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
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 l
I just noticed that when playing a CD with Windows Media player, the
volume is adjusted by the "Wave Volume", whereas when using the
CD player program, the volume is adjusted by "CD Volume". I conclude
that Windows media player is actually digitally extracting ("ripping") the
file and passing it
