Audacity Forum

I'm playing home burned Music CDs on the DVD player inside my WinXP SP3 machine. I'm using Windows Media Player 9.

The playback sounds awful. Deep echo concert hall effects.

The only other CD player in the house isn't in the house. It's in the car, so we can't tell much from that.

The individual sound clips I prepared for the CD are in Audacity 1.2.6 and they sound perfect. They sound precisely like the vinyl sounded.

Where did the effect come from and is it on the CD like that? As near as I can tell, Easy CD Creator has no effects applied. I can't tell the program version because it's a hybrid of tools. Also ANAICT, Windows Media is set for "flat" unexciting playback.

Could this be an error in the "Abandon All Hope" Windows Sound Panels? How come it doesn't affect Audacity?

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Koz

kozikowski wrote:The only other CD player in the house isn't in the house.

Lol. You have such a turn of phrase koz.

kozikowski wrote:I'm using Windows Media Player 9.

Ugh. Have you tried playing it with Foobar 2000 or some other player?
http://www.foobar2000.org/

kozikowski wrote:The individual sound clips I prepared for the CD are in Audacity 1.2.6 and they sound perfect. They sound precisely like the vinyl sounded.

And if you rip the CD, does that sound exactly the same as the files that you burned to CD?
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Found it. It's called "SRS WOW Effects," and it's a "feature" of Windows Media.

As near as I can tell, it's setup isn't in preferences or any of the usual places. It appears in the lower left and it seems, only when you play a CD.

I played a commercial spoken word CD and kept digging until I made the person sound like he was here with me and not on the stage 200 feet away.

So my production CDs are in perfect order.

I won't finish up before my flight back to The Other Coast tomorrow early, so I told my sister to push all the uncut capture WAV files (not Projects) over to a thumb drive and mail it to me. I'll finish splitting up, noise suppression and burning at home.

Thanks.

Koz