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    Problem with playing and ripping audio CD's

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rousp, Jan 30, 2011.

  1. rousp

    rousp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a strange problem with playing and ripping audio CD's on my XPS L501.

    • If I try to playback a mp3 file ripped on my other computer everything works fine.
    • If I play a DVD on my computer, everything works fine.
    • When I play or rip a audio CD on the XPS I gett some terrible background noise. Almost as loud as the music. This occurs in both Windows Media Player and in the zune software.

    I have tried:
    • Reinstalling the audo drivers, didn't work.
    • Tried reinstalling the driver for the DVD player. Got an odd error. It stated that this driver was only for the PLDS DVD+-RW DS-8A5SH drive and the detected drive in my system was 0-0-1-0 D: TSSTcorpDVD+-RW TS-L633C DW50. What is that about? There is only one DVD driver from dell?

    Any suggestions as to what I could try?

    -Rousp
     
    rousp, Jan 30, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Have you tried the upper/lower filters fix? You can also run the Microsoft diagnostic/fix utility.

    I personally use VLC, never had an issue with it.
     
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    rousp Notebook Enthusiast

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    No, I haven't tried that fix yet. I'll look around after a guide.

    Where do I find the diagnostic utility? Sorry for my ignorance, I am a returning windows user after several years of mac os x.
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Your CD or DVD drive can't read or write media

    You can try the fix from Microsoft (executable) or you can manually go into the registry and delete the upper/lower filters from the registry and reboot your laptop. Make sure you back up your registry first though. There is also a chance that your optical drive is genuinely defective (albeit rare).
     
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    rousp Notebook Enthusiast

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    Didn't find any faults.

    I'm not redy to modify the register. So I'll just post my problem with dell. :)
     
    rousp, Jan 30, 2011
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