loud static when trying to play

[tcgacs]

I am testing hoster and Microstudio for a local bar. Everything seems to work okay, but when I try to play a track I get a loud static that has a beat to it overtop of the song and no lyrics in the window, almost like the graphics are trying to play though the sound card. I am using cd+g disks that play fine in his Sonys. The songs react the same way from either program but the cd audio plays fine in Windows media player. I am using Windows XP Home on an IBM 300GL (PIII-733MHz), an Nivida Gforce2 (64Mb AGP), ESS Allegro Sound card and GCE 8240B CDRW.

Any help would be appreciated as he seriously wants to get away from the disks.

[MTUSUPPORT]

This problem is the GCE CD-R drive. It is listed as incorrectly showing Yes for Karaoke at: http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?threadid=1106

The only drives that will correctly work are the Plextor brand of drives. These other drives partially support the CD+G, but not enough for it to correctly work. This is the reason it does this.

[tcgacs]

Thanks for the response. I switched to a Plextor drive and the problem cleared up. I forgot to post again to let you know what I had found.

Ken Inman
TCG Affordable Computer Solutions