From: Sciamano Nerazzurro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 4:33 PM
Subject: MD: "Hesitating" sound
[...]
> What's happening is that every now and then the sound coming from WinAmp
> (but it shows in Liquid Audio too) "hesitates" resulting in a strange
sound,
> like if a bit was lost in the reading process, or like it was read twice.
>
> I've tried re-installing both WinAmp and Liquid Audio with no luck. I've
> also defragmented the hard drive, but the problem remains.
> This has been happening for a couple days, and there has been no
changement
> in my PC configuration, nor I had installed any new program.
>
> Any idea what it can be?
[...]
I'm going to take a rough shot at it being the graphics card. Unless you're
running something less than a P150 you should never have skipping in Winamp.
If you have a P150 or above then even the screensaver should cause much of a
problem - you only need a P166 to use some screensaver plug-ins for WinAmp
that synchronise display with the MP3, so just playing back without anything
else running should be a breeze!
The reason I say the graphics card is simple. In order to squeeze as
much performance as possible from these cards they send just slightly more
data to the card than it can take to try and push it. This results in the
command being left in the data lines until the card is ready for it, meaning
no other card can use those data lines until the graphics card is ready.
Ordinarily this isn't too much of a problem - the chances of you noticing
the printer pausing for a microsecond, or maybe the mouse locking for a very
brief instant, or even the hard disc taking just that millisecond longer to
read a file go pretty much unnoticed. With the sound card though it is
clearly audible when this happens. If you have a WinModem it will be
effected too - many people blame their ISP when they get disconnected, but
actually it's the graphics card breaking communication. The solution is to
nag the b****** off your graphics card manufacturer until you get some
drivers that *don't* lock up the bus - either that or switch graphics cards.
Magic
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