Creative Media Source Player 3.30.21 say it isn't

I just did a fresh Windows xp install and of course Creative with all the latest updates. All has gone very well but now the player is missing the slider that indicates the progress of the tune. The was very handy when listening/burning discs and so forth. Please tell me I'm an idiot and I just need to do this...(insert instuctions here)
Otherwise, should I revert to an older version, and if so, which? Thanks...

Doh, thats an issue and a half you have there M8.
Id just re-install again.
I personally install my drivers like so :
Install of CD.
Run Auto Update.
Thats it
Hoep that hel
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There are differences in the details of how the various Creative soundcards work, and it would help me if I knew which one you have. I get the impression it came in the computer, and you don't actually know the answer. Where exactly are you trying to select what u hear? The Creative Media Source Player program (I've not used it, but it seems odd for a "player" program to do recording)? The mixer program? Which mixer, Windows or Creative's?
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Creative Media Source Player clipped tracks problem

I am using the Creative Media source player (Version 5.0.38 with all updates) to play mp3 format tracks on my pc - Windows XP . Increasingly I find that the last few seconds are being clipped off each track. This does not happen if I use Itunes player. Is there a fix for this?
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I use iTunes store for buying music pretty much and receive files in MPEG4 format.
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Until recently, my Media Source Player 5 has been working normally, with no problems. But starting about a week ago, each time I try to start the player, I get the following error message:
Creative Media Source Player 5 has stopped working
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Check online for a solution and close the program, or
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click start?, ?all programs , click on the creative folder , find creative mediasource5 folder then find the creative media source 5 player and right click on it and select run as admistrator . that should work as i had same problem this worked for meMessage Edited by Toronto699 on 05-9-2008 06:9 PM

Creative Media Source 5 SVM Time Scale Clean Up Prob

hi, im Using the Creative Sound Blaster Li've! 24 Bit sound card and using Creative Media Source Player 5 to play my?audio and video files. I get a problem, however, when i start to play a song from my Library,?The first message reads(this is when i double click to song to play it): Exception --CreateObject : Exception:ObjectNotFound? from:CTimeScaleFilter Message:"Could not load Time Scale Filter" (after that message it tells me when this problem happened)?The second one reads(after i click ok): Exception --CreateObject : Exception:Undefined? from:CNoiseReductionFilter? Message:"Could not load Noise Reduction filter"? (and then the time it happened)?Third Message reads: Exception --CreateObject : Exception:Undefined? from:CSvmFilter? Message:"Could not load Time Scale Filter" (and then the time it happened)?does anyone know why this happens when i play a song from my playlist or otherwise? and right after i stop playing the song, i can click on the time scale, svm, and clean up like nothin happened, i can change the settings and what not....its really starting to tick me off because it Just worked, and then i closed out of the program and started it back up again, and now it Doesnt work, please help, and it would be awesome if i could fix it without reinstalling the sound card, its drivers, and the like...

Ok, followed your instructions, installed media source direct from the cd from explorer from directory CMS/Setup to the setup.exe file. Intall took longer this time, but, still no Creative Media Source installed -
still have the same problem. Still need more help.

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Hey I just bought a new Zen player, and I noticed while ripping and uploading songs that the album art does not come along with it if I'm using the creative media source software. Now if I use my windows media player that came with my vista computer I do get the album art. So now my question is if Creative media source can't even do this simple task what is the benefit of using creative's media source? Are there things that it can do that windows media player can't do? Which is a better product to use? :smileyindifferent:angry:

tapdiggity wrote:
And I guess another benefit to creative mediasource is converting video files for playback on the zen. Windows media player I don't think has a converter for video files for the zen.
That is part of the Creative Media Explorer not MediaSource. The Video Converter is slooow & not that great. I do use the Media Explorer it is better for making & editing playlists.

Creative media source and Live!

