wav, ogg, mod, wma, midi, Audio CD...

.wav and .mp3

Thanks much for the help. I hadn't looked at all the features of this thing. I think that the Pro version is in my near future, assuming the CFO (wife) lets me! I exceeded my budget last month big time.

Thanks again,
Kurt

[ZorkFox]

Effective, but....

The steps outlined by DJ Egg were effective for correcting the sudden onset of mild static I experienced, however it had other effects which I consider adverse.

For example, the output from WinAmp is now so tiny that I have to crank the wave volume slider on my soundboard's control panel which causes a corresponding increase in all system sounds (such as menu ticks, e-mail alerts, and incoming ICQ messages). This is highly annoying, not to mention deafening. If I want to get a decent volume from WinAmp, I have to either plug my ears when the system is going to make a sound or I have to turn my sounds off. Not a very nice trade.

Also, the CPU buffering option had no effect, so like some other users who have already reported back, I left it unchecked.

I have the current version of DirectX (9.0c). My soundcard is a Santa Cruz from Turtle Beach. My processor is a Pentium III at 800 MHz with 512 megabytes of RAM. I'm running Windows 2000 Professional.

I had not updated WinAmp for several months, nor had I updated DirectX. This problem came out of nowhere, or so it seems, and I only updated after I noticed it was happening. At first I tried installing the new WinAmp 5.08 over my old version (5.03, I think), but this didn't help. I then used the instructions elsewhere on this forum to perform a clean install.

Like other users, I tried playing files in other programs and did not experience the hissing static. To me, this seems to indicate that the problem is in WinAmp, though I'm sorry I have no idea how to help pinpoint it.

Thanks to everyone for the kind assistance.

[DJ Egg]

Did you look at the other thread linked to in my first post above?

Further out_ds tweaks here

eg. you might also need to checkmark "create primary buffer"...


Re: volume

Were you using out_wave before?
WaveOut is not recommended under Win2k.

DirectSound volume is proportionate to WaveOut volume, eg. if system WaveOut volume is at 80%, then this is equal to 100% with DirectSound.

Try increasing Winamp main volume and EQ preamp volume sliders instead.

Apart from that, you could try enhancing the volume/output with a dsp plugin, eg. Enhancer (though there's hundreds of others to choose from).

[ZorkFox]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Did you look at the other thread linked to in my first post above?

Further out_ds tweaks here

I did, in fact, and though I found it enlightening, none of the suggestions proved effective vis-a-vis my volume issues. I suppose that makes this post on the wrong thread now, but....

eg. you might also need to checkmark "create primary buffer"...

I checked this box and, like the CPU usage box, it had no effect. My soundcard is only about one year old, anyway.

Re: volume

Were you using out_wave before?
WaveOut is not recommended under Win2k.

I don't recall what I was using before. Why is out_wave not recommended for Windows 2000? When I switch to it now, 1% volume on WinAmp is more than sufficient and, in fact, if I have it any louder, it's too loud. When I move WinAmp's slider now, it seems to control the system wave output volume.

My previous setup--whatever it was... I'm sorry for my lack of attention in this regard--worked something like this: WinAmp provided some output which could be controlled with its built-in volume slider, but this output was then routed through the controls on my soundboard's slider panel. If I increased the soundboard's slider, all wave sounds on the system increased in volume, including those sounds produced by WinAmp. If I increased the slider in WinAmp, only WinAmp's output was affected and so I could control it without controling the entire system at the same time. Ideally, I would like to return to this functionality.

DirectSound volume is proportionate to WaveOut volume, eg. if system WaveOut volume is at 80%, then this is equal to 100% with DirectSound.

Try increasing Winamp main volume and EQ preamp volume sliders instead.

I'm afraid I don't quite understand your first paragraph (above) about proportionate volumes. I gave the preamp a try and while it did increase the output volume (very slightly) it also made the sound all squashy like the speakers were inside an armchair or some other fluff-filled container.

When using the out_ds library, I have to have WinAmp's slider at maximum to get even a glimmer of sound from it. I then have to go boost the volume on wave sounds on the soundboard's control panel to hear it at any sort of reasonable volume (which leads to the situation I described earlier about deafening system alerts).

Apart from that, you could try enhancing the volume/output with a dsp plugin, eg. Enhancer (though there's hundreds of others to choose from).

This is undoubtedly a nice plug-in, but whatever it does, the volume slider is moving all over the place of its own accord (presumably to whatever level it feels is best) and so the music soars and dives seemingly at random.