amir's bug page

Here you'll find bugs and/or annoyances that I have found in software and hardware.

WinXP taskbar: *sometimes* the tooltips for the system tray icons appear below the taskbar, ie. they are not on top as they should be.
I have not tested this using the default Windows XP taskbar (the blue stylish one), and I don't suspect that the new one has the problem.
Windows (legacy) Multimedia API (WinMM): incorrect handling or decoding of audio that is bassy (instead of true bass sound you get thumping that sounds trebly--which I call sound artifacts). If you don't believe me, listen for yourself! file 1, file 2. Now tell me which one sounds better. If you listen closely to the bass thumps, you will hear that the first file sounds awful. Both files are from one MP3 (and no, the encoding process is not at fault here), and it was played back on two different players (two different APIs). The WinMM API generated the artifacts (tested with Windows Media Player 6.4.09.1128), yet when played with the DirectSound API using WinAMP, there were no sound artifacts to be heard! File 2 is just a direct copy from the original mp3. To record file 2, I used TotalRecorder to capture the output of Windows Media Player, which means that it has nothing to do with my hardware, and has everything to do with the implementation of the sound output, the API in this case.