Yes, they do. You can turn it off in winamp, if you like. I don't know about
WMP. They do this in order to sample the audio stream so they can generate
visualization goodies off of it (as opposed to just going straight through the
cable, the programs would never see the data, and hence would not be able to
represent it).
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:59:56AM +0000, Chad Gombosi wrote:
> >I conclude
> >that Windows media player is actually digitally extracting ("ripping") the
> >file and passing it to the sound card as data, whereas CD player just
> >sends the audio from the drive via the audio cable to the analog mixer
> >on the sound card. Interesting...
>
> Yeah, I said the same thing last week (only regarding Winamp) and no one
> agreed with me.
>
> Chad Gombosi
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