Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Hi Bob From what we can tell, no sound appears to be coming from it, even when headphones or speakers are plugged into it, that's the root of the problem. What is interesting about this whole thing is that when her room mate hooks up her external card to the same computer, it doesn't work either, but it works fine on other computers in the house. I'm wondering if this isn't some kind of a driver issue? When she hooked it up, Windows was successfully able to find the card, but she didn't get any speech, which is what started this whole thing. So it looks like it's a driver issue but the problem is I don't know where to go to remove the drivers so windows can properly find the card again. If we can get windows to not only find the card but install the drivers we might have a shot at this! But thanks for the tip, it's helpful. At 08:15 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2636 (20071103) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Chris I happened to play with this card earlier in the week and posted on the GwMicro support list. While I didn't purchase the card for purposes of using it with a synthesizer, I wanted to experiemtnt synthesizer, I wanted to test the concept. What I learned from the WE support list that only the d-talk 32 and the Via Voices will work using the secondary card and the latter only with a bit of tweeking. If you go into the We synthesizer menu, you will notice that d-talk32 allows one to specify a sound card while Sapi doesn't. So, in this gal's application, she will have to use her on-board soundcard for her software speech and the SB for her audio sounds. When I learned this, that ended my experimentation with the card for speech synthesizer use. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Ok, well a question from my point of view, did this person have any particular need for a SB Live external card? I mean an Imic is a great choice for an external device, works on just about everything that boasts a USB port. Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone: +613 9747 3975 Fax: +613 9743 7954 Mobile: +61 418 773 532 Email and Messenger: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: grtdane12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 1:50 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi Bob From what we can tell, no sound appears to be coming from it, even when headphones or speakers are plugged into it, that's the root of the problem. What is interesting about this whole thing is that when her room mate hooks up her external card to the same computer, it doesn't work either, but it works fine on other computers in the house. I'm wondering if this isn't some kind of a driver issue? When she hooked it up, Windows was successfully able to find the card, but she didn't get any speech, which is what started this whole thing. So it looks like it's a driver issue but the problem is I don't know where to go to remove the drivers so windows can properly find the card again. If we can get windows to not only find the card but install the drivers we might have a shot at this! But thanks for the tip, it's helpful. At 08:15 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2636 (20071103) Information
RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Ok, so could you not say tell Winamp from the output plug-ins section to use the external sound card directly and have Windows use the in-built speakers of the laptop as a default sound card for system sounds? That way JAWS or whatever should work just fine, giving sound through the in-built sound device and Winamp sound through the external 1. I've never liked the default Winamp output plug-in, its settings seem fiddly and I always get a whole heap of noise on some files for some reason when I use it so I use the other plug-in, can't remember the name of it now but it's the original plug-in Winamp came with to output sound. Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone: +613 9747 3975 Fax: +613 9743 7954 Mobile: +61 418 773 532 Email and Messenger: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: grtdane12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 12:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Does the card show up in Device Manager? Easy way to check is to go to Sounds and Audio Devices Properties in Control Panel. Then go to the hardware tab. A list of audio devices will show up. You can check the device properties there and there is also a trouble shooting button. Bob. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:50 AM Subject: Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi Bob From what we can tell, no sound appears to be coming from it, even when headphones or speakers are plugged into it, that's the root of the problem. What is interesting about this whole thing is that when her room mate hooks up her external card to the same computer, it doesn't work either, but it works fine on other computers in the house. I'm wondering if this isn't some kind of a driver issue? When she hooked it up, Windows was successfully able to find the card, but she didn't get any speech, which is what started this whole thing. So it looks like it's a driver issue but the problem is I don't know where to go to remove the drivers so windows can properly find the card again. If we can get windows to not only find the card but install the drivers we might have a shot at this! But thanks for the tip, it's helpful. At 08:15 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2636 (20071103) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives
Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Dear Cris: Recently purchased an external sound card to add to the internal card of my newer notebook which has a 1.0 USB port whereas the newer notebook has a 2.0 notebook and so the external doesn't work well on the newer notebook but works like it should when used on the old notebook. I'm suspecting I might be having a USB problem rather than a sound card problem and maybe you are experiencing the same? - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:50 AM Subject: Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi Bob From what we can tell, no sound appears to be coming from it, even when headphones or speakers are plugged into it, that's the root of the problem. What is interesting about this whole thing is that when her room mate hooks up her external card to the same computer, it doesn't work either, but it works fine on other computers in the house. I'm wondering if this isn't some kind of a driver issue? When she hooked it up, Windows was successfully able to find the card, but she didn't get any speech, which is what started this whole thing. So it looks like it's a driver issue but the problem is I don't know where to go to remove the drivers so windows can properly find the card again. If we can get windows to not only find the card but install the drivers we might have a shot at this! But thanks for the tip, it's helpful. At 08:15 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2636 (20071103) Information
Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
hi. She chose the SB live because it's what she wanted, I did bring up the Imic to her but the SB live external is what she chose. Seems like from everything I'm seing, and the more posts I read, tthat it's purely a driver issue, nothing much to do with USB or anything, remember folks windows finds the card just fine, no problems. it shows up in device manager just fine. but the software from the cd looks like it needs to be installed so everything will work properly. At 03:43 PM 11/4/2007, you wrote: alternatively, a USB sound box that, I would say you would have to go a long way to beat, is the Alicis IO2. although it is not the cheapest, this box also has some nice features for broadcasting use. Simon Wilkes, e-mail or windows messenger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype, dj-goshawk - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:11 PM Subject: RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Ok, well a question from my point of view, did this person have any particular need for a SB Live external card? I mean an Imic is a great choice for an external device, works on just about everything that boasts a USB port. Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone: +613 9747 3975 Fax: +613 9743 7954 Mobile: +61 418 773 532 Email and Messenger: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: grtdane12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 1:50 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi Bob From what we can tell, no sound appears to be coming from it, even when headphones or speakers are plugged into it, that's the root of the problem. What is interesting about this whole thing is that when her room mate hooks up her external card to the same computer, it doesn't work either, but it works fine on other computers in the house. I'm wondering if this isn't some kind of a driver issue? When she hooked it up, Windows was successfully able to find the card, but she didn't get any speech, which is what started this whole thing. So it looks like it's a driver issue but the problem is I don't know where to go to remove the drivers so windows can properly find the card again. If we can get windows to not only find the card but install the drivers we might have a shot at this! But thanks for the tip, it's helpful. At 08:15 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm
RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Of course, each to their own. Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone: +613 9747 3975 Fax: +613 9743 7954 Mobile: +61 418 773 532 Email and Messenger: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: grtdane12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 1:05 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together hi. She chose the SB live because it's what she wanted, I did bring up the Imic to her but the SB live external is what she chose. Seems like from everything I'm seing, and the more posts I read, tthat it's purely a driver issue, nothing much to do with USB or anything, remember folks windows finds the card just fine, no problems. it shows up in device manager just fine. but the software from the cd looks like it needs to be installed so everything will work properly. At 03:43 PM 11/4/2007, you wrote: alternatively, a USB sound box that, I would say you would have to go a long way to beat, is the Alicis IO2. although it is not the cheapest, this box also has some nice features for broadcasting use. Simon Wilkes, e-mail or windows messenger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype, dj-goshawk - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:11 PM Subject: RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Ok, well a question from my point of view, did this person have any particular need for a SB Live external card? I mean an Imic is a great choice for an external device, works on just about everything that boasts a USB port. Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone: +613 9747 3975 Fax: +613 9743 7954 Mobile: +61 418 773 532 Email and Messenger: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: grtdane12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 1:50 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi Bob From what we can tell, no sound appears to be coming from it, even when headphones or speakers are plugged into it, that's the root of the problem. What is interesting about this whole thing is that when her room mate hooks up her external card to the same computer, it doesn't work either, but it works fine on other computers in the house. I'm wondering if this isn't some kind of a driver issue? When she hooked it up, Windows was successfully able to find the card, but she didn't get any speech, which is what started this whole thing. So it looks like it's a driver issue but the problem is I don't know where to go to remove the drivers so windows can properly find the card again. If we can get windows to not only find the card but install the drivers we might have a shot at this! But thanks for the tip, it's helpful. At 08:15 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Can you set the SB Live to be the default sound card and get system sounds from it? If no, you may need to disable some Creative utilities in Msconfig. If you do get sound from the SB live you can get the internal sound card to be the default and set Winamp to use the SB Live. You want to make sure that only use preferred devices is not checked in Sounds and Audio devices on the audio page.. Then go to the output plug-in in Winamp and configure it to use the sblive. It should show up as a device if the card is properly installed and available in sounds and audio devices. Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:30 AM Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm
RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
Hi. Well, that's exactly what she wants to do, but as I said in my original post, all atempts to get the external sound card seem to be failing. It *does* show up in device manager, and Winamp does see it. She set it up so that her speech would come from her internal card on the laptop she's using, and Winamp is set so it goes through the external card, but that's just it, no sound from the external card which is what started this whole thing. It certainly looks like a driver issue, she has not installed the software cd that came with the card yet, but she's going to try to get a pare of working eyes to help with that and we'll see if that doesn't do the trick. At 02:09 PM 11/4/2007, you wrote: Ok, so could you not say tell Winamp from the output plug-ins section to use the external sound card directly and have Windows use the in-built speakers of the laptop as a default sound card for system sounds? That way JAWS or whatever should work just fine, giving sound through the in-built sound device and Winamp sound through the external 1. I've never liked the default Winamp output plug-in, its settings seem fiddly and I always get a whole heap of noise on some files for some reason when I use it so I use the other plug-in, can't remember the name of it now but it's the original plug-in Winamp came with to output sound. Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia Phone: +613 9747 3975 Fax: +613 9743 7954 Mobile: +61 418 773 532 Email and Messenger: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: grtdane12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 12:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2636 (20071103) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together
HI Chris, Which sb live external card is it? There are more than one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Sunday, 4 November 2007 11:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Winamp 5.35 and external sound card won't play nice together Hi folks I'm posting this question to multiple lists in hopes I can get a somewhat quick answer. I've got someone who has written to me privately off list who just got an external sound card, it's a SB live! She's using a laptop with a signatel soundcard, yeah not the best but these laptops have never had good sound cards for things. What she would like to do is separate things, so her window-eyes software speech goes on one card, and the music from Winamp goes to the other. She wants to learn how to broadcast, and we've got everything together but this issue came up yesterday and I haven't been able to figure out what in hell is going on. I spent a couple hours with her on the phone and msn trying to get this to work but without much success. Even though everything is plugged in properly, the SB Live card simply will not work, and we can't figure out why. One of her room mates has a very similar card, and he was able to use it without installing the software for it, and when he did it required a working pare of eyes which isn't easy to come by there. I'm just wondering if the card that's not working actually might require the software to work whereas the other one didn't seem to? Also,I'm wondering which card should handle which thing, would the internal sound card handle the software speech better tthan it would music, remember this is for broadcasting purposes so she wants the broadcast to sound as good as it can. I've done everything I can think of, and I am stumped. So, I'm wondering if any of you folks have any ideas? Just for specific's sake, She's using Winamp 5.35 and the Nullsoft waveout plugin for her music output, and in the configuration for that plugin, she has Winamp pointed to her SB Live external card, which as I said at the beginning, doesn't work at all. She hears her speech fine because that's on her regular internal card for the laptop, but no music. Is there something we're doing wrong, or is it possible that her laptop and that particular external card just aren't compadible for some crazy reason or another? I hope what I'm asking makes some sense here, so if anyone can give some tips, I'd be greatful! Thanks! Chris Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
