I hate starting these Windows v. Apple fights since I own both, but somehow I have done something improper and now all I can get out of my speakers is background sound and not the voices of the singers. It is like it is treating my front speakers like rear speakers, and for the life of me I do not know how to fix it and IT IS MADDENING.
*** Update ***
This is the Windows machine. Somehow I had set it to 5.1, but it is fixed. Now I can hear James Brown say it loud that he is black and proud. All is well.
And sweet jeebus, the grammar in this post was atrocious. I think I was having an out of body rage experience when I wrote the earlier post.
Jeff Hebert
Which it is it, the Windows machine or the Mac?
Taylor
Get Linux. Then the drivers won’t work and you won’t have any sound.
Zifnab25
Apparently, installing Ubunto will get you kicked out of your graduate program. At least according to a story I read on Digg.
Laura W
now the voices
Now = Not?
(You’re trying to listen to Sleepy Tigers, huh?)
rachel
Have you maybe set your speakers up to be 5.1 Dolby instead of stereo?
Dan
I will tell you what my IT guy usually tells me – try turning it off and turning it on again.
Joel
I’ll see your scream and raise you an ‘anguished.’
My pipes froze. My house flooded.
The area plumbers won’t come on an ’emergency’ call unless you’re a customer. I said, "If you come, I’ll -be- a customer."
But no. Their policy is to only come to people who, what? Have a plumber on retainer? LIke a guy in a sitcom, the wise-cracking plumbers who’s always around?
RandyH
I had a similar issue a while back. After messing with the drivers and replacing the actual sound card (where I was SURE the problem lied) and still experiencing the problem like you describe, I tried it out with some headphones (plugged directly in to the computer.) Sounded fine.
It turned out to be my speakers so I replaced them. My cat had chewed on the audio cord between the PC and the speakers.
lojasmo
My money is on the windoze machine. ;)
The Other Steve
Somehow you’ve turned on some kind of 5.1 channel thing. That’s impressive, I didn’t even know you could do that.
My favorite was the guy who changed his foreground color to black, and his background color to black and then complained about how he couldn’t see anything.
JL
@Joel: Sorry! Is Joe still in Israel? If you can’t turn off the water at the street, call the city that you live in.
MikeJ
Start menu->control panel->sounds and audio devices
Bottom of the volume tab has a section about speakers. Advanced settings button will let you change them from 5.1 to desktop speakers.
Comrade Darkness
"My cat had chewed on the audio cord between the PC and the speakers."
Blame Tunch!
Joel, yikes!
We had some non-licensed plumbing work done by some very nice Jamaicans. Hasn’t leaked yet. Try calling a general contractor and explaining your situation. He or she may "have a guy" to send your way.
Are you in Montreal, btw? My in laws found out the hard way that contractors had divided the city into non-compete zones so you could only ever hire the guy for your area and if you thought him an idiot or pizzed him off, you were just stuck.
Joel
In Maine. Fortunately, it’s warmed to -6, so everything’s looking good!
And I hadn’t even thought of JTP! I don’t know what I’m thinking.
Finally found someone, though. Yay!
Laura W
fights = fight, also?
CNN covering start of Inaug Live!
JL
@Laura W: Pat from Colorado is great! I already have tears in my eyes.
Laura W
@JL: Ditto.
Omigod.
IT’S ALL HAPPENING!
JL
@Laura W: Goose bumps and tears. I feel like I’m eleven again, watching JFK.
Comrade Darkness
Over your speakers?
I think you may benefit from a few rounds of yoga/mindfulness. Just a thought.
It’s all small stuff.
Laura W
The rage was palpable, John. Thank Dog you have fans who live to correct you in public. (Out-of-body).
James Brown? pppffftttt.
Here’s your mindfulness practice for the morning.
STSF
bago
If you want 5.1 channels of sound, there will be complexities involved due to upgrading from 2 channel sound. One might make the argument that it is at least 2.5 times as complex.
grendelkhan
Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you unleash the nerd rage before. Well played.
(I’m trying to track down a particularly nasty and hard to trigger kernel bug at the moment; I’m on my ninth test kernel, and while I think this one is good, it also has a habit of crashing my X session, causing all of my apps to quit. If only there were something like screen, but for X rather than for character terminals, that’d be nice.