marcusc Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Hi all,I have SonicStage 4.3 CP installed on Vista Ultimate and my music is ripped to ATRAC3 132kbps.While the music sound great on my NW Walkman, the playback of the music within SonicStage sounds awful. There is a crackling sound all the way through every track.Anyone seen this problem, or know how to improve the sound in SonicStage?kind regards,Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juli_ Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 I have Vista Premium and it sounds fine through 4.3. I wonder if it's an 'Ultimate' thing?There isn't a lot of choice for adjusting the sound through SS, except the DSEE enhancement which is really intended for mp3s.Have you tried playing wma files or CDs through Media Player to see if it's a speaker problem? Or try a CD in SS and see if it still crackles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusc Posted April 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Hi Juli,Thanks for replying...I've come back to the PC after having left it running for a while. Vista has now stopped the heavy hard drive access that it likes to do (what on earth is Vista doing?). Now the playback of the ripped music in SS is smooth with no crackling. I'll try ripping some music in windows media player and see if the same thing happens with WMA playback when Vista is busy hammering the hard drive.hmmm.... Perhaps Vista is just too busy doing what it does to process the sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juli_ Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 I've come back to the PC after having left it running for a while. Vista has now stopped the heavy hard drive access that it likes to do (what on earth is Vista doing?). Now the playback of the ripped music in SS is smooth with no crackling.Ohhh, so it's a Vista thing then. As for what it's doing, who knows? I know it takes ages just to apply album art now, and half the time it only applies it to the front cover and not the individual tracks. I didn't have this problem with XP. Next time your hard drive is stressed, try looking at task manager to see what's going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusc Posted April 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 I've since installed Service Pack 1 for Vista and this seems to have reduced the heavy disk access significantly.So now SS runs and plays music perfectly. Adding album art works fine. Takes 2-3 seconds to apply to all tracks on an album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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