Song sounds bad in Vixen 2.1.4.0

[magic8192]

I can listen to the song on my radio station played with my media player and it sounds good.  When I play the song in the sequence, the base is distorted and the fast parts of the song seem to drag a little.

I don't think it is a PC problem because the PC is an intel quad core with 3 gb of ram. 
I tried moving the default audio device around to select the audio card and that didn't help.
I tried playing the sequence in the scheduler and that didn't help. 
OS is WinXP service pack 3

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[WWNF911]

Resize the pic used in your profile/preview to one of less resolution and or turn off the preview during your show. (also done in your profile manager.)

Hope that helps.

Leon

[magic8192]

Resize the pic used in your profile/preview to one of less resolution and or turn off the preview during your show. (also done in your profile manager.)

Hope that helps.

Leon

I do have a pretty big image in the preview.  I disabled it in the profile and that did not help though. 

[smartcontrols]

This is a long shot, but I did it once. In Vixen be sure it is set to play it at normal speed. I got so used to a song playing at a slower speed I did not notice it, until the wife said it sounded funny.

[magic8192]

This is a long shot, but I did it once. In Vixen be sure it is set to play it at normal speed. I got so used to a song playing at a slower speed I did not notice it, until the wife said it sounded funny.

The song is set at normal speed.   

I am out of ideas.   I might try to uninstall and reinstall vixen when I get home today.

[rrowan]

How about running the song/show and watch the computer performance from the Windows Task Manager to see what if anything is slowing the computer down?

Rick R.

[aERonAUtical96]

Is this a wave file or MP3?  if it is a mp3, a suggestion to try is to convert it over to .wav via Windoze media player and use the wave file through vixen. 

[magic8192]

It is an mp3.  I will try that when I get home. 

[magic8192]

How about running the song/show and watch the computer performance from the Windows Task Manager to see what if anything is slowing the computer down?

Rick R.

The highest cpu usage for any process was vixen and it never went above 2%.   

[magic8192]

Is this a wave file or MP3?  if it is a mp3, a suggestion to try is to convert it over to .wav via Windoze media player and use the wave file through vixen. 

That did the trick.  Sounds pretty good as a .wav file. 

[aERonAUtical96]

Glad that was able to work for you.  I suspect it was due to the MP3 compression codec.  I would have assumed that vixen is leveraging the same dll as say windows media player, but it may not.  I've heard of people having issues w/ mp3 in vixen... so the typical solution is to use an uncompressed version (.wav file).

[magic8192]

I used audacity to do the conversions and it occurred to me that I haven't updated audacity in several years. 

[Dennis Cherry]

Does Vixen have the same issue with MP3 files as other sequence programs?

The "Variable Bit Rate" to "Constant Bit Rate" issue?

[JoeFromOzarks]

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Rips, converts, just works perfectly.

joe

[Greg]

Does Vixen have the same issue with MP3 files as other sequence programs?

The "Variable Bit Rate" to "Constant Bit Rate" issue?

What problem would that be?

I've used Vixen the past 2 years (versions 2.0.9 and 2.1.3 respectively) with only VBR MP3s with zero problems.

Greg