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Thread ID: 83355 2007-09-28 19:30:00 WMA audio problem Mr Wetzyl (362) Press F1
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596053 2007-09-28 19:30:00 Hey there i just tried playin a wma audio and it hisses...wot is causing this...mp3s and oggs and wav files etc works fine but wma hisses if being played using winamp....This never happens before...what codec should I be diagnosing here since everything else is fine.... Mr Wetzyl (362)
596054 2007-09-29 04:42:00 I wish I had a concise answer . . . but I don't .

I can only suggest that you check a few things first . . . .

How are you getting the WMA files into your system?

Are you using Audacity? If so are you sure that you have the open mike turned off?

This could apply to other media capture devices too . . . I have heard myself talking in the back of an Audacity files once in a while . . Ughhh!

Makes me angry when I do that . . but I think there are more than one way to contaminate a file in the way you are hearing .

I particularly hate it when I get an IM and Audacity is spooling music or a Podcast and the "bong" noise from the IM gets included .
SurferJoe46 (51)
596055 2007-09-29 21:15:00 . . . just heard a phone-in to Leo LePorte's show about this very problem .

He says: "WMP is NOT a very good playback device at all . . . (I don't really agree, but I am contrary anyway) . . he says it's the AAC or ACC code-thing having to do with Dolby sound . . . and that Dolby sound sucks in reality, and isn't all that well understood by most people .

If you have tried setting the playback values in WMP to default, and it still sounds bad, get another player!"

So ends the quote which I think is very concisely what he said, after all I put it in quotation marks for that reason .
SurferJoe46 (51)
596056 2007-10-02 16:06:00 Ok...Anyways I give up and only listen to mp3s now Mr Wetzyl (362)
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