Creative MediaSource, tracks don't sound rig

Please can somebody help. For no reason that I know of, since yesterday, I cannot listen to music properly through the PC. I use Creative MediaSource but very recently the sound has gone very weird (can't really describe it... sounds like when you hear tracks attempting to stream from the internet but not doing it, and I can't hear drums/beats). This applies to all players now, whether through RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, or Creative MediaSource. Does anyone know what could have possibly happened? Thank you.

hi helen,
check your sub-woffer. select to direct, before going any futher. did your system crash within the past few days, if so it could be your music files have got corupt. if your sys had crashed. i had the same prob some time ago, all files were playing except for one. it was so low i could hardly hear it play, i had to delete it, luckily i had a copy and it went the same way. downloaded it again. and is playing fine ever since, another file i had trebled in size everytime it was played. the moral is check your file size's of your tracks. if you have copies hold them until you clear the folder or format the partition then copy the file's over it might help. this is the only thing that i can think off, is thst your file's are corupt.
hope this helps
john
p.s. as i said to you some weeks back is too check your sys. and hdd, no offence now. just trying to helpMessage Edited by john_g on 0-22-2005 06:58 AM

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