SB Audigy and skipping

[KingofFah]

I was just reading some sound problems here, and decided to post a problem I have. Pretty strange. My new comp had XP on it first. I put all my mp3's on it and listened to them whenever I used the computer. Well, maybe a month later, I was playing them in winamp and I hear a skip. OK, one skip, I must have been doing something intense. Well, it began to happen, at most, once per song. First thing I tried to fix it was the buffering, did not work. I tried giving Winamp more priority, did not work. I did not like XP anyways, so I installed 2k pro. Seems it carried over. Put my mp3's back on, same deal with the skipping. I try playing them in another player, works fine, no skipping at all. How is this possible, that all of a sudden, winamp specifically starts skipping, and, on a clean boot, it still skips on 2k. I just find this very strange and am having a problem trying to find some logical reason behind this. Can anyone put my mind at ease?

 

[Orunitia]

Have you tried a different set of audigy drivers? Also try taking the card out and putting it on another computer to see if the same symptoms appear if you have one at your disposal.

 

[KingofFah]

Nothing as simple as that, I am sory to say.

 

[Ben]

Still looking for answers about this?

 

[foofoo]

somewhat opinionated but has good info and links for possible fixes

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[RustyNale]

I remember alot of people having problems with the audigy when it first came out, and just recently mine started doing the "crackling" thing soon after I had installed several pieces of software. It was annoying as anything, everytime a new window would open or I moved the mouse over links I'd get a crackle from the speakers. Seems something I'd just loaded had messed with the creative drivers. I uninstalled everything to do with my soundcard, and remembering the solution to the problems first experienced when the audigy card came out, I loaded JUST the drivers first, then tested it to make sure that the sound worked fine. Then I loaded the latest driver/patch for XP from Creative and ran that. Then I loaded the rest of the creative software that I wanted and so far to date, it's all working just fine.

 

[Ben]

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.

 

[KingofFah]

Wow, completely forgot about this. Never fixed it, spread spectrum was never turned on. I have been using another player skip free. It is just so strange that only winamp skips and it just happened out of the blue. In the original post I said I was on xp when it happened. When I formatted and changed to 2k it was still there. I formatted again recently to fix a whole bunch of problems that occured with directx (DX failed out of nowhere - patches, reinstalls, driver reinstalls - nothing fixed it). After booting into windows for the first time, I installed the audigy drivers then tested my mp3's. Same deal. Oh well. I really do not have a reason to use winamp. Started using another program that is just fine and is much lighter on memory.

EDIT: Just so you know, it is skipping. Listening to music and it will jump ahead in the song by about 5 seconds. Something with buffering on the sound card I assume.

 

[RussianSoldier]

maybe your mp3s are scratched...

 

[KingofFah]

They play fine in any other player. They play fine on other computers. I have downloaded more and those do not play well in winamp either. I guess this has to be sent to Robert Stack as an Unsolved Mystery