[Scgeeks] Re: RESOLVED Re: RAM voltages

[Indigo]

"Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> Hey, I just had an experience that might help, dunno!  REcall I mentioned 
> I had speaker static pops?

Erm, not really ;-) Been so wrapped up in my own audio problems and ripping 
work my brain ain't got room for nuttin' else! And I'm tired, dude....I'm 
still recovering from my health issues, and my brain has been forced to work 
harder and longer this last week or so than it has in a long, long, time, 
this morning I woke up early and just didn't have the strength or desire to 
get out of bed until 11:30. I *should* take a break, probably will tomorrow, 
hopefully there will be an F1 race on so I can just couch it all day.

But I've got two apps loaded with ripped files waiting to be sliced up so I 
can burn audio disks. The 2nd DVD video disk I ripped  is sitting in DVD 
VideoSoft video to MP3 converter waiting to be converted to MP3, and I'm 
contemplating using the editor in that to trim individual tracks out so I 
don't have to manually listen to them in MP3 Cutter to cut individual 
tracks. The advantage is that I can actually SEE what is going on, 
especially important with the second disk because there's documentary stuff 
mixed in with concert footage. I think I'm going to pop the DVD into my 
"real" DVD player and just use the "skip to chapter" keys to write down the 
start/stop times of the footage I want to convert, it'll be a lot easier I 
think. The first disk I ripped is sitting in MP3 Cutter, just stripped the 
first song out and saved it. Come to think of it, I should watch that DVD 
too to record start/stop times, would save me a lot of time, although I'm 
sure enjoying listening to the music! Damn, David Gilmore and friends (you 
wouldn't believe the lineup he has helping him on some songs) are just 
awesome.


>   So I went and reset the system for Surround sound and made sure the 
> right sound card was selected, and guess what?  The static stopped!  As 
> soon as I clicked OK!  Couldn't hurt to have a look at it on your machine!

That was one of the first places I checked, mostly because I wanted to see 
the audio driver properties.

>   I have NO idea why it worked, or where the noise, static and pops was 
> coming from, but I don't care; it's finally gone!  It's going to seem 
> awfully quiet in here now!

Well, if it's anything like a regular stereo output, mixing phases and 
feeding the wrong data to the wrong speakers can really mess up the amp(s).

>
> As for mixers, I suspect you have at least two software mixers.
>  The first one, just double click the speaker icon in the System Tray.

Oh, THAT thing. Ok, yeah, I know how to work that.

>
> BTW, speaking of freeware: I think the best audio app I have is Audacity 
> (audacity.com).  I especially like the "what u hear" feature - no fussing 
> with selecting the sources.  Of course, if a system message happens to 
> play while you're recording, you'll record that too, but ... <g>.  Very 
> nice app if you're not familiar with it.

I downloaded it in a vain attempt to record streaming XM audio, but it 
didn't work, the XM feed is "special". I tried using it yesterday to cut up 
the big MP3 file, but it choked on it (300MB). That's when I went searching 
again and found MP3 Cutter, which is working fine so far.