Sound Distortion When Ejecting Disk

I don't recall whether this happened from the beginning, when I bought the laptop but lately it's just been getting more annoying.

When some music is playing, whether on last fm/ itunes or windows media player and I eject this disk (Fn + F8), the music gets distorted for 2 seconds while the disk is ejecting. I've reformatted this laptop (through Alienrespawn complete recovery) about 4 times for various other reasons and this problem hasn't been fixed.

Any ideas what it could be and is anyone else experiencing this? I haven't updated any audio drivers, could that be it?

 

I've had this problem from the beginning. I've updated my sound card drivers and still have it. It doesn't really bother me.

 

sadly, this is normal. i really wish AW would fix this.

 

Ah I see. I was afraid this was a widespread problem.. ah well, nothing we can do about it now.

 

I even get this problem in other operating systems...

 

I'm a victim of this annoyance too. Frustrating when you want to listen to music whilst ripping large numbers of CDs.

 

the only "fix" I can offer, is use a software eject command. EG: keep an explorer window open to "my computer" and select (but don't open) the cd-rom drive, and in the command bar thing, just below the address area, "Eject" appears.

Press that. no lag.

it's a bit of a PITA, but hey, it's the price you pay for uninterrupted music.

I'm sure SOMEONE can make a simple system-tray application that's simply an icon of an eject button, and when you click it, it ejects the try via software (eliminating the problem altogether)... unfortunately, I have my own problems and I can't help anyone on this one.... sorry.

 

yes this is normal. Definetly sucks.

 

*cough* findvikas, where are you? *cough*

 

i have this problem. i dont get distortion tho. my music just stops for a second an then it resumes. its not that big of a deal since i dont use the cd drive that much. and when i am playing music on my m15x all my music is on the second hard drive so i never noticed it until recently.

 

the distortion everyone is talking about is actually a system delay fault. the system stops responding for 1/4 second while it processes the eject command VIA the BIOS (which stops everything to perform it's task)... the distortion is actually the buffer looping.

the way sound playback actually works, and the way we percieve it, is very different, the playback device is given a set of data for the buffer, and told to play. the buffer is updated with new data when the playback device has made it most of the way through the buffer, updating only the part of the buffer that has already been read from. the playback device essentially loops through the buffer over and over again. if it stops receiving updates to the buffer, the sound loops over and over again until the device is told to stop, or the buffer gets updated.

when the system freezes to process the eject command, the buffer is no longer updated, but nothing has told the playback device to stop playing, so it keeps cycling through the same small segment of sound.

this is a HARDWARE buffer only, and I don't think we have much control over it's size. due to the length of the loop, I think it's pretty obvious that the buffer is tiny. Increasing the buffer should provide a more comfortable listening experience, that is immune to the lags of the system, but again, I think it's the hardware buffer that's looping, and there isn't much we can do to increase that.

if you're using an external audio card, or a different player than the rest of us (I think most here are talking about WMP?) then the player could have configured the device to stop if buffer updates aren't happening... or if you're using an external audio card, it could be configured that way automatically.

either way, something is different. try hitting Fn + F8 while listening to something using WMP via the on-board HD-audio device... you'll probably get the same thing.