Posted by: vodkanut
Rio Receiver makes pop sounds on certain songs - 07/11/2004 03:04
My Rio Receiver will make popping sounds on certain songs, in the same location in the song. When playing the song on the PC, it plays fine. I usually use the windows media player to save the original cd to the PC on the highest quality setting. Any ideas? Thanks
Steve
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Rio Receiver makes pop sounds on certain songs - 09/11/2004 00:25
By any chance, are the songs in the WMA format?
And, by any chance, are the songs recorded at 190kbps instead of 160kbps? (If I recall correctly, 160 is the default, and 190 is the high setting. Or something like that.)
A similar problem happened on the empeg-car player. It turns out that the WMA decoder for the ARM chip (which is a binary file- no source code- supplied by Microsoft themselves) had a bug which prevented high-bitrate WMA files from playing properly, and you got pops and such in the files.
If this is what's happening on the Rio Receiver (someone from Cambridge would have to verify if it is), then the only solution is to re-rip those CDs as either MP3 or as lower-bitrate WMAs.
Posted by: vodkanut
Re: Rio Receiver makes pop sounds on certain songs - 09/11/2004 01:41
You guys are great. I kinda sorta follow that answer, part of it, though I don't know what a ARM thingie does. I know binary means 2. My neighbors think I'm a computer wiz cuz I can install a hard drive, ha. I think I did copy them at the 190kbps. I first tried saving them as wav files, thinking that would be best, but the receiver won't read those. I can't find a mention in the receiver manual to what type of files it will read. Can most people hear a difference between these different bit rates? I kinda wonder about the people who claim they hear a big difference between vinyl records and CDs.
Posted by: vodkanut
Re: Rio Receiver makes pop sounds on certain songs - 09/11/2004 03:41
I will worship your image at night.... I'm not worthy...I'm not worthy...I like to dive a bit into the tech world, more than the average coach potato Joe, but nowhere near you guys..My personality is the sales type, but my dad is an engineer, so I have this weird blend. Can anyone ever crack the source codes they use?