Hello all, I've been having an odd problem with the zune software inside my windows xp guest on my ubuntu 8.04 host. After listening to sound for a while (i listen to music in my sleep) the sound quality plummets and becomes very full of static and is overall terrible. All of windows suffers from this problem, which goes away when I close zune. I can then restart zune and all is well, but there seems to be a time limit when I listen to music when my sound quality goes out.
What I've tried:
- Removing and reinstalling Zune.
- Completely removing virtualbox from Synaptic and reinstalling.
- Using different sound drivers in virtualbox (I'm using ALSA ICH 97, tried Sound Blaster version to no avail.)
I'm sure it isn't my hardware because I used zune and virtualbox in the same way recently before reformatting my system. I'm not sure where else to hit it can anyone suggest anything?
sound is full of static until zune restart
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Try it with the Zune software on a Windows Host. If it does the same, it's a bug in the Zune software. It wouldn't be the first time an application messes up the audio of the OS (either Guest or Host).
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Yea that's what I've been doing. While I'm running zune inside of WinXP the sound quality goes out for the entire virtual OS until I close zune, and completely goes away the moment I close it. This doesn't affect my Ubuntu host at all. Is there a way to reload the sound drivers in virtualbox? I've tried switching around in the settings menu but is there a way to recompile the sound driver or something?
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Do you get the same behaviour on a native Windows install?
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I would doubt it, I've used Zune in vbox before and haven't had this problem. I recently reformatted my whole disk and after reinstalling vbox this problem started.
Another reformat would probably fix the problem, it sounds like something just isn't configured right and no one else seems to be having this problem, but I'm trying to isolate WHAT exactly is wrong instead of nuking the whole thing.
Another reformat would probably fix the problem, it sounds like something just isn't configured right and no one else seems to be having this problem, but I'm trying to isolate WHAT exactly is wrong instead of nuking the whole thing.