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Winamp Asio Input
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Winamp Asio Plugin Download
er, there's a lot of misunderstandings on this thread!
ASIO will not 'improve sound quality' per se -
the sound quality is a property of
(i) the sound quality of the original audio
(ii) the quality of the MP3 encoding when it was turned into an MP3
(iii) the quality of Winamp's MP3 decoding when it plays it back
(iv) the quality of the D/A convertors on your soundcard
(v) the quality of your speakers/headphones/ears/...
ASIO is a low level driver, its job is just to stream the audio out of Windows to your soundcard and out into the analogue world, without glitches and clicks and timing errors because Windows decided to pick its nose at that moment.
(Windows wasn't really designed to work with audio... its own MME and WDM drivers aren't designed for hi-stress use)
So - if you have a soundcard which supports ASIO drivers, and you install an ASIO driver for Winamp,
you shouldn't expect 'better' sound quality (in terms of the audio itself), you should just expect Windows to no longer glitch and click and pop the audio about...
...you should be able to run more applications and tasks at once, and thanks to the ASIO driver, your Winamp stream will be given priority and you'll never hear a glitch.
If you're getting glitches with the ASIO Winamp driver, you need to go in and edit its settings: give it a bigger buffer and a higher (Real Time?) priority.
I've done that on my dreadful Pentium III 800MHz box and no glitch in site (M-Audio Firewire 1814 soundcard)
ASIO will not 'improve sound quality' per se -
the sound quality is a property of
(i) the sound quality of the original audio
(ii) the quality of the MP3 encoding when it was turned into an MP3
(iii) the quality of Winamp's MP3 decoding when it plays it back
(iv) the quality of the D/A convertors on your soundcard
(v) the quality of your speakers/headphones/ears/...
ASIO is a low level driver, its job is just to stream the audio out of Windows to your soundcard and out into the analogue world, without glitches and clicks and timing errors because Windows decided to pick its nose at that moment.
(Windows wasn't really designed to work with audio... its own MME and WDM drivers aren't designed for hi-stress use)
So - if you have a soundcard which supports ASIO drivers, and you install an ASIO driver for Winamp,
you shouldn't expect 'better' sound quality (in terms of the audio itself), you should just expect Windows to no longer glitch and click and pop the audio about...
...you should be able to run more applications and tasks at once, and thanks to the ASIO driver, your Winamp stream will be given priority and you'll never hear a glitch.
If you're getting glitches with the ASIO Winamp driver, you need to go in and edit its settings: give it a bigger buffer and a higher (Real Time?) priority.
I've done that on my dreadful Pentium III 800MHz box and no glitch in site (M-Audio Firewire 1814 soundcard)