Music static on computer

[Skip]

Maybe someone else has experienced this. I have a 6 speaker surround sound system on my computer, when we play music from the files on the computer, there is a static sound. When we play a video from youtube or something like that, it doesn't do it. Any ideas? :1zhelp:

 

[jordanmills]

There's a few things it could be. Most likely, it's poor encoding on the files. It might be the media player. Youtube appears to use mp3 for the audio stream, so it should use the same codec to render the audio as your mp3 files. Unless the music you're playing from the computer isn't encoded in mp3.

 

[Dcav]

could be a low quality file as well. I have tons of music on the computer and I come across some pretty crappy quality from time to time.

 

[smschulz]

Define 'static'.

 

[Skip]

Define 'static'.

umm...I dunno.... it just sounds like static. not sure how to describe the noise other than that.

 

[Dcav]

Is the music from cd playing(via the cd/dvd drive), or from files (mp3's)

 

[Skip]

Is the music from cd playing(via the cd/dvd drive), or from files (mp3's)

CD's play fine, it's just all the music we have in files on the desktop.

 

[Dcav]

What player do you use? Win-amp, VLC, etc?

I use winamp for music. There are different quality music files for sure:

KBPS (kilabits per second)128,is a normal "ripped" file quality. Which will produce decent audio quality. Anything lower then that you will hear static. I have alot of files at 192kbps, and sounds crystal clear. Check to see what the music player displays when playing a few different files. I can e-mail you two files one at 55kbps (low quality) and one at 192 kbps (high quality) so you can tell the difference.

 

[Skip]

Well, Dcav must be good luck. He sent me a couple of songs so we could try to figure it out. NO STATIC!!!! I went back to the music on my computer and played a couple of songs...NO STATIC!!!!! Quick Dcav, tell me some lotto numbers...

 

[Dcav]

Glad it seems to have gotten fixed. And man dont I wish I was that lucky for the lotto