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Audio question
« on: May 14, 2003, 08:48:33 pm »
I'd like to have music playing in the background as I play, but when I have Winamp running, then start a game, whatever's playing in Winamp significantly loses some of its sound quality and clarity, but the Mame sound doesn't take a hit.  

Is it the sound card?

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Re:Audio question
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2003, 09:02:02 pm »
Quote from: rhoelsch on May 14, 2003, 08:48:33 pm
I'd like to have music playing in the background as I play, but when I have Winamp running, then start a game, whatever's playing in Winamp significantly loses some of its sound quality and clarity, but the Mame sound doesn't take a hit.  

Is it the sound card?



Sounds like the PC speed/RAM

What CPU and RAM is on there?  And what version of winamp? The newest ones do suck, as soon as I go background with winamp 3 or the latest 2.x download available, it gets choppy just like when I first ever tried winamp in 1998 with 32megs of ram, upgrading to 64 fixed that.  But right now I have almost 2GHz and 512MB Ram so it's winamp's fault.

I had to roll back to winamp 2.77 and now I'm good again.

Otherwise maybe the settings in winamp for Priority are screwed up, maybe it's set to not take much tasking priority and will allow other programs to get the system resources...
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Re:Audio question
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2003, 09:10:50 pm »
Currently, I'm on a 300 k6-2 with 96 megs o' ram.  My cab will be getting something beefier soon.  Winamp version was 2.x, haven't tried it yet with the latest version.  
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Re:Audio question
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2003, 09:18:59 pm »
Quote from: rhoelsch on May 14, 2003, 09:10:50 pm
Currently, I'm on a 300 k6-2 with 96 megs o' ram.  My cab will be getting something beefier soon.  Winamp version was 2.x, haven't tried it yet with the latest version.  

It could very well be the CPU speed and ram....although my 64 megs solved the problem years ago, maybe over the years winamp also required more headroom and 96  at 300MHz isn't adequate.
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