whenever i try and play music through my system the music goes really slow in places as if it is struggling to cope this happens weather it is played through cd or off the HDD any1 got any ideas on my problem

could it be that all drives are IDE not sata

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the IDE issue is a no. You can run more than 24 stereo tracks iff an ide with no probs at the same time - subject to soundcard and software .

When you say Slow - do you mean it stutters or it plays slow....cos if it's the latter check your not trying to play 48khz files at 44.1Khz res. The setting will be in your soundcard control panel.

Sounds to me like a soundcard issue - have you uploaded the latest drivers???


Howeever, if you mean it's stuttering, not keeping up, then i'm not sure.....do you have enough ram to play music at the same time as whatever it is your doing? are you demanding much from the pc when this is happenning?

the song kinda gos really slow for a couple of seconds then back to normal was using onboard graphics so got a card to try sort the problem out but its still causing a problem

dont think the system not being able to handle it is a problem my system is as follows

Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600
320MB XFX 8800GTS XT
2 Gb Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC5400 (667)
Asus P5N-E SLI 650i

will have a look at the khz im playing the files at might be the issue

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mmm thats very odd. if its only a few seconds it aint the file format / recorded Khz range.

download the latest dirvers for your soundcard.

check in your processes what is running when this happens - i'd imagine you'll be getting spikes of activity.....

can you adjust your soundcards latency value? they often come defaulted to 7-10 ms but youll get better performance out of a cheap soundcard with something in the 20-30ms range - have a play about. As long as your not using it for music creation you can get away with very high latency (90ms) as its just a buffer.

short of than i'm a little lost. the really slow thing has me confused:

the sound file has a fixed playback speed and range, so it can't play back slowly without interferance from software (like pitchshifting [slow down with lowered pitch] or timestretching [a slow down without noticable change in pitch]) both of these effects are VERY unlikely to occur without interferance from software.

now if it's just that the file is taking longer than it should to play through, then it's stuttering, rather than either of the above. that can definitely happen without any interferance from software and is likely to be due to very different issues.

What do you play them with? does this happen with all media players??? cos if it's either of the first two faults, the media player is the first thing i'd replace. try vlc or 'horror' itunes


clarify?

i play them through windows media player, i havent tried any other players but will give it a go when i get home.

from what you have said i think it is stuttering

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do you use kaspesky av by any chance?

has happened in the past for me, due to kaspersky scanning external HDD (all my mp3's are on that)

i know it may sound silly

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no dont use that. just tried it on nero show time and it does the same thing am gonna download itunes and try it on that

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is ti definitely not the file itself?
such an odd problem.....maybe your hard disk buffer is set really small? or VM swap file? lost a bit....report activity monitor...

sorry lost me abit then what do i have to do

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ok i have tried itunes as well and no luck

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