Help with Audio Device Playback

Hoping someone out there can help. Before I updated to iTunes 7, I played back all of my iTunes music through some studio monitors connected to a Digidesign Mbox audio interface. Since upgrading, I cannot get clean audio using this device. When I select "Digidesign Mbox: Chan 1-2" as the default sound playback device in my QuckTime preferences, playing a song in iTunes gives me a garbled sound--almost sounds like a CD that's skipping. Can anybody help with a solution? I hate having to listen to my tunes through two tiny cheap computer speakers!
Thanks in advance,
Mike

I have the same problem. I get the garbled "Skipping" sound when I use the new version of iTunes. The only way I have to get around it is an old version of iTunes 6 I have saved - it has the same version of Quick Time Attached that was good (then) and should work with the WaveDriver. I have an MBOX 2 and it sounds GREAT.
It really is bad that Apple has this "New, Great" iTunes but it won't work with the existing hardware. I can go from my Sound Card out to my Monitors, but the sound quality is bad. And it is so much easier to just use the MBOX volume adjuster - it is very handy.
Apple, please fix this problem. I want to download DRM free music but iTunes 7.2 does not work with MBOX 2.
AlienWare Area 51 Windows XP 4gb RAM, nVidia 6200TC, SoundBlaster Audigy, MBOX 2

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8. Port Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 : Port Mixer
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Uncle_Sam wrote: I wrote a simple Java application to record audio ..
There is no simple way to record sound in Java, AFAIU.
Uncle_Sam wrote: ...on some mixer and then play it back. ...
Now my problem is that when the headphones are not connected, any audio being played out through the sound card can be recorded through mixers 4 and 6 above. This includes sounds created by the operating system, any audio files being played out etc. However, when I connect my headphones, the audio at the microphones can be recorded through mixers 4 and 5 above but any audio produced by the computer (again, sounds produced by the OS, audio files being played out etc.) cannot be recorded at any mixer. I tried mixer 6 above without success.
Is it not possible to record computer audio when a microphone is connected? If it is, how?
Significant question. Are you interested in getting this code to work for the machine you sit in front of, or is this for 'the general end user'?
I have no general solution for the latter, but for a single machine, installing an 'audio loop-back' (either software or hardware) might be the answer. That is the most intelligent thing I can offer that might help get around this problem.
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Hi,
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I need a professional help please "audio device problem"

Hi guys ..
I am facing a problem with my audio device ... on my HP DV5-1126em laptop
when I play any sound , the first part of it can't be heard .. for example , when the system start "any sound clip" .. the sound will start from the middle of the voice clip i.e. " the first part of sound is missing" .. but if i repeat the sound it will play without any problem , but after some seconds .. the problem appears again
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Download audio driver:
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Disconnect from Internet.
Uninstall from Your system audio drivers.
Resources:
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Uninstall or change a program in Windows 7
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Restart Your system and this time start it in normally.
Install downloaded audio driver.
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Hard problem with audio device installing for Lenovo G430 t6600

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I'm pretty new to Director and I want to refrain
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>I appreciate your help, but most of these websites assume
you're
>making some
> flash vid or video game animation. I'm creating
noninteractive
> animation that
> I'll later edit into scenes. The way I'm coming to
understand it,
> the source
> of the problem is the way the program treats sound as
measured in
> time where as
> the graphics/animation are measured in frames. Still,
I'm convinced
> its a
> crock of sh#% and that the lack of this simple feature
is there to
> force you to
> buy marker software. The program should either display
the
> spectrogram of the
> sound or at least play the sound from the point in time
that the
> cursor is at!!
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http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/Animation/
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