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playing CDs on a Toshiba laptop using windows media player. sometimes when a CD plays it is distorted (like dirt on a stylus (if that means anything to anybody!!)) this only happens on a few CDs - they are new CDs so not in bad nick - any media player experts out there???
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Another factor is distorted through what? The laptops own speakers? Many (but not all) new CDs are heavilly compressed to appear "louder" and if your volume is set high on the laptop those cds are going to sound heavily distorted coming through a laptop speaker.


Even if using big speakers you should try turning down the master volume on your laptop

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What else are you doing when they get distorted? I know when I ripped some of my cd's and carried on doing other stuff at the same time on a somewhat underpowered pc the resulting mp3 has bursts of distortion from other activities.
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