Mp3 Playback Skipping

CreepieCreepie Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13734Members
edited April 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Help me solve this</div> OK. My mp3 playback is skipping. I get pauses, especially when the PC is doing CPU heavy stuff. I've tried winamp and wmp 9 so far. I've set sound hardware acceleration to max and to min, set buffers to be huge to absolutely no effect. Thoughts ?

Mods: can you move this to Off Topic where I meant to put it. Ta.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    <span style='color:orange'>*Phased.*</span>
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    I had this same problem, something about a failsafe device built in (forget what its called its like DPA or something like that) but mine was only when my CD-ROM was trying to read a disc, so forst open up your case and make sure the cables are in securley. Freakin dell made it so the cables were loose.
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  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    Easy: Winamp or whatever is getting starved.

    In Winamp 5, the best way to fix this is to options/preferences/general preferences, and way over on the right side is a box that says "Priority class." Up it a notch, or more if you need to. The higher you set it, greater amounts of processing power will be dedicated to it. You probably shouldn't set it to realtime, as it could interfere with much more important stuff.

    If you don't use Winamp, you might still be able to find an option for it, or you can change it manually (you can do some kind of shortcut, which you'll have to look up how to do, or you can open up the task manager and right click on the process to change it).

    Of course, there's always the chance you just have a really cruddy mp3 player. Windows Media Player for instance is quite the CPU hog. Go get Winamp, even if you were scared off by the less-than-impressive Winamp 3 release. Much improved now.
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  • CreepieCreepie Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13734Members
    I have tried both winamp (v5.03a) and wmp (v8). winamp's decode thread priority in the MPEG settings is set to highest by default. I've also set the input buffer to 15M which should be enough to store the largest mp3. So this should not be a disk problem. I'm wondering whether its a sound card problem.

    More thoughts ?
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  • CreepieCreepie Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13734Members
    I think I may have solved the problem. In the DirectSound output plugin, I've set the "Create primary buffer (for old soundsacrds - fixes sound quality problems)" option. I assume this forces winamp to create a buffer in memory regardless of settings in other plugins for playback ? I've noticed the amount of memory that winamp uses has increased to 17M.

    Fingers crossed, this solves the problem.
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