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DCJensen - Nov 27, 2005 7:27:53 am PST #5720 of 10003
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Jon B. - Nov 27, 2005 11:18:24 am PST #5721 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm using iTunes 6.0.1.3 on Windows XP. I have a dedicated hard drive for my songs (currently over 24,000 songs occupying over 120GB of space). For a while now, whenever I play a song, it stops after about 13 or 14 seconds. If I click on the pause button, then again when it's changed to a play button, it'll play for another 13-14 seconds and then stop. Lather, rinse, repeat. This happens even if there are no other programs open.
This didn't used to happen, but I can't pinpoint what may have changed to cause the problem to appear. Any suggestions?
t edit I actually moved all the songs to a different physical drive to see if it would help. It didn't.
Eddie - Nov 27, 2005 1:57:38 pm PST #5722 of 10003
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That's a weird one Jon B.
You might try this
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This seems to be a more graphical version of the above
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Also, check to see if Windows is indexing and/or compressing those drives, and if so, turn that off. Check your iTunes buffer settings.
Jon B. - Nov 27, 2005 3:10:00 pm PST #5723 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You might try this [link]
The newest version of Quicktime is organized differently. Under Audio, I've got "Safe mode (waveOut only)" checked. If I de-check that option, the player stutters terribly, so it looks like I've got the settings set correctly.
Also, check to see if Windows is indexing and/or compressing those drives, and if so, turn that off.
Nope.
Check your iTunes buffer settings.
Been there, done that.
t edit Hey, it was indexing that drive. I'm turning it off right now and will report back momentarily.
tommyrot - Nov 27, 2005 3:15:42 pm PST #5724 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jon, I'm curious - does the bitrate of the song you're playing have any effect on the length of time a song will play before stopping? I'm thinking that if a lower bitrate song plays longer, that might indicate that the song stops playing when a fixed-size buffer is used up. Not sure what that would get us, but....
Also (unrelatedly), does this problem occur for both mp3s and AAC files?
Jon B. - Nov 27, 2005 3:16:07 pm PST #5725 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Nope. Removing indexing was no help.
tommyrot - Nov 27, 2005 3:20:02 pm PST #5726 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, are the drives in question set to sleep after a period of no activity? (They shouldn't be sleeping after such a short time, but....)
Jon B. - Nov 27, 2005 3:25:18 pm PST #5727 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Nearly all my songs are encoded mp3s at 192. I think I have exactly one AAC file, and it did just play all the way through for me. I have a few uncompressed wav files and they sometimes do a little better, but not always.
Drives aren't set to sleep.
tommyrot - Nov 27, 2005 3:31:12 pm PST #5728 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't have a working XP box here at the moment - what does iTunes use to play mp3s - Quicktime, or whatever DLL that came with XP?
DCJensen - Nov 27, 2005 3:38:01 pm PST #5729 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Have you checked for spyware lately? Something could be interfering.
Did anyone suggest checking for drive fragmentation? an interrupted cache could be as bad as a too-small one. A fragged System Paging file can happen, too.
Just some ideas...