Very bad sound quaility in media player

Ricky91t · 07-09-2008 1:27pm #1

Hey all,
ok i dont know what i need to tell you so firstly i'll give you a run down of my laptop,its got 1gb of ram,a P4 3.06ghz and a 120gb hard drive.When i play music(only tested wma) in windows media player it is basically crap audio quaility.
Playing wma's in real player results in the same quaility,but watching youtube videos the audio is fine.Thanks for any help

Soundman · 07-09-2008 2:44pm

What bit rate are the wma files that you are playing encoded to?

CSU · 07-09-2008 2:55pm

If you backup your cd's on the laptop with windows media player there is the option in the settings tab to copy at a higher bit-rate (lossless).

The lower the bit-rate the worse the sound but smaller the file, and obviously the higher the bit-rate the better the sound quality resulting in large file sizes.

If you enjoy good quality sound try to stick to the .wav format and steer clear of .wma and mp3.

Ricky91t · 07-09-2008 5:22pm

See the thing is,iv never had this issue i always convert at 128k and all is ok,iv done the lossless and still no luck some have improved others havn't

Soundman · 07-09-2008 8:44pm

Try updating your Codec Pack then...

If you are using XP -> THIS

If using Vista, then -> THIS

Ricky91t · 08-09-2008 6:20pm

Thanks soundman still no good though

This is really annoying me now totally clean and new xp sp3 install with all the drivers that are meant to be on it and the sound quaility is crap,my mobile phone is better

keen · 08-09-2008 7:33pm

Try playing the audio files through VLC media player, if the sound is the same try updating your sound card drivers.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Very bad sound quaility in media player

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