Hi Gene and Larry,
Thank you for your immediate replies. Gene, you were right on. I never
thought of checking the default configuration. In fact, I never knew you
could change the settings on the driver. This machine came as is, so I
never had to deal with that part of the setup.
It took me a while to find where to change the configuration. But I finally
found it in the speaker tab of the sounds and audio devices in the control
panel. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many different configurations
there, and sure enough, the default configuration was desktop speakers.
Larry, my Winamp problem went away when I changed the speaker configuration
to surround sound 5.1 speakers. Oh, what a relief! I am so glad to hear
the clean sound on podcast files using Winamp. Again.
Thank you for your help, both of you.
ST
Below is the original message I sent:
Hello everyone:
I've been having a bit of a problem. I have a Pentium 4 with XP
professional. It's running at about 3.08GHz with one gigabytes of RAM.
Ever since I installed Total Recorder about a month ago, I've been having to
take care of a problem here and there.
It started out with the microphone input on the soundcard no longer
responding. It turned out that somehow the Total Recorder's driver did not
like the SoundBlaster Audigy driver and corrupted it. This problem was
fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling the SoundBlaster Audigy driver, and
the microphone input on the soundcard now works. But in the process the
Total Recorder's driver disappeared. At this point that is a minor issue
for me.
Then the second major problem happened. For some reason, the rear speakers
on the surround sound system quit working. I know the speakers themselves
are working because when I use them as front speakers, they work. So at
this point I don't know whether there is something wrong with the soundcard
or the controller that is connected to the soundcard since I have no idea
how I can test them. I forgot to mention that the sound system is Boston
Acoustics' BA7900 5 and 1 speaker system. It is possible that the problem
may be the subwoofer since the all the speakers are directly connected to
it. The controller brings the sound signals from the soundcard and feeds
them into the subwoofer.
My third problem, which is the reason for this inquiry, is that I noticed
last night Winamp was playing the podcast files I downloaded in very poor
quality. They sound like listening to a far-away FM radio station with
quite a bit of static. Sometimes the files played are breaking up as if I'm
getting a bad stream. I played the same files on Studio Recorder and Sound
Forge, and they are in perfect quality with no extra noise.
Does anyone out there happen to know what's going on with my system? I
don't know if I need to be focusing on my soundcard, Winamp or speaker
system. I've unstalled and reinstalled different versions of Winamp several
times. But the result is just the same. I wish I new how surround sound
signals are coming out from the soundcard, so that I could test to see if
all the ports are in working order.
There are five jacks on the soundcard. I know the microphone jack, line-in
jack and line-out (at least I think that's what it is) jack are working.
But I'm not sure about the jack between line-in and line-out, and the jack
on the outside opposite from the microphone jack.
If anyone out there can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Sorry about the long-winded explanation of my problem.
ST
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