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Perhaps you've installed some of that updated modded stuff? (I've tried it at times too, but always returned to the official 252 driver/software Uni-Pack stuff.)
The software you've got is not designed for the Li've series of cards. If you used the official cd's for the Audigy 2 series (not ZS), it all works as long as you choose not to install EAX Console and Speaker Calibrator. You should also not install MediaSource Player, choosing instead the PlayCenter 3.02.52 and , on XP, updating it to 3.02.70.
You'll probably need to use the ctcomp.exe (search) on the Audio\language\Setup\Setup.exe file. So you'd need the cd copied to a folder on your harddri've so you can let ctcomp adjust the files.
Then you run AudioHQ and choose to run on startup and load in systray in the options dropdown and use the EAX Control applet to control your effects. The AdvancedEQ effects work as long as you choose the effect, click the ParametricEQ in the center, then tick the volume slider tab with your mouse, exit and save. You need to do this everytime you apply an effect.
Or, you can install the U-UPAX stuff which has been modded (driverheaven forum for links). I believe MediaSource works with their setup.
I'm telling you though, your card will not give you any extra stuff it is not hardware designed to provide. So, you still only get EAX and 2, no Advanced HD EAX 3 or 4.
And, the sound quality for music is superior with the official 252 Li've Uni-Pack setup. Unless you like overwhelming, booming bass and the midrange missing sounds. Those updated Audigy 2 and up drivers may have settings and files for the Li've, but they are tuned for the Audigy 2 and up.
The 3 best optimizations made for the Li've were the old Li'veware 3.0 vxd drivers, the APS mod for the Li've (both for 9x), and the kXProject drivers (for XP). By far the most problem free software package was the Li've Uni-Pack. And it sounds okay.
So there you go. Now, if after you uninstall whatever you've got, the setup file of the package you select doesn't say "No SoundBlaster hardware installed" you'll be lucky. Modern Creative drivers oftentimes remove something when uninstalled that messes up the hardware detection and if installing with CTZAPP doesn't magically let the software setup recognize the card again then only a format will fix it.

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Cheese32 wrote:
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Cheese32 wrote:
Yes I realize that--I'm thinking more specifically that CMS5 doesn't play well with SP3? The problem with your solution is that I don't like WMP. At least, I don't like the fact that you can't play your music straight from your device. You have to sync your device and copy all of your music onto your hard dri've to play from the device connected to the computer. That was mainly what I used CMS5 for--playing music directly from my device through the computer?without having to copy all of its contents onto my hard dri've. I keep my music stored on my Zen Microphoto so it doesn't take up space on my computer...
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ps.
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Hi, i figured this should go in here.
Everytime i try to run creative media source i get the "Creative MediaSource Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." error message and it just wont open. The error i get says it has something to do with the file "C:\DOCUME~\BARRYT~\LOCALS~\Temp\WER687.tmp.dir00\ appcompat.txt" but i am sceptical as to how much this file actually has to do with anything. I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas as how to fix this.
Also if it is unfixable, is there anyway to back up my music library so i can reinstall creative media course without having to re-add all my MP3's (i keep them on various locations on my PC you see, i also fear if i reinstall, ill have to tag all my files via mediasource again)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Delete every files and folders under "C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\Application Data\Creative\MediaSource" and try launching MediaSource again.

Creative Media Source won't install

I just bought a Zen Microphoto and I was anxious to upload my songs on the forementioned player. However as I tried to install Creative MediaSource which I downloaded from this very site, I encountered a strange problem.
I clicked on the setup and my PC proceeded to extract the files, and when the setup screen loads up, there's a message saying "Looking for previously installed components" and there are two setup screens minimized to my taskbar (CMS web installer and Creative Media Source - Install Shield Wizard) Whenever I click either of them nothing will happen. I'm pretty confused about this.
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I had a similar issue when downloading the PlayForSure software for my Zen Touch. What I ended up doing was something I found in another thread. Download the installer, then use Winzip or Winrar and make an archi've of it. Unzip or Unrar it to another folder and then go into each folder and run the setup icons individually.
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Whenever I transfer albume to and from my Zen V Plus, Media source insists on adding the album title to the song name. This makes very long titles which can't be easily read in the Zen V. I have tried a number of transfers, and media source always appends album names to song titles. Is there a way around this, or is this Creative Media Source bug. It's a real pain to have to edit every title on every transfer. Thanks for any clues.My Zen V firmware and Media Source software are up to date.

Which mediasource did you download? I believe you have downloaded the mediasource installation mean for their MP3 player and that's why you cannot install. Their sound card mediasource don't have any standalone installation as far as I know. If you need, you will need to install the mediasource from your installation CD. If you don't have the installation CD, you can download the ISO CD image here.
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=8433

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