shawa

I'm using Vista with Windows Media Player 11 and when I ripped a CD, the quality was off.

Is this normal or is it likely to be some kind of copy protection on the CD (there's nothing on the sleeve about copy protection)?

I heard there are some kind of protection features in Vista, but I thought it only applied to playing HD content.

It's my own CD.

Thanks.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Try another app like audiograbber.

PeteBrant

Go into properties and see what bit rate you are ripping at.

InvisibleMan

how come the visuals are the same old naff fractals, you would have thought theyd make them new, bright & glowing for vista

Iain Young

WMP11 has nothing to do with vista. It's an addon program that works with both XP and Vista, so I'd expect the visuals to be the same. Personally I turn them off because I find them annoying

InvisibleMan

with dx9 power they could have put some effort into it, like the visuals in 360, they look good

Iain Young

Yes. But then they were written by Jeff Minter

lightning101

Llamas

shawa

It's not caused by the bit rate; that's 256kbps.

Just to clarify, it's like there's some intermittent electronic interference and spiking. It's minimal, but it's clearly there and annoying...

I think it's down to the CD.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Or the drive.

Iain Young

Or the power supply