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Reply #150 – 2004-12-06 08:41:56
Anyone know why I get the ambulance/alien/screech when playing udial immediately after a different sound file? If I play udial immediately after opening fb2k or after playing the file again then I hear no audible distortion, just the dial tones. However I do hear the distortion if I play udial after playing a different sound file, or after playing udial when it sounded distorted. This is without changing settings of any kind. Upon looking at the fb2k console, the distortion seems to occur after fb2k closes a stream and creates a new one. Pertinent specs: foobar2000 0.8.3no DSPs enabled DirectSound 2.0 with hardware mixing SB Audigy 2 Platinum eXINFO (CORE) : startup time: 250 ms INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback : INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\udial.flac" (0) INFO (foo_out_dsound_ex) : Created stream: 44100Hz 24bps 2ch INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback : INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\sine002-1-philemon-war_is_peace.mp3" (0) INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback : INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\udial.flac" (0) INFO (foo_out_dsound_ex) : Created stream: 44100Hz 24bps 2ch In that instance, fb2k was opened, played udial (no distortions were heard), played another file, and then played udial again (this time, there were distortions).INFO (CORE) : startup time: 219 ms INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback : INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\udial.flac" (0) INFO (foo_out_dsound_ex) : Created stream: 44100Hz 24bps 2ch INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback : INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\udial.flac" (0) INFO (CORE) : opening file for playback : INFO (CORE) : location: "file://D:\udial.flac" (0) In this instance udial is played repeatedly without distortions. So, what's the verdict?