Skipping during mp3 playback...

[woel]

Hi!

Please solve this problem for me:
I have an athlon xp 1700 and 512MB Ram and when I play a mp3 in winamp the songs skips when I do something in windows explorer. What's wrong? Didn't use to be like this...

The same happens on my familys p4 2.2GHz...

/Leo

[thop]

get winamp 2.81, or peters direct sound output patch. set output to direct sound.

[K6-III]

Post complete specs, including soundcard, and software in use....

Personally, I like Coolplayer 2.05 with WAVOUT....

Very lean MP3 player with best soundquality...

Otherwise, Winamp 2.81 with MAD plugin and WAVOUT....

If you're running the audigy1/2 or any ASIO compliant card, get the 1.15 ASIO plugin for Winamp...

[rugger]

Tips:

Make sure your hard drives and CD-ROM are using DMA transfer modes. PIO transfer modes suck in this respect.

Make sure, if you are using a VIA board, that you don't have too much other bandwidth hoging equipment hanging off the PCI bus. (like IDE and SCSI controllers)

Open up "task manager" if you are under w2k or XP and make sure that there arn't other programs using all the CPU/memory running.

[woel]

Hi!

My system:
AMD Athlon XP1700+
Abit KR7A-133
Crucial 512MB PC2100
ATI Radeon 8500 (Retail)
3com 3c905c
Creative Labs SBLive! player 1024
IBM 120GXP 80GB

+Pioneer 10x DVD and Plextor 16x CD-R

Using Winamp 2.80 or 3.0 no other programs running except for (for example) Windows Explorer. When I right click a file the music skips after a few seconds.

/Leo

[rugger]

Hey leo,

Did you try my suggestions?

[woel]

No, haven't had the time yet. Lots of things to do, girls to kiss and new ati drivers to install.

[woel]

Hi! I can't find the MAD output plugin. Where do I find it? Have searched winamp.com....

[Liquid Snake]

MAD plugin is <A HREF="http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/">here</A>.

[woel]

Well it seems as the sound quality is much better now anyway. (after installing mad) But I get skipping in two cases:
1. Still when I right click a file in windows explorer.
2. When Sun Java is loading.
Otherwise no problem, can even play divx movies at the same time as I listen to music.

[Wombat]

It still sounds like a hard drive thing.

[woel]

Well, now I've run out of ideas. Reinstalled the latest via 4in1 and I allready have the latest soundblaster. DMA is enabled for all drives.

[thop]

have you tried direct sound output? winamp 2.81?

[Wombat]

What does processor and memory usage look like while it skips?

Did you set Winamp's thread priority too low? Did you tell Windows to optimize for apps, or as a server?

[woel]

Hi! Tried direct sound too.

I haven't changed winamp's priority (normal). windows is set on optimized for applications...

Reinstalling my system seems to be the next step.

Oh! It is so much fun.