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    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
    AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
    Asus A8N-E
    Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
    Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
    Lian-Li PC60
    Windows XP Pro 64bit

  • #2
    get winamp 2.81, or peters direct sound output patch. set output to direct sound.
    no matrox, no matroxusers.

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    • #3
      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...
      Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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      • #4
        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.
        80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute

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        • #5
          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
          AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
          Asus A8N-E
          Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
          Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
          Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
          Lian-Li PC60
          Windows XP Pro 64bit

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          • #6
            Hey leo,

            Did you try my suggestions?
            80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute

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            • #7
              No, haven't had the time yet. Lots of things to do, girls to kiss and new ati drivers to install.
              AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
              Asus A8N-E
              Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
              Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
              Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
              Lian-Li PC60
              Windows XP Pro 64bit

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              • #8
                Hi! I can't find the MAD output plugin. Where do I find it? Have searched winamp.com....
                AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
                Asus A8N-E
                Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
                Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
                Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
                Lian-Li PC60
                Windows XP Pro 64bit

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                • #9
                  MAD plugin is <A HREF="http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/">here</A>.

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                  • #10
                    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.
                    AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
                    Asus A8N-E
                    Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
                    Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
                    Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
                    Lian-Li PC60
                    Windows XP Pro 64bit

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                    • #11
                      It still sounds like a hard drive thing.
                      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                      • #12
                        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.
                        AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
                        Asus A8N-E
                        Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
                        Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
                        Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
                        Lian-Li PC60
                        Windows XP Pro 64bit

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                        • #13
                          have you tried direct sound output? winamp 2.81?
                          no matrox, no matroxusers.

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                          • #14
                            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?
                            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                            • #15
                              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.
                              AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
                              Asus A8N-E
                              Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
                              Asus Extreme GeForce N7800GT
                              Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
                              Lian-Li PC60
                              Windows XP Pro 64bit

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