Poor Audio Quality when playing Poodle Hat CD on the PC

rboy27 · Post by **rboy27** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:01 pm

I think the reson it doesn't work well on computers with Windows Media Player is because of the audio format. Its an Enhanced CD which by default plays in Quicktime. By playing through WMP, the audio quality may fail on some levels or you may loose an entire track. Its all depenedent on what version of WMP you have, what patches you have, etc. Ok, I'm done sounding smart now.

-Rich, just Rich

Pugly Wont · Post by **Pugly Wont** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:22 pm

Well I am running Windows XP, and I wasn't able to locate a stand alone cd player. I think its all been integrated into wmp. And even though the enhanced CD part pops up, you can just play from directly from the CD. In wmp there is a thing to play whats in a CD drive.

And I don't think there is an actual problem with my computer or speakers. Because, like I said, the sound quality of other music is great. No problems at all. Just with PH I am having problems.

Very strange problem here.

b-whales · Post by **b-whales** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:14 pm

That's strange. I have Windows XP, and there's no stand alone CD player. The sound quality is fine on my computer. I use RealOne Player most of the time, though. I played some of the songs in WMP before, and they sound fine there, too. Does the CD sound okay in a regular CD player?

Post by **scottidog** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:52 pm

QUOTE I don't have any problems

Your computer wouldn't dare give you any problems.

baldbarry005 · Post by **baldbarry005** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 8:47 pm

my computer has no problems at all with poodle hat, or any other cd, and i play cds in many programs (WinAmp, CD Player, WMP, etc.)

maybe it's your cd-rom drive

my computer has a cd burner and cd-rom drive. when i rip my cds for my mp3 player, i found that when i put the cd in cd-rom drive, it always ripped blank, with no sound. but when i ripped it with the cd burner, it ripped great.

so maybe it is your cd-rom drive, and not the program.

Post by **stupidsurgeon27** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 9:46 pm

My comp has no problems playing the cds.

Now my comp has developed a problem with the home movies.

I get that little nice screen for "Rated Al" then I press play, but I don't get the home movies playing, but I can hear it, but the screen doesn't change.

-CindyBob

Post by **weirdojace** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:47 pm

If you're using CD Player or WMP you shouldn't have any problems.

Are you using the bonus stuff for Song Lyrics? Those songs are compressed and don't sound good. If not, I don't know what the problem is...

BLG123 · Post by **BLG123** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:41 am

I have kind of a different problem with my PH CD in the computer that I didn;t see anyone else post yet. The audio sounds fine, but there are several mispellings in the File names. For example, the artist says Al Yankovich, Couch Potatoe, and there are a few more. And the polka lists all the songs within it. And this is done with Windows Media Player.

Post by **TMBJon** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:58 am

CDDB is weird. There's probably a way inside WMP to change the titles manually.

Post by **scottidog** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 6:45 am

Windows Media Player song info is user submitted. And we all know how bad user spelling can be.