Files sound distorted
 

I've been using Hoster for about 6 months... And lately I've started to hear some of the songs sounding distorted. I know that it is not because my amp or preamp are clipping... It's happening with a number of my files. Have you had any cases of this happening. I run hoster on a Dell Inspiron 6000, with the songs being ripped with a Plextor drive and stored in a 200 GB hard drive. The problem happens with songs ripped from different manufacturers. Please help!

Thanks,

What compression ratio did you use? We have had no other clients reporting this.

I bought a new dell inspiron 6000 with a celeron pross and music was so garbled i could not use it.
dell could not figure it out thought it might have had a bad sound card but that was not the problem. never did find out what it was mm jukebox played all garbled to. same as hoster so i traded it in on a 9300 pent m and have not had a problem.
so problem was in inspiron 6000 with celleron. Bob

Having a similar problem w/ OTSDJ / Hoster -- According to OTS -- it's a System Load issue -- They (OTS) has an adjustable buffer for it's Audio -- sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.

When this happens, I've started monitoring my 'System Performance' and seeing what's going on -- Haven't learned anything definitive, but still investigating -- OTS also suggested going to a pcmcia sound card -- high end -- I havent' headed that way yet --

Hope this is helpful

prmckay1 What Computer Are you using

That is odd, I have never seen a system, slow or fast that I have built over the years that garbaled the audio.

This is really wierd, to happen with a new Dell Laptop.

Notebook: HP NX9010
512mb Ram

-- XP Pro OS

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Motherboard was replaced by HP in Sept 05 --(not related to the audio issue)

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Sound is 'scratchy' -- used to reboot entire computer thinking it was a driver load issue --

Also have tower computer that exhibited a similar, but different issue @ another event -- front speaker jacks scratchy -- rear jacks fine -- I was able to use OTS Cue/On Air function to swap channels and all was fine for the event -- came home -- tested - reloaded drivers -- ASUS motherboard Top end -- w /sound on motherboard -- now all's fine -- front/back --

Weird!

FYI