Playing HD version

The album's sounding really great in HD but weird things keep happening.Every now and then the sound keeps almost completely dropping out then bouncing back in again.Like for example in Tutti Frutti at parts where the beat stops and there's the little sound effects before the beat comes back in it's like my player (WinAmp) can't handle it and the sound drops almost right out.Then on Plastic the sound keeps swaying in and out and all over the shop! I actually don't think it's a problem with the download but my WinAmp settings.I've got the equaliser switched to on and setting on Rock, or sometimes Bass & Treble.Is anyone an expert on using WinAmp? Not having the equaliser on results in a bit of a crappy shit sound so i really want the equaliser on.

This is a snaphsot of the equaliser settings i have .

Anyone good with using and getting the best out of WinAmp?

This is highly unlikely to be a problem with WinAmp itself. I would think that you've got problems with disk access speeds and quite possibly the specification of your PC.

The HD audio is 96kHz 24bit stereo so it is probably being resampled in the box prior to playback (unless your soundcard can handle 24-bit 96k natively.)

I take it you are using WinAmp because it's the only software that you have that can play FLAC files? I'm loading the individual tracks into Audacity and playing them back through a 24-bit audio interface (albeit one that can only manage a sample rate of 48kHz.)

Thanks for the reply edspess.But crikey that's a bit technical for me- i don't know anything about my soundcard, ain't got a clue.My laptop isn't that old- i bought it brand new in 2014.It's a Packard Bell TE69KB series is all i know, oh it's AMD A4 Quad Core.It was cheaper end of the market though.

I do also have VLC player as well as WinAmp but i couldn't get a good sound that i liked using that.

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There's no real excuse for a machine of that age to be struggling with playback of this kind of audio file. I couldn't find any details of the built in sound but sadly the audio system is one of the first things to suffer when manufacturers are looking to cut costs. WinAmp originated in the early days of MP3 playback and I would guess (but I don't know for sure) that it probably uses its own decoders to play audio through the PC hardware IF that is the case then you might want to try playing it with some other software or, alternatively, it wouldn't be too difficult to convert the FLACs to very high quality MP3s which might be more to WinAmp's liking.

If it's any consolation, in this day and age nobody should need to understand any of this shit!

Thanks.I looked up how to find what sort of soundcard i have and under "Sound, video and game controllers" its says "AMD High Definition Audio Device" and "Realtek High Definition Audio" if that's of any help. I played a couple of tracks earlier and the problem didn't seem to occur.. but when it does happen it just seems to be at certain places in Tutti Frutti and Plastic, strangely.Not to worry it's not a big deal but thanks very much for your replies, edspess. I might try with VLC again at some point and see if i can get a better sound than i have previously with that player.

Thanks NotAMod.

It's ok it seems to have calmed down more now for some reason!

I think the problem I do have now is listening to anything in other than HD sounds incredibly flat and boring. I've been caning the HD Music Complete on some great £100 headphones and now any other format sounds pish, even the actual CD.

after listening to the files for music complete, from CD and other sources.

they seem too loud and brickwalled also.

will be checking out the vinyl versions, and will probably have to remaster those as well....

looks like the HD files all have that problem also.

later -1