What did I do ?! Now I can't reference !

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help !

I can't figure out which setting I changed to cause this-

I used to be able to turn on my external soundcard, then put a CD in the PC tower, and get it on my Yorkville Studio monitors, for referencing my mixes with studio CD's.

I hadn't done this in the last 3 months,, now all the sudden this has stopped working,,, but it works once I turn the soundcard off and have the PC speakers on---

searched hi& low for some sort of setting somewhere I may have messed up- any ideas? The PC CD player isn't recognizing my soundcard for some reason?. Luckily my recording software is still alright & working normal.

this is such a mystery, especially since it used to work fine.

The PC and the Windows media player are communicating alright when I use the PC speakers. This is problem is happening with Winamp too.

I don't know if this is a clue,

but when I use the Windows Media Player + CD in the PC tower + PC speakers not only does the sound work properly but I get the Visualization (bouncing EQ bars)

When I turn off the PC speakers and use my soundcard and my monitors, the Visualization does =not= start up (of course no sound either). But the CD info comes up properly and the time marches on when the track plays.

I checked all the Windows volume/mixer settings and they all look right, nothing is muted and all faders are up.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Alan
 
you mentioned an external soundcard but omitted telling us what it is !!
whats the brand ?
masybe you should think what changes you made to your pc in the last 3 months ? or maybe you download a program that changed some settings ?
 
MadAudio said:
What sound card?
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hi, its an Edirol UA-5 external USB soundcard box-thing

its weird. I mean everything works perfectly when recording/monitoring with the soundcard and my software (Cakewalk + Edirol UA-5)

and it worked perfectly a few months ago
 
manning1 said:
you mentioned an external soundcard but omitted telling us what it is !!
whats the brand ?
masybe you should think what changes you made to your pc in the last 3 months ? or maybe you download a program that changed some settings ?
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yeah sorry, I just put it above

I definitely have installed new stuff recently - games, anti-virus, etc..

but I can't find the settings to check. I think I've checked all the obvious ones, are there some deeper innerds to the Windows Media player in particular that I can get to ?
 
This may seem like a really obvious question but...
Are you sure that in the Sound settings
(Under the control panel) the Edirol is set for playback?
 
Hmm... odd. I had a similar problem here at work... It was with the integrated audio card and was simply that the Audio cable wasn't connected from the CD-ROM to the Motherboard... I know that's not the case here though...
 
Disposable said:
Hmm... odd. I had a similar problem here at work... It was with the integrated audio card and was simply that the Audio cable wasn't connected from the CD-ROM to the Motherboard... I know that's not the case here though...
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yikes maybe my daughter banged into my PC tower on accident (that I don't know about)
I'll check it tongiht
thanks again
 
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