Music playback issue

Published on October 10, 2012 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

So I use iTunes when I am using Windows. Right now I'm on a clean install of XP SP3 along with the latest version of iTunes. Every time I have music playing in the background the music will skip. This happens when I start up Firefox on reload a page on run any other program. I have 4 GB of DDR2 on the machine along with a newer 500 GB hard drive. At first I thought the drive wasn't keeping up with my usage. Maybe it's my CPU because it's a 2.9 GHz single core CPU. I have no idea what's going on. Any suggestions on a fix? Just want to be able to cruise the internet with my music on without the music skipping.

Comments (Page 2)

Jafo

on Oct 11, 2012

kona0197

reply 15

Never had any issues on this very same machine a year ago.

Then something added...or updated within the past year is the cause.

And guess who is the best-placed to determine what was added and/or updated?

kona0197

on Oct 11, 2012

Nothing was added. In fact things were taken away. This is a fresh install of XP, XP updates, Firefox 16, and iTunes 10.5. Should be working fine.

Maybe something went wrong with the fresh install. After all the install was done from the hidden partition, a factory image install.

Jafo

on Oct 11, 2012

kona0197

reply 17

In fact things were taken away

OK, so one of those shouldn't have been.

This isn't rocket science. It's cause and effect.

When things work OK....that's NOT the time to trash everything and start again. When it's not broke it's actually not broke.

moshi

on Oct 11, 2012

kona0197

reply 17

Nothing was added. In fact things were taken away. This is a fresh install of XP, XP updates, Firefox 16, and iTunes 10.5. Should be working fine.

Maybe something went wrong with the fresh install. After all the install was done from the hidden partition, a factory image install.

lol. did those applications even exist then? iTunes 10.5 was released last year, but Firefox 16?

just use Linux if that works ok and you just want to listen to music and surf the web. but i have that strange feeling that that doesn't work either as you probably got the latest Ubuntu installed and are wondering why it is so slow.

kona0197

on Oct 11, 2012

No I don't have any version of Linux installed. Decided to go back to Windows XP as my wireless printer does not work with any flavor of Linux.

I think Island Dog is right. I am trying Winamp right now although I don't know how to use it properly and nothing is skipping.Thanks Jafo.

So my question now is this: What is the best iTunes clone that is light on resources?

moshi

on Oct 11, 2012

kona0197

reply 7

Please note this only happens while using Windows. While using Linux the music plays just fine.

????

werewolf

on Oct 11, 2012

i had a problem similar to yours and it turned out to be a codec problem of all things. You could try installing a small, generic, codec package.

kona0197

on Oct 11, 2012

@Moshi: I had Fedora Linux and Windows XP installed last month. While using Linux and any player included with Linux there was no skipping.

@Werewolf: What codec would you suggest?

I'm testing out Foobar2K right now, so far no skips. Wonder when Itunes got so bloated.

Wizard1956

on Oct 11, 2012

kona0197

reply 23

Wonder when Itunes got so bloated.

As soon as they added the "i"

Snowman

on Oct 11, 2012

Wizard1956

reply 24

Quoting kona0197, reply 23Wonder when Itunes got so bloated.

As soon as they added the "i"

kona0197

on Oct 11, 2012

Guys I think I will just stick with Foobar. Good little player.

Jafo

on Oct 11, 2012

moshi

reply 21

Quoting kona0197,
reply 7
Please note this only happens while using Windows. While using Linux the music plays just fine.

????

Moshi.....this is Kona.....you know Kona......the person whose grasp on reality is at best seasonal....

kona0197

on Oct 11, 2012

Quite right Jafo. I do try hard.

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