SB Live! and Mixer "Audio CD" slider problem
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Posted by Louis on March 20, 2008, 5:35 am
Please log in for more thread options On a freshly installed XP (sp2), I have a SB Live! 5.1 sound card and installed the 5.12.2.252 drivers. The PC has two optical disks devices, a DVD-ROM and a DVD writer. There's an audio cable between the DVD-ROM and the Audio-CD connector on the card, and another connecting the DVD writer to the Aux connector on the card. Despite this, when I put in an Audio CD, it is the WAVE/MP3 slider of the Creative (or XP) mixer which control the volume. Both "Audio CD" and "Aux" sliders seems inoperative. Why is it so ? How can I make the appropriate slider control the Audio CD volume ? Thanks.. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by E on March 20, 2008, 10:49 am
Please log in for more thread options Since this is a fresh install of XP I think digital audio extraction enabled by default, which according to this MS KB article would cause what you are experiencing with the mixer volumes. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271647 HTH Eddie | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Louis on March 20, 2008, 11:27 am
Please log in for more thread options E a formulé la demande :
> Louis wrote:
>> Hello !
>> >> On a freshly installed XP (sp2), I have a SB Live! 5.1 sound card and >> installed the 5.12.2.252 drivers. The PC has two optical disks devices, a >> DVD-ROM and a DVD writer. >> >> There's an audio cable between the DVD-ROM and the Audio-CD connector on >> the card, and another connecting the DVD writer to the Aux connector on the >> card. >> >> Despite this, when I put in an Audio CD, it is the WAVE/MP3 slider of the >> Creative (or XP) mixer which control the volume. Both "Audio CD" and "Aux" >> sliders seems inoperative. >> >> Why is it so ? >> >> How can I make the appropriate slider control the Audio CD volume ? >> >
> Since this is a fresh install of XP I think digital audio extraction enabled > by default, which according to this MS KB article would cause what you are > experiencing with the mixer volumes. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271647 > > HTH > Eddie That's was it ! Changed from "Digital" to "Analog" on device properties and wmp and everything works as expected. Thanks.. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on March 20, 2008, 1:23 pm
Please log in for more thread options wrote:
>E a formulé la demande :
>> Louis wrote:
>>> Hello !
>>> >>> On a freshly installed XP (sp2), I have a SB Live! 5.1 sound card and >>> installed the 5.12.2.252 drivers. The PC has two optical disks devices, a >>> DVD-ROM and a DVD writer. >>> >>> There's an audio cable between the DVD-ROM and the Audio-CD connector on >>> the card, and another connecting the DVD writer to the Aux connector on the >>> card. >>> >>> Despite this, when I put in an Audio CD, it is the WAVE/MP3 slider of the >>> Creative (or XP) mixer which control the volume. Both "Audio CD" and "Aux" >>> sliders seems inoperative. >>> >>> Why is it so ? >>> >>> How can I make the appropriate slider control the Audio CD volume ? >>> >>
>> Since this is a fresh install of XP I think digital audio extraction enabled >> by default, which according to this MS KB article would cause what you are >> experiencing with the mixer volumes. >> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271647 >> >> HTH >> Eddie >
>That's was it ! > >Changed from "Digital" to "Analog" on device properties and wmp and >everything works as expected. Ok but why would you want to transfer analog data over the cable when it should sound better uninstalling the cables and transferring the audio (data) over the data cable for OS decoding and playback or *recording* (converting to a new file)? Perhaps you do want to but for typical listening scenarios you would just check the (Device Manager) properties for the optical drive and make sure the digital audio connector box is checkmarked. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by E on March 20, 2008, 3:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options kony wrote:
> wrote:
> >> E a formulé la demande :
>>> Louis wrote:
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>> That's was it !
>> >> Changed from "Digital" to "Analog" on device properties and wmp and >> everything works as expected. >
> > Ok but why would you want to transfer analog data over the > cable when it should sound better uninstalling the cables > and transferring the audio (data) over the data cable for OS > decoding and playback or *recording* (converting to a new > file)? > > Perhaps you do want to but for typical listening scenarios > you would just check the (Device Manager) properties for the > optical drive and make sure the digital audio connector box > is checkmarked. This is mostly true according to this Annandtech article. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.aspx?i=129 But does this setting in Windows effect third party software that allows you to select either analog or DAE for converting CD tracks to file (ripping)? I thought that as far as ripping CD goes, it could be DAE or analog, depending on your ripping software. As far as playback, the article lists the three methods of getting the CD audio to your speakers, and some disadvantages of DAE. Two of them being high System and PCI traffic, and a noisy drive. The high spinning noisy drive always bothered me. But I usually convert my CDs to MP3s, so I have music with a few clicks of a mouse from the HD. I rarely play the actual music CD more than once in my PC. But to each his own. | |||||||||||||
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> On a freshly installed XP (sp2), I have a SB Live! 5.1 sound card and
> installed the 5.12.2.252 drivers. The PC has two optical disks
> devices, a DVD-ROM and a DVD writer.
>
> There's an audio cable between the DVD-ROM and the Audio-CD connector on
> the card, and another connecting the DVD writer to the Aux connector on
> the card.
>
> Despite this, when I put in an Audio CD, it is the WAVE/MP3 slider of
> the Creative (or XP) mixer which control the volume. Both "Audio CD"
> and "Aux" sliders seems inoperative.
>
> Why is it so ?
>
> How can I make the appropriate slider control the Audio CD volume ?
>