Really annoying skipping in Build 75

[Roj]

Upon further testing, I think the player is FAR too sensitive to things going on in the Windows environment. It skips (or rather plays the last bit of music again) because of it. For example, I'll be working in a directory creating folders and it will exhibit the above behavior when I do a folder create. Is there any way to anesthetize the player to this sort of thing? It's TREMENDOUSLY annoying and it's definitely NOT my machine speed... I haven't messed with the default buffer or priority settings (nor should I have to).

[Paul]

If your getting hiccups creating a folder, it's not QCD. I can compile, browse IE, format a CD, install an app, and launch Photoshop all at the same time without skipping QCD. And that's on a PIII 500.

Something else is spiking the CPU, or saturating the bus, or thrashing the harddrive (which ever one of those is causing QCD to starve).

[Roj]

If your getting hiccups creating a folder, it's not QCD. I can compile, browse IE, format a CD, install an app, and launch Photoshop all at the same time without skipping QCD. And that's on a PIII 500.

Something else is spiking the CPU, or saturating the bus, or thrashing the harddrive (which ever one of those is causing QCD to starve).The symptoms are it immediately replays a second of the song it's currently playing. Also, and this is the kicker, 4.11 vanilla doesn't do it. Oh, one more thing - it happens with lossless, MAD or OGG. I'm of course using the crossfade plugin with all the fding disabled.

Also, loading applications doesn't cause hiccups (I just loaded 10 copies of Explorer - I launch each copy in a separate process, Nero, UltraISO, Word, DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter, Shorten all at once and never got a skip - what a mess to close out now :) ). File activities in Explorer are the only thing that cause hiccups.

[Paul]

File activities in Explorer are the only thing that cause hiccups.
Are you using the Watch Folders plugin?

[matty28carter]

I get similar skipping. I'm not using watch folders at all. If i'm using QCD and press "back" in firefox it'll skip. I'll see what else i do makes it skip. I'm also using similar settings to roj, xfader (no fading) etc.

[Roj]

Are you using the Watch Folders plugin?My first reaction after reading your answer was "um, what's that?" :) I guess that means "no". It's installed and it is indeed there amongst the plugins but I haven't touched it though.

BTW, what happened to the smiley icon on the forum? i do the traditional colon and close bracket and get a placeholder for a missing icon when I finalize my post.

[Roj]

I get similar skipping. I'm not using watch folders at all. If i'm using QCD and press "back" in firefox it'll skip. I'll see what else i do makes it skip. I'm also using similar settings to roj, xfader (no fading) etc.
Glad to see it's not just me. :)

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Is your harddrive running in PIO mode and not UDMA? That could make some considerable difference.

[matty28carter]

I don't think so, how do i find out. it doesn't happen when doing anything HDD intensive or processor intensive, just pressing the back button in firefox has done it, checking my mcafee virus-scan settings (nothing that made it do it b4) and it didn't do this before B75

[Roj]

Is your harddrive running in PIO mode and not UDMA? That could make some considerable difference.Yer kidding, right? :) C'mon mon, I burn DVDs! Mode 5, both of them. Besides, if you read my "are we there yet mommy" post, if any blips were to be caused by hard drive activity, that would be where it would happen (drive light on continuously for fifteen minutes). Nothing happens under those conditions.