Thread: HD Radio Cables READY!

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

yes it is sorry lol

It's wierd, done it on 2 separate computers.....

Go through following mitch's instructions, all goes well, then I go into the hd and xm folders and there is some more .bat files, so I run them. XM does fine, but the register.bat on HD gives that error on both computers.

I just manually checked the registry and it is registered. Guessing it's done in another step and then can't redo it.

danielkh, dont reinstall .net 2.0!!!!

in the hdradio directory
is a runme1st.cmd

runme1st.cmd

will register the hdradio object

i have NO IDEA what "register.bat" is/does, its not mine

mitch

pontiac... NO of course not, your 2ch/4ch thing is inside ur pc

you know on my OS / audio system... 2 channel LINE in, plays on all 4 speakers
via the PLAYBACK MIXER (VISTA,realtek 880)

see technically MUSIC is 2channel, (not talking about 5.1)
and there is NO such thing as rear speakers
but some people got it in their head they need music coming from the rear in a car
(you know it generally screws up the imaging of the music) but most people
arnt aware, or really understand...

what audio system are you using?

mitch

Originally Posted by mitchjs

danielkh, dont reinstall .net 2.0!!!!

in the hdradio directory
is a runme1st.cmd

runme1st.cmd

will register the hdradio object

i have NO IDEA what "register.bat" is/does, its not mine

mitch

I didn't and everything worked great on the first roadtrip. Heck, stuff that has never worked before now works (gps weather, zipcode updating). I might just become a full time roadrunner convert yet!

Since your stuff is working great, I'm going to head over to the digital fx thread for other issues. Thanks a lot, sorry for the confusion, and as I said to begin with, great product!

Originally Posted by mitchjs

pontiac... NO of course not, your 2ch/4ch thing is inside ur pc

you know on my OS / audio system... 2 channel LINE in, plays on all 4 speakers
via the PLAYBACK MIXER (VISTA,realtek 880)

see technically MUSIC is 2channel, (not talking about 5.1)
and there is NO such thing as rear speakers
but some people got it in their head they need music coming from the rear in a car
(you know it generally screws up the imaging of the music) but most people
arnt aware, or really understand...

what audio system are you using?

mitch

I'm just saying the HD radio sounds like crap coming out of just the front speakers. When it's locked on an HD station, the tweeters get real loud. It would sound much better with sound also coming from the back. MP3's sound much much much better because of this.

I'm running a SB Audigy SE tied into my factory amp.

i dont know too much about the SB Audigy SE, but my guess it only supports a "virtual" surround and wont copy the audio from front to back speakers, but u can always use "AudioRepeater"
part of virtural audio cable

sounds like you dont got balance in your system, if HD Radio sounds like crap

mitch

Originally Posted by mitchjs

i dont know too much about the SB Audigy SE, but my guess it only supports a "virtual" surround and wont copy the audio from front to back speakers, but u can always use "AudioRepeater"
part of virtural audio cable

sounds like you dont got balance in your system, if HD Radio sounds like crap

mitch

Nope. AudioRepeater does the same thing Winamp does.....makes an echo.

Does anyone know a reasonably priced soundcard that will play the line-in on all speakers?? It's ashame when ya spend all this money on a CarPC and a $20 radio sounds better than an HD radio.

I had no problem with SB Live external 24 and XM line in. They're pretty cheap. Not sure how it would do on HD, but should be the same.

Since then I decided to go with built in and got the kino-9452 motherboard (realtek ALC883 7.1). No issues on any line-ins and full control down to the individual speakers.