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Help With Audigy Skipping While Playing Mp3's

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Aenygma

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I have the Audigy MP3+ as can be seen in my sig. And it has been skipping ever since I installed it. As a matter of fact, the skipping is now getting worse it seems. (Skipping as in.. While playing an MP3 it will skip further along in the song, sorta like how old records used to do) It's very annoying.

Does anyone have any ideas or solutions for this problem??

I have heard of d/ling and installing the Audigy2 drivers, but I don't know if ppl did that b/c of this problem or not.

I have searched other forums to see if anyone else had this problem, and all I ever seem to see is the famous popping and hissing problems. (Of which I took care of)

I am not overclocking either.

So if anyone could help I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!!
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OS: XP Pro SP1
 
what version of windows are you running?

i had this problimn with my audigy X-gamer once. it worked fine then i did a reinstall cause windoes died. and i had this problim. i didnt install any new software or hardware and tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers many times. along with the updates. it did nothing. teh next time i reinstalled 2k it was gone. and its gone now that i have XP Pro hopefully someone will know cause id liek to know also

i think this only happened to me in winamp but i updated and reinstalled that also didnt do anything
 
Does it happen with all MP3 players? I don't have an Audigy, but I noticed that PlayCenter skipped like crazy while WinAMP played perfectly with my Live! 5.1

 
I am using WinAmp 2.8


🙁 Veryyyy annoying... and it seems to just be getting worse. I am now getting more than one skip sometimes within the same song.
 
opp missed that. you may not want winamp 3 but you should try it anyway just to see if it fixes your problim
 
I went to winamps help forum.. OMG are there a LOT of issues and pages to roam through.. lol.

One idea a number of ppl have tried is installing or re-installing DirextX8.1B Which I just did.

It still skips, but it does seem to be a lil better...


Must keep looking........:/
 
Try turning off "spread spectrum modulation" in your BIOS. That fixed 95% of my skipping problems. It also helps in overclocking.

If enabled, it modulates (fluctuates) the clock pulses in case you are having trouble with EMI interference. The modulation seems to confuse SBLive! and Audigy cards.
 
I had the exact same problem. I never did find a solution except to just use Winamp 3.0. The only program that's given me skipping problems is Winamp 2.8. If you track down the problem that'd be great. Until then, I've just gotten used to Winamp 3 and am looking forward to an update.

Oh, and I'm running Windows 2000 also, so maybe if you upgraded to Windows XP (which I refuse to do).
 
I'm having that problem too with my Audigy OEM in Winamp 2.8 on Windows XP Pro. I'm using the latest drivers from Creative's site. I'm glad it's not just me.

I upgraded to this Audigy from a Live! Value about 2 weeks ago. I hadn't had any problems at all with the Live!. The Audigy must still be buggy.
 
I had this problem too. The fix is easy through. Open up winamp preferences, select Output, and then highlight "wavOut output" instead of Directsound output, and then close preferences window. Your problems should be gone. At least, it did for me.
 
I'd recommend the Audigy2 drivers, which work well with the Audigy1.
Latest version is dated Nov 2002.
I prefer Windows Media Player9 (SRS Wow Effects enabled, visualizations disabled) for mp3's.
 
Originally posted by: vailr
I'd recommend the Audigy2 drivers, which work well with the Audigy1. Latest version is dated Nov 2002. I prefer Windows Media Player9 (SRS Wow Effects enabled, visualizations disabled) for mp3's.
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i second the audigy 2 drivers. i installed the audigy2's over my audigy 1 and it cleared up some issues i was having (skipping and such with music). the output sounds (fractionally) better to me but maybe thats because of how frustrated i was with the audigy 1 drivers.

the audigy 2 drivers are what the audigy 1's should have been.
 
I just spent the time from my last post up until now reinstalling WinXP and all my patches, drivers, and updates! Do NOT install those Audigy 2 drivers. It really screwed up my system.

I found the solution: I put my SB Live! Value back in. No more freaking Audigy problems!
 
I have a 5.1 Gamer with Live Drive IR running Audigy software... runs smooth as silk on Win2k. So many cards, drivers, software configs, system configs... I guess each system has to be trial and errored till you get the right mix
 
Mine was alone on IRQ 12.

At first after installing the Audigy 2 drivers, I got no sound and Winamp said there was no device, although it showed up as being installed just fine in Device Manager. I opened some .exe in the Audigy 2 drivers folder, and that's when the problems started. That .exe tried to update the drivers, and it caused a BSOD (the BSOD said it was caused by one of the Audigy drivers). I reset the system and it found 24 screwed up files when checking the hd! Then it took literally over 1 minute to open the System Properties and System Restore. System Properties showed the Audigy as being jacked up, yet it would hang when I'd try to remove it. System Restore hadn't noted the changes, so that didn't fix it. I tried installing the Audigy 1 drivers, but that also caused a BSOD (about the same Audigy driver as before). So, I reinstalled WinXP, and that allowed me to finally get the Audigy installed. However, I decided Audigy's were evil, so I swapped the Live! in my other system for the Audigy. Now all is good. I never had a problem with my Live!, and it sounds nearly as good -- perhaps better since I don't get the skips in songs.
 
Shotgun approach here 😀

Here are a couple items from Asus' knowledge base which may give you more ideas to try: item 1 and item 2

Why my Creative Labs Audigy Game Port can not work on A7V333?

You only need to change the jumper to disable sound device on the A7V333. However, the gameport on the creative card may have some conflict with our
on-board gameport. Creative has also considered this issue in their users manual. Please download their manual in PDF format from the following location,
it state the solution of this problem.
http://www.americas.creative.com/support/manuals/Files/Audigy.pdf
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I put Creative Lab Audigy2 sound card with A7N8X. I cannot load the gameport driver. Why?

This is due to Creative Audigy2 sound card must use a designated I/O decided by the sound card itself, unlike the I/O for other PCI devices are assigned by BIOS. Thus, this will cause I/O confilct. If users want to put Audigy2 on A7N8X and use gameport's function, please disable the gameport on Audigy2 and use the onboard gameport.
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Since most motherboards now have onboard sound and onboard MIDI/gameports, you may want to go into your BIOS and disable all three, or conversely disable the gameport on the Creative card and use the mobo's gameport (or neither one if you don't need one).

This thread might have relevance too: thread
 
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