audio pain

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, at 10:23pm, Rich Cloutier wrote:
> Um, the CD audio works the same way in both Windows and Linux. There is no
> digital processing of CD audio tracks by Windows.

  It depends on the application, for both Linux and Windows.  There are
Linux apps that do DAE -- CD Paranoia is likely the best known one. There
are also Windows apps that do analog output.  The "classic" Windows Media
Player that existed from Win 3.0 to Win98 used analog output.  The "new"
Windows Media Player (the WinAmp clone) does DAE by default.  There is a
checkbox buried somewhere in the "Options" dialog that can turn this off,
and revert back to analog output.  I often recommend Windows users do this,
because otherwise, the playback tends to "skip" when system load spikes (we
all know how well Windows does at multitasking).

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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