Quote Originally Posted by Panomaniac View Post
Agree 100%. I allow none of the Real Player stuff on my computers, ever! Awful software. I use JRiver as my media player and love it.

BTW, I forgot to mention the soundcard we are using. :doh: It's an M-Audio Fast Tack Pro. Too many knobs and settings for my taste, but still one of the best choices out there. At home I use the old M-Audio USB Duo with good results, and have friends who have used the M-Audio Firewire Solo and Audiophile internal card with very good results.

I'm hoping that we can find what's going on with the glitches. Some sweeps are good, some are not - sometimes without changing a thing. I don't have Vista here (thank God) but do have XP and Windows 7. Gonna test this damn card to see what's up.
Yep the Real player (Rhapsody) wouldn't even play on my computer kept crashing instantly (Junk).That was the first thing I tried,but moved on to Napster which works no problem.As I have a music subscription with them now but relies on windows media player somehow to play.I love the idea of the music subscription though.$14.95 a month I can download anything in there library to my MP3 players.Which I then hook up to my stereo via RCA inputs.I have about 2000 songs in my library for convenience.I have iTunes/Quicktime for my iPhone which is a necessity for an iPhone.You can't use an iPhone without iTunes unfortunately, you can not upload/download anything to an iPhone without there software (iTunes) installed on your computer!

It is looking more and more like a Windows Vista problem then a test gear problem.The problems arise after soundcard is powered down or computer shutdown and restarted/rebooted.But when I setup after restart test signals are clean most of the time it has to be checked constantly to make sure signals are still clean (Distortion Free).Still trying to run it down precisely to confirm exact cause of inconsistency,but my money is on Vista here's the last sweeps now they look great with no problems with the card being calibrated. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.If anyone has seen this before while running Vista I would love to hear a solution,or your procedure to correct a problem that you may have encountered. Thank You !!


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