How come my MP3's skip when i play them?

[Quad]

i have a tbird 1ghz, asus a7v133.

whenever i play mp3's, they skip every minute or so. anyone have any idea as to why that happens? i'm not running anything intensive. just icq, mirc, mbm5, winamp.

thx

 

[Rob9874]

ICQ does it for me. Try playing them with ICQ off.

Rob

 

[winterlude]

Do they skip in the same spots during the songs? If you, your tracks recorded some pops while encoding(like a scratched record).

If that's the case, use error correction when ripping, and make sure your mike is on mute.

 

[Quad]

the songs don't skip in teh same spot. its nto just a few songs that do this...its all of them.

i'm pretty sure this wasn't happening a month ago. i've always had icq on while playing mp3s. this has only happened recently.

any other reason why this happens?

 

[nortexoid]

it could be that soundcard of yours...as much as i'd like not to insult it, i can't help myself...it's garbage.

if u can, try dropping in another soundcard or use onboard audio (removing your sb crap! of course)...if it doesn't skip, u know it's the sound card.

 

[lorddraco98]

How much RAM do you have? You might need more RAM to stop the skipping.

 

[Dufusyte]

Make sure you give winamp high priority.

Right-click on winamp's title bar, go into options, preferences or whatever, and look for a slider.

 

[bjc112]

Grinch (i like sayin it now)

his card ain't the best.. but i have the SBPCI 128 in my grams comp.. and her MP3's NEVE skip,, unless of course it is a bad track..

if infact it is the card.. it has to be a bad one..

i am sure a t-birdy 1000mhz can handle a little 3 meg MP3 right

 

[nortexoid]

tech nerd w/ glasses and yellow skin (let out bodiless for length purposes), i'm not referring to the card individually, but the via+sblive issues or the sblive+win2k driver issues...

the sblive can handle it...onboard audio can handle it..any pci audio card shoudl be able to handle it...but he may be having some sblive compatbility issues...

 

[Quad]

well, the thing is, this never happened before. its only been happening in the last few weeks. i've been using win2k with 4in1's 4.30. maybe i should go back to 4.29

how would u go about uninstalling 4.30?

 

[nortexoid]

run the via setup program again and select uninstall instead of install....

 

[Macro2]

Likely PCI bus.
First thing to do is make sure you have the latest drivers for your video card...

Mac

 

[bjc112]

tech nerd w/ glasses and yellow skin (let out bodiless for length purposes),


LOL..