those weird noise in the stream

[Mummu]

no i mean not this stupid song with "god created man, man created machine....." i hate that to, no i mean this grinding noise in the higher frequencys, over all the stream, does it come from your site or is it on mine, or somewhere between?


ps
http://www.isketch.net/

[Tarryk]

It's an issue with sound clipping, often during playlists many different songs are at different volumes, and it's a very difficult process to normalize a large directory of mp3's for even volume.

So in order to keep some songs from being too quiet to hear, we have to keep it at a volume that occasionally makes some songs too loud. The volume level clips at 0dB, and you get crunchy static.

When there's a live DJ on, we usually keep an eye on the dB levels to keep that from happening, but an unattended playlist will still do it now and again.

[Mummu]

ahh...ok
just cause i never noticed anything like it before, and now its always,
but under linux i have not noticed it.

[Xtrophic]

If you hear it always now it's most likely a setting on your system. One thing that can cause this is the use of Winamp Equalizer.

[Nurgle]

never use Winamp equalizer unless you can attend to it while your listening...

Off course I have this nice stable curve that seems to play everything fine

[Mummu]

hmm... zoomed again several times through winamp options but couldnt find nothing.
so i reinstalled winamp, and it s a lot better now.
seems like there is now just the little disturbence caused by ya volume correction and/or the stream quality, and thats a minor one just from time to time, better from song to song.

too bad i ll never find out what it was exactly.