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Subject:audio sounds different in program then on c drive Posted by: dtsthx2 Date:9/10/2011 9:15:01 AM Hi - I am putting together a cd and noticed that the mp3s sound ( ringy and not clear ) as when I play them off my hard drive out of the actual cd architect software. The sample rates are corrent, I looked under preferences and it gave me 2 choices. ( microsoft mapper and classic wave driver ) I tried both and it stays the same. ( the playback I select the speakers I have ).. This is annoying and have spend many of hours trying to figure it out. When I right click on the actual mp3 or .wav file in cd architect in the explorer bar I get this towards the bottom. Plug-In Name: mp3plug2.dll Folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\CD Architect 5.2\FileIO Plug-Ins\mp3plug2 Format: MP3 Audio Version: Version 3.0 (Build 423 I did not select any plug ins for the mp3s or .wav files and cannot figure out why the sound is different. ( it is hard to explain only that it sounds ringy and slightly echoey ) and cannot figure out when I am completely out of the program and play the same Mp3 or .wav file it sounds clear and accurate. I went in and looked at resample ( it gives your preview, good or best ) experimented with each and no effect on mp3 or .wav now that I think of it is sounds like an audio file that was originally converted in DAT to 44.1k instead of 48k. Could it be that I am not running a Creative Sound card. ( this is a new computer I have .. and they use Realtek as the playback device ) I noticed that when I try and open audio studio it states " there are no creative audio products that support and are running on the system that support Asio " wondering if this has any direct connection. Hoping that someone can help me.. thanks
Subject:RE: audio sounds different in program then on c drive Reply by: rraud Date:9/10/2011 6:46:29 PM Are you saying, your trying to add some MP3 files to an audio CD along with other wave files and the MP3 files sound different then the wave files? .. whilst previewing, after burning on CD playback? I don't quite follow you. Is the PC playing back though different sound cards on different app.s?... That's possible, if two cards are installed. There would be no significant quality difference between 44 & 48k sample rates., Is this purely a CD Arc issue or is it combination Sound Forge?

Hi - I am putting together a cd and noticed that the mp3s sound ( ringy and not clear ) as when I play them off my hard drive out of the actual cd architect software. The sample rates are corrent, I looked under preferences and it gave me 2 choices. ( microsoft mapper and classic wave driver ) I tried both and it stays the same. ( the playback I select the speakers I have ).. This is annoying and have spend many of hours trying to figure it out. When I right click on the actual mp3 or .wav file in cd architect in the explorer bar I get this towards the bottom.

Plug-In
Name: mp3plug2.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\CD Architect 5.2\FileIO Plug-Ins\mp3plug2
Format: MP3 Audio
Version: Version 3.0 (Build 423

I did not select any plug ins for the mp3s or .wav files and cannot figure out why the sound is different. ( it is hard to explain only that it sounds ringy and slightly echoey ) and cannot figure out when I am completely out of the program and play the same Mp3 or .wav file it sounds clear and accurate.

I went in and looked at resample ( it gives your preview, good or best ) experimented with each and no effect on mp3 or .wav

now that I think of it is sounds like an audio file that was originally converted in DAT to 44.1k instead of 48k.

Could it be that I am not running a Creative Sound card. ( this is a new computer I have .. and they use Realtek as the playback device ) I noticed that when I try and open audio studio it states
" there are no creative audio products that support and are running on the system that support Asio " wondering if this has any direct connection.

Hoping that someone can help me..

thanks