Playing MP3 files a problem - not smooth

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Colonel Blip

Hello, All!

I have an A8V, Athlon64, 2 gb of memory and many gigabytes of hard drives.
My OS
is XP Pro, sp-2. This system is stable and robust. However, I have tried
several mp3
players from the Windows Media player to iTunes and I am having a problem.

When playing music frequently I am getting 'hesitation' in the music. This
is occurring when I open a program or even minimize one. At first I thought
it was due to the hard drive access but I ran a hard drive benchmark
program, which had essentially continuous access of the hard drive and the
music player did not hesitate. I have used taskmanager to see if I could see
a task taking over but it is not evident. Generally the system idle process
doesn't drop below 70%. There is an item lables "System" that the hesitation
cycle follows the task increasing and decreasing in CPU use (maybe 4-12%)
but other times there is no problem with the music but the System item
continues to fluctuate.

There is an item in the taskmanager called wowexec that seems to jump around
when I've got the list sorted by CPU use yet it uses no memory and the CPU
usage numbers do not change. I shut it down but that didn't seem to fix the
problem.

I'm at a loss on what could be causing this kind of behavior; any ideas?

Thanks,
Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
 
Just a hunch, but turn off AMD's version of hyper-threading and File
Indexing. Someone mentioned that as a solution to a similar problem on the
cakewalk.audio newsgroup.

Good luck and let us know how this resolves.

Ed Cregger
 
Ed said:
Just a hunch, but turn off AMD's version of hyper-threading and File
Indexing. Someone mentioned that as a solution to a similar problem on the
cakewalk.audio newsgroup.
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Then that someone is a complete and utter idiot. The is no such
thing as "AMD's version of hyper-threading".
 
Rob Stow said:
Then that someone is a complete and utter idiot. The is no such thing as
"AMD's version of hyper-threading"
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Are you sure about that? Hmmmm?

Ed Cregger
 
Hello, Ed!
You wrote on Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:11:30 -0400:

EC> Just a hunch, but turn off AMD's version of hyper-threading and File
EC> Indexing. Someone mentioned that as a solution to a similar problem on
EC> the cakewalk.audio newsgroup.

EC> Good luck and let us know how this resolves.

EC> Ed Cregger

EC> message ??>> Hello, All!

I don't run with file indexing active and I'm not aware of any HT settings
in AMD. Is anyone?

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
 
Hello, Colonel!
You wrote to All on Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:43:45 -0500:

More info on this problem (unfortunately, no solutions obvious to me):

I have a dual boot setup so I booted off the other OS partition. I ran an
mp3 file and opened and closed programs over and over again and while the
taskmanager response looked similar and the cpu usage jumped all over the
place, the sound was smooth.

Another test on the problem partition. I did a clean (nothing in startup)
boot and still had the problem.

Thus this doesn't appear to be a hardware problem but where oh where is the
problem.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

CB> Hello, All!

CB> I have an A8V, Athlon64, 2 gb of memory and many gigabytes of hard
CB> drives. My OS
CB> is XP Pro, sp-2. This system is stable and robust. However, I have
CB> tried several mp3
CB> players from the Windows Media player to iTunes and I am having a
CB> problem.

CB> When playing music frequently I am getting 'hesitation' in the music.
CB> This is occurring when I open a program or even minimize one. At first
CB> I thought it was due to the hard drive access but I ran a hard drive
CB> benchmark program, which had essentially continuous access of the hard
CB> drive and the music player did not hesitate. I have used taskmanager to
CB> see if I could see a task taking over but it is not evident. Generally
CB> the system idle process doesn't drop below 70%. There is an item lables
CB> "System" that the hesitation cycle follows the task increasing and
CB> decreasing in CPU use (maybe 4-12%) but other times there is no problem
CB> with the music but the System item continues to fluctuate.

CB> There is an item in the taskmanager called wowexec that seems to jump
CB> around when I've got the list sorted by CPU use yet it uses no memory
CB> and the CPU usage numbers do not change. I shut it down but that didn't
CB> seem to fix the problem.

CB> I'm at a loss on what could be causing this kind of behavior; any
CB> ideas?

CB> Thanks,
CB> Colonel Blip.
CB> E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

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Colonel Blip said:
Hello, Ed!
You wrote on Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:11:30 -0400:

EC> Just a hunch, but turn off AMD's version of hyper-threading and File
EC> Indexing. Someone mentioned that as a solution to a similar problem on
EC> the cakewalk.audio newsgroup.

EC> Good luck and let us know how this resolves.

EC> Ed Cregger

EC> message ??>> Hello, All!

I don't run with file indexing active and I'm not aware of any HT settings
in AMD. Is anyone?

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
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I'm not an expert, that's for sure. I was just parroting what I "thought" I
read on another newsgroup. I'm lucky I remembered that much.

Good luck solving the problem.

Ed Cregger
 
Sounds like a Audio Driver Problem to me.. either update your drivers or something,
maybe
something got corrupt. try reinstalling on another drive or partition... reinstall
stuff one at a time
to see what caused it..
 
Ed Cregger wrote:

Are you sure about that? Hmmmm?
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I am for sure. Maybe you're confused by "cool and quiet" which is sort of an
amd version of "speedstep", but not identical.
 
Egil said:
Ed Cregger wrote:





I am for sure. Maybe you're confused by "cool and quiet" which is sort of an
amd version of "speedstep", but not identical.
Click to expand...

That is a thought, though. If it's changing processor speed during playback.
 
I 'fixed' the problem by reinstalling my OS partition from a June backup.
Fortunately I hadn't added any programs of significance since then.
Everything runs fine now. I can't make the sound hesitate.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
 
Colonel Blip said:
I 'fixed' the problem by reinstalling my OS partition from a June backup.
Fortunately I hadn't added any programs of significance since then.
Everything runs fine now. I can't make the sound hesitate.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
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I am glad you remedied the problem.

Ed Cregger
 
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