what happened to my sound?

I ripped some cd's to my hard drive via windows media player and now my sound is all distorted!!! Please help!!!

 

Hi jessiboogie,

I moved your post to software & services where it will receive better attention.

It could be that both your sound cards mixer settings, and WMP sound settings are both on and conflicting. Try disabling WMP SRS "WOW" enhancements and the WMP equalizer. (view->enhancements> WOW & equalizer)

HTH,

Steve

 

Which sounds are distorted? Just the songs that you ripped from the CD or every sound that is played?

 

Hi steve. im a bit of a rookie. could u tell me exactly how to do that?

 

every sound firecat

 

ok i figured that out. but it didnt work. any thing else?

 

when i have my pc on a couple of days all my music can't be heared all of a sudden the wayi fix it is by restarting my computer.

hope this helps

 

tried that but thanks anyway

 

You can check your Sound Cards settings. (Santa Cruz / Sound Blaster etc) locate the audio cards control panel. Start -> All Programs -> (insert device/manufacturer name) -> Control Panel. Disable any "Effects" and the EQ and try playing a CD again, to see if it sounds any better. If it does, you can re-enable the effects etc. and adjust them to your liking. If it does make a difference or you can't find/don't have these settings try the below.

You can check to see if you have any hardware errors. (I'm assuming your running Windows XP)
Start -> Control Panel -> Performance & Maintenance -> System | then the Hardware Tab -> Select device manager then scroll down to where it say sound, video, and game controllers (it will be highlighted with an exclamation marked if there's an error)

You can also check / Start -> Control Panel -> Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices -> Sound Audio devices -> Double check the Hardware Tab for errors Then go to the Audio Tab -> Under Sound Playback Select Advance -> then the performance tab and select the restore default button.

HTH,

Steve