Windows Media Player 10 stuck in "quiet mode" |
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Windows Media Player 10 stuck in "quiet mode" |
  Oct 24 2005, 16:42
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Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 12-May 05 Member No.: 22012  |
My Windows Media Player 10 seems to have become stuck in "quiet mode", whereby all the dynamic range of music sounds squashed, compressed, limited and/or clipped. The same music files play normally with other players like Winamp, and of course they used to play fine with Windows Media Player before this started happening.
I tried reinstalling WMP10 over top of the existing installation but it didn't solve the problem. I'm not sure if the player is actually stuck in "quiet mode" or if it's compressing the audio for another reason. It doesn't look like a sound driver problem though (nVidia) since my other players aren't affected, although I did update to the latest version. Suggestions? |
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Oct 24 2005, 19:16
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Group: Members Posts: 284 Joined: 17-October 05 Member No.: 25178 |
Have you looked to see what DSP / Equalizer settings WMP has active? Perhaps there is something in there.
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Oct 24 2005, 19:24
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Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 12-May 05 Member No.: 22012 |
All the EQ and DSP options are turned off. That includes Volume Leveling and Quiet Mode, yet it sounds like one of those are affecting the audio anyway. Also I don't have any additional DSP plug-ins installed.
This post has been edited by Carnivore: Oct 24 2005, 19:31 |
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Oct 24 2005, 23:22
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Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 1-April 05 From: California Member No.: 21106 |
Same behavior from any form of audio, even WAV?
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Oct 24 2005, 23:30
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This is not gonna solve your problem, but why would you want to use windows media player these days when you can choose from so many better audio players freely available on the net?
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Oct 24 2005, 23:57
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Sure I use some other players too, but I like to keep my options open. I actually don't find Windows Media Player so bad (other than this bug) and I'd like it get it back to working properly.
In response to grommet, it's happening on WAVs, videos, everything. |
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Oct 25 2005, 06:02
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Group: Members Posts: 397 Joined: 2-October 04 Member No.: 17436 |
Do you have any DShow filter like ffdshow that 'normalizes' audio files installed?
Shouldn't have anything to do w/ it, but hey... This post has been edited by sh1leshk4: Oct 25 2005, 06:05 |
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Oct 25 2005, 06:33
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Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 12-May 05 Member No.: 22012 |
QUOTE (sh1leshk4 @ Oct 25 2005, 01:02 AM) Do you have any DShow filter like ffdshow that 'normalizes' audio files installed? Thank you! I had installed a "video" codec pack a few days ago (Theorica) in an unsuccessful attempt to play an unrecognized AVI file, and ffdshow was a part of it. Luckily there was an uninstaller. Problem solved. It's not the first time I've been burned by one of those all-in-one codec packs, I guess they're just bad news. Anyway, I knew I'd get an answer here -- I really appreciate it sh1leshk4.
Shouldn't have anything to do w/ it, but hey...  |
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