Music Pausing

Hi, Bondi,

Assumption - you are running the system with the on-board video chip and the on-board music.

If true - get a better sound card - Creative Labs Audigy

get a graphics card with as much RAM as you can afford: NVidea

increase you system RAM to 2 Gigabytes.

Install same and enjoy.

Either that or send me the specs on your system. Is this a desktop or a laptop?

Type of display? High-speed Internet access (DSL or Cable) ?

Good Luck

Orpheuse

Yes, onboard video chip and music.

i still have a creative sound blaster from my windows 3.1, would that be worth a try?

My computer won't accept more RAM, I tried, with the right RAM, but it wouldnt work, I actually have 1GB and a 256MB ram chips installed, but the GB only shows up as 512MB.

That was another post:

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/29702

There's a bit of info on my system here:

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/29392

It is a desktop

SIS 650+962 video card

It is on wireless internet, on broadband which is 3.0 mbps, with excellent signal.

The games are mainly ones such as bloons and bloons TD, which once they load, don't need to load anything again.

I use firefox v3, but the problem also occurs in google chrome

Thanks

Can you put in 2 gig of RAM - exactly the same make and model of RAM - two 1Gig DIMM's, and see what happens.

I truly believe that the RAN is where the trouble is.

/Ari (Orpheuse)

I would think that you need a faster PC........all the other fixes are just Band-Aids that may or may not help!!

Or why not play music on a different system or unit!!! CD players are good!!

Something on your computer is being greedy.

If I remember right, there's a lighter weight "legacy" media player in the Windows directory (mplay32 in \windows\system32 on my XP box I think) without the fanciness of the recent Windows Media Player version but I don't think it handles playlists. There are older versions of winamp on oldversion.com that handle playlists (try 2.95, it worked well for me) and work well on older machines.

One other possibility is to see whether you can downsample the music you play and change it to mono so playback is less computationally intensive. Those changes made the difference in allowing an old Pentium 90 MHz laptop I had earlier capable of playing music.

That said, I'm not sure how much of your processor's power is taken up by wireless networking tasks during games and whether that can be cut.

hmm... i ll probably say a good cause of that would be network problems. if your internet connection is slow or your bandwidth is not large enough, then check your ram free space, but if all of this for you works fine, then you probably need to check the version of your windows media you have on your computer and if it's the recent. Then try reinstalling the driver. However, the problem could also occur because you are trying to play 2 music sources on the same windows media at the same time.(1. Through the internet and 2. Through your computer system itself). I sometimes see that same problem when I try to do that. especially when my windows media is playing songs on my computer and then an internet with mp3 music begins to play too...

quick question, before you spend a lot of money buying things that will not work... does the music stutter at the very end of the song, just before queuing up another song?

IF so, the this is a simple configuration issue within media player. The stutter may occur as media player begins to queue up the next song for seamless playback.

If the music stutters ALL the time, then some of the above suggestions may be valid... especially if you are streaming audio over the web versus playing MP3 files.

TRY THIS:

Control Panel
Click Sound
Select Playback tab
Select Speakers/Headphones entry
Click Properties
Select Enhancements Tab
Disable all enhancements

If you don't see a "Speakers/Headphones" entry under the "Playback" tab, then right click in the box and select "Show Disabled Devices".

If you do have the "Speakers/Headphones" entry under the "Playback" tab, then you can just double click it to go into its properties.