PHM - Quality issues?

[tymzend]

Anybody ever have any problems with Pop Hits monthly stuff not being the best quality rip to PC?

Last night, we had 5 different songs that had significant flaws in them, enough to where the singer looked back at us when they happened.

I re-ripped a couple of them (at different compression ratios), but the problem still persists.

The CD's themselves are fine.

Any suggestions?

[tymzend]

By the way, I just went through the forum and made the suggested changes, and none of them improved the situation, including disabling the Direct Write.

All of my hardware is supposed to be MTU approved for Hoster, as it is an MTU portable PC.

[S. Parks]

yes I have, see my other post mentioning it in this help forum. I've had several people suggest changes to make, but non of them resolve this issue with these disc.

[djmadmaxx]

i have all the phm discs,(pop, urban, rock and nashville) and don't have these problems.

[tymzend]

There's obviously something different between our systems and yours. The disappointing thing for me is that my PC was provided to me by MTU, so I didn't anticipate these types of issues.

We had another job last night, and every PHM song that was played had a drop in it. I'm sure it's an issue on all of those discs.

I've tried everything on this board, and am close to shipping the PC back to have MTU look at it.

In the meantime, I'm back to using my CD's until this issue is somehow solved.

[gduns - with the Lord]

phm & thmn I have seen this problem mostly because of the intense graphic screens. You will notice it mainly when it is drawing the cover screen. Other then that I haven't had a problem with them.

Try going into the system settings and change your pagefile to 512mg on both the min & max.

[tymzend]

I have 1024 RAM. Shouldn't it be set higher than 512?

I just tried it. No effect on the audio drops. Still there.

[gduns - with the Lord]

512 is more than you need. You could run without a pagefile, but I don't recommend it. Maybe mtu can suggest something. Mine was doing as yours, but I did major tweaking. when I custom build, I set it up different from most, and I havent had the problems like that in a while.

[admin]

We need 3 to 4 PHP KMA files to test with. We can't do any diagnostics on this problem with some test files that show up bad on your system.

Zip one at a time up (so it's not a massive .zip file) and attach each to a separate post, as you can only do one attachment per post.

We are waiting for test files... if you want us to help solve this problem. No test files, no diagnostics on our part.

Work with us and get us some KMA zipped files.

[gduns - with the Lord]

I CAN SEND YOU ONE, I remember it, because I worked for 3 months to get the problem out, and I used it for a test file. It will consistantly give you the problem if your machine isnt set up just right. But the problem I was seeing with it is only during the initial screen draw of the cover screen, it would skip, and the video would also have a pause when it skipped. Let me know, and I will zip and send it.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Tymzend,
The system was tested and working. Have you installed any other programs or hardware?

I see that you have installed this piece of Hardware:

Name: D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter(rev.B)
Device ID: PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0013&SUBSYS_3A131186&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&40
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\A3AB.sys, 3.00.0000.0441 (English), 3/12/2004 20:38:54, 344928 bytes
Driver: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DWLInst.dll, 1.00.0001.21216 (English), 1/27/2003 17:29:54, 24576 bytes

It should be fine, but I don't know. I have never tested this.

Also, I compared your Dxdiag to a new system that is identical to yours, that I am building. You have turned off your DirectDraw. This could cause your problems. Please turn this back on, by doing the following:

1) Click the start Menu. Run. Type in Dxdiag. Click on the Display Tab.

2) Make sure that the 3 buttons at the bottom of this show Disable. If they show Disable, then it menas that they are Enabled. If the buttons show Enable, then the item is Disabled.

Click Exit.

Let me know what happens when you do this.

[tymzend]

DirectDraw was on, and the same thing was happening. Someone suggested to turn it off and try it, and it didn't change anything. I just hadn't turned it back on yet.

The D-link item is for my wireless network. I was having the problems before I installed the PCI card for that.

We'll get this figured out, I hope.

Oh, and, I haven't installed anything new except Windows updates.

[tiggallen]

i have alot of pop hits all get country pop urban and rock every month i have not had any prob with any of this disks causing drop out