> Mine does this at times too-& I don't have high speed network. This started happening the day I got cable internet set up using my then-new Ethernet card. And it only seems to be a problem with network transfers in progress. I say "high speed" because I only get this with inbound streams, and my cable connection is 600/128 (although I think I've noticed it with occasional outbound transfers). Maybe it's related to how the OS processes incoming data, or maybe just related to transfer speed.
What you will find is that due the screwed up nature of Mac OS, some applications will actually cut out music on odd occasions, like GraphicConverter (my copy of which also has some evil bugs). You'll also notice music pauses during heavy paging, too. > I think it's generally due to the processor not being able to keep up with the > demands on it. Well. Music is generally played on an interrupt-level task, so it is very hard to disturb it (paging aside). All the tricks that freeze the Mac (menu down, scrolling, Bomb dialog up, application busy or frozen, etc) do not affect playback because music playback runs at interrupt level, same as the mouse cursor. So, scrolling the screen should never in the least affect music, and normally it doesn't. However, I don't know what networking is like, so maybe scrolling affects networking which affects the interrupt system which affects music playback - I don't know. > Max out the Ram if you havent... This won't have a slightest bit of effect on anything CPU-related, though. That said, I have 144 Mb in here. > and quit any apps that you don't need to keep running to free up ram and this > con help. I don't think it's anything to do with RAM at all. But no, I am not going to be doing this, as I run at least 20 apps at all times (the Mac is left running all the time). The odd glitch in music is not going to screw up how I use the machine :) > A original 68040 powermac processor is more likely to do this more often than > one upgraded to a G3... The 68040 is a 16-bit "68k" processor. You mean the 604e I assume, in my case? (4000/200). And I wonder if it's not even a CPU issue, but more of a OS issue - a NIC driver that doesn't play well with how Mac OS works. Hard to tell really what it's up to. > I prefer iTunes to any other software I've used for playing music. Heh, I can't stand iTunes :) I use SoundApp - it's lighter on the CPU (10% vs iTunes 30%), lets me use the Finder to arrange my music (I love trance, and trance cannot be arranged using iTunes feeble Library system), and supports tracked music - I still don't see a way to get iTunes to play MOD/S3M/IT. Admittedly, SoundApp is a long way behind Winamp, but it's pretty good for a program with no plugin support, relying entirely on built-in format support. Out of choice, I'd be running Winamp. I did run Winamp, but alas there are some nasty bugs in it - it had a tendency to hit null pointers, and force quitting it would destabilise Open Transport or just demolish the OS (quit attempts in MacsBug would get stuck around the stupid IterateHashTable mulberry bush ad nauseum). So SoundApp it is :) It's a bit of a shame that I've not yet seen a successor app to SoundApp for X, in terms of music playback (MP2/MP3/MID/MOD/S3M/IT all inside one player) -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
