Comments on: Windows Vista Sound Problems

By: Larry Osterman's WebLog

Larry Osterman's WebLog — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:53:51 +0000

[...] Pirillo had an interesting blog post the other day with the rather uninformative title of "Windows Vista Sound Problems". He has a reader who built a shutdown sound that is almost 2 minutes long, and that reader [...]

By: Attendees | Gnomedex

Attendees | Gnomedex — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:20:03 +0000

[...] Windows Vista Sound Problems August 1, 2007 - 2:00am I’m not sure about this one. Could either be tied into the Windows sound event process or the audio driver’s limitations? My name is Chris Proctor... Related Content:Creative Sound Windows Vista Audio WarningMicrosoft Windows VistaVista vs XPWindows Vista: Lipstick on a PigWho Needs Windows Vista?Copernic Desktop Search FeedbackWindows Vista LaunchSwitching from XP to Vista to XP... [...]

By: jt

jt — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:33:35 +0000

i think windows vistais te wors peice of crap computer money will ever buy i cant blieve it i brought a computerto play my music and so that others online can listen too aswell whilt haveing a coffee and a conversation/do buisness only to find that they can hear my mic and nt my music and it really sux so in a couple of months i am oig to smash my vista computer and never look back or ever get a vista computer unless i can find a programme that will allow me to do 1 thing ,that being playing sound to my friends/co workers.

btw you know of any??? prgrammes that are compatible with this pitiful excuse for a computer named windows vista???

By: Swami

Swami — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:49:56 +0000

There is a problem while recording.If speakers are connected no sound is heard if we connect Head phone, sound is only heard in either instruments so how can this problem be resolved.We are using Windows Vista Home premium.The system we are using is HP Pavilion dv2519tu.
Please suggest me .

By: Chris Proctor

Chris Proctor — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:41:37 +0000

Well … I tried it. No dice. Oh well. I’m not computer-savvy enough to make it work for me. At least I tried. At least I can still keep the sound files I’ve built. Thank you all for your input, I appreciate it. Thank you especially to Larry Osterman, who wrote what the file size limit is for a shutdown sound. I’ll keep that in mind. And also, a big thank you to Chris Pirillo for hosting this forum.

Thanks, everybody!

By: Chris Proctor

Chris Proctor — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:36:01 +0000

Wow, I guess I really am just a noob when it comes to this sort of thing. I don’t understand half of what you guys are talking about. (And all my friends think I’m a computer genius. Shhh! Don’t tell!)

I think what I’m going to do is follow the advice that Larry Osterman gave in his weblog response to my e-mail and try to severely shrink the file sizes of the sound clips I want to use. That, at least, I can do.

The rest of the proposed answers (thank you to all of you kind strangers out there who posting something potentially meaningful) I’m not going to try. Why? It’s a rule I’ve given myself, and I think it should be a universal computer axiom. “If you don’t know it, DON’T TOUCH IT!!!!”

For the sake of this forum, I’ll give an update to see if I can get my modifications to work.

By: Scott Kindorf (ScottK)

Scott Kindorf (ScottK) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:23:17 +0000

I don’t know, Tim – I’m running Vista 32bit on a DFI LanParty motherboard with integrated video (yes, I’m running 32bit Vista on a 64bit hardware platform (I’m a rebel…I ride like that, etc) and have had only one problem with the new hardware architecture…and that was solved by only a minor software tweak in the streaming audio streamer that I use. If I were Mr. Proctor, I would (of course) make sure that he has the most stable (and not the most recent) release of the audio drivers for his system. If your hunch is right about AC’97 audio hardware, then the most recently released drivers should fix the problem. It’s a shame that we don’t know more about his sound hardware or we (the rest of the people who frequent this site) could be able to steer him in the right direction. I use the AC’97 audio on my motherboard and it works just fine and sounds great – it all depends on the implementation and the drivers, and chances are that Mr. Proctor has hit a snag. Chris, if you’re using sound hardware that it on your motherboard, head on over to the manufacturer’s site and see if they have new drivers. The same would apply if you have an actual sound card in one of the PCI slots.

–S

By: Chris Proctor

Chris Proctor — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:09:28 +0000

Well … I LIKE to think I’m a little more computer-savvy than the average person, but, in response to Tim Wendel, … uh, what?

How do I change the settings for my audio driver? Is it even possible, without finding a different driver altogether, that is? Or what about Mr. Pirillo’s other suggestion about the sound event process? Is it possible to jump in there and change a few things to get my sounds to work?

(And, on a completely different note, I’ll give out info on how I’ve been creating .wav and .mp3 files of video game music and sfx to anyone who’s interested. Oh … and, uh, video games rule!)

By: Norman Rasmussen

Norman Rasmussen — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:53:00 +0000

If it’s a local custom theme only, then you can probably get away with a batch file to play the audio, then shutdown the machine. The startup sound could be placed in the autostart list. For a theme that you want to distribute this doesn’t really work, but for a personal theme it’ll be fine.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:52:14 +0000

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2007/08/02/hey-my-custom-shutdown-sound-got-cut-off-or-didn-t-play-what-s-up.aspx

By: Tim Wendel

Tim Wendel — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:15:51 +0000

I blame Vista for everything. Especially sound related. I mean Microsoft removed friggin’ DirectSound for crying out loud… I went back to XP, and my X-Fi Fatal1ty Platinum thanks me for that.

But yeah, it’s probably a sound driver issue, and this person is most likely using the wonders of quality integrated audio.

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By: Larry Osterman's WebLog

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Windows Vista Sound Problems