Moments of Panic
Jun. 29th, 2002 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerSo, I'm sitting listening to a variety of loud thumpy things (everyone is out except me) while modifying some reports that were supposed to be done weeks ago (I've done the urgent ones and it's very, very dull changing lots of reports in exactly the same way), when I realise that I'm only getting sound from the right hand speakers (quad sound is fantastic for listening to music with and vital for counterstrike).
I sigh, assuming that this will be one of the many things that has caused mono sound before, and go through the old routine. Three minutes later I'm startlingly confused - the plug is in all the way, winamp hasn't had it's slider slid all the way right, The Windows Media Subsystem has all of it's sliders solidly in the middle. Even the Sounblaster's EAX controls show all the speakers in the right place. Something different is wrong.
A thought creeps up on me slowly, and I switch back to Winamp and change track. The Duel of the Fates Dance Mix fades out from my right ear and Locutus of Borg tells me that "Resistance is Futile" in fully fledged surround sound as Funker Vogt's "Futile" kicks in (did I mention I was listening to geeky music right now? Well this part of the list is. Later on we hit the KLF and Wayne G).
Yup, whoever ripped the Star Wars Dance Thang did so in mono. And forgot to tell the software that, so it plays in Stereo, only out of one side. Fantastic. Another five minutes wasted. Now back to work (well, except for the 3 minutes necessary to type this).
I sigh, assuming that this will be one of the many things that has caused mono sound before, and go through the old routine. Three minutes later I'm startlingly confused - the plug is in all the way, winamp hasn't had it's slider slid all the way right, The Windows Media Subsystem has all of it's sliders solidly in the middle. Even the Sounblaster's EAX controls show all the speakers in the right place. Something different is wrong.
A thought creeps up on me slowly, and I switch back to Winamp and change track. The Duel of the Fates Dance Mix fades out from my right ear and Locutus of Borg tells me that "Resistance is Futile" in fully fledged surround sound as Funker Vogt's "Futile" kicks in (did I mention I was listening to geeky music right now? Well this part of the list is. Later on we hit the KLF and Wayne G).
Yup, whoever ripped the Star Wars Dance Thang did so in mono. And forgot to tell the software that, so it plays in Stereo, only out of one side. Fantastic. Another five minutes wasted. Now back to work (well, except for the 3 minutes necessary to type this).
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Star Wars
Date: 2002-07-01 05:21 am (UTC)You, and almost everyone else got it from mme in my period of unlimited bandwidth, and I'm pretty sure that some of the samples alternated.
I could be wrong.
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Date: 2002-07-02 02:29 pm (UTC)