My comp was hit by some virsuses so i spent the whole weekend backing up over 2000 mp3's to zip disks, reformatting my hd, reloading the OS, finding drivers for my modem and old 3dfx voodoo video card, getting my msn account back on ect ect....

Now i finally got windows media player off my system. Thank god. I decided to go back to what i used to use(winamp) I downloaded the latest version which is 3.somthing but the sound quality is crap. The Bitrate of the sound file playing makes no difference. Everything played sounds like crap. ie......... Static in the background.

Any ideas on what i could do to beef up the sound quality?