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"Oh for god's sake.. (Sound Probs)"

Right, I now have Win98SE and its great, but, I use my pc for music quite a lot and thus, MP3's so I dowloaded a few favs and to my horror they played back like.. sorta echoey and it sounded computerish. It was pants, so I downloaded QuickTime, Winamp, Sonique, Media Player, etc and it sounded the same.

Ok, I tried a cd, and it worked great. So its not my sound card (Phew) it worked fine before, so im guessing that im missing some important drivers or something Codec or something.

So, could someone give me a bit of help, and help a great friend fix his computer :o) Pleeese :o)

GasMask

Pleease!

onboard soundcard....missed that? and your not making music...m'ok guess you could get a £6 soundcard but it's not worth it.

weird how it's echoey only with MP3s, it sounds like missing drivers, weird, never heard of that happening before really :(

don't know if it will make any difference, try downloading a new player:

http://www.real.com/realone/ index.html (no space)

maybe that will have the extra file you need, maybe it got deleted when you did something to your pc.

Nah I dont want to make music, Its just that I use it alot, and my MD player and stuff, and its just something to listen too etc.

So, Im only using the MP3 software. Sonique Winamp etc. But the audio still sound all crappy and echoy and its total crap.

So, I don't know what the problem is, but its something MP3 related, missing drivers or something.. Helpy...

He doesn't have a soundcard, it's onboard.

DON'T GET THE £6 CARDS!!! I hate mine, wanna eat the guy who made mine, made me wait 2 weeks before I could buy another, now i've got a crappy card that doesn't do much.

those cards are absolutly no good for making music, no good *shakes head* mine has no midi!!!! thats pretty much the only thing I use, Audigys range is good.

but it sounds like your setting for the software your using, I guess your using different software for your CDs and MP3s...

if it's not a problem with your soundcard, it's more than likely not going to be the MP3s, so the software is the next thing to check, what are you using for your MP3s/CDs and making music (for personal curiosity) :)

Ah dammit

Hm, intresting, But it worked like fine before. I cant even afford £6 I just shelled out £70 for this thing to be repaired, new modem and stuff.

Its *Just* Mp3's nothing else...

Actually, I had the exact same problem as you with MP3s for Linux, although I think that was because my CPU wasn't up to the job (Windows managed it though - it just slowed everything to a crawl). I never fixed it, I just got a new soundcard, one that cost £6 from Computer Exchange.

Right, I now have Win98SE and its great, but, I use my pc for music quite a lot and thus, MP3's so I dowloaded a few favs and to my horror they played back like.. sorta echoey and it sounded computerish. It was pants, so I downloaded QuickTime, Winamp, Sonique, Media Player, etc and it sounded the same.

Ok, I tried a cd, and it worked great. So its not my sound card (Phew) it worked fine before, so im guessing that im missing some important drivers or something Codec or something.

So, could someone give me a bit of help, and help a great friend fix his computer :o) Pleeese :o)

GasMask

Pleease!