Playback "skipping"

[danhackley]

I've a strange problem with playback of my FLAC files (both normal-res and high-res). I was using Mediamonkey and Foobar, but was noticing that during playback, the tracks seemed to "skip" every 90 seconds or so, where a small glitch could be heard. I thought I would try xxhighend, as it is supposed to load the tracks into memory; however, I still hear the skips!!

Any ideas as to what might be causing this? I'm running the software on a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop running Windows 7 OS and with no other applications installed. Music comes in from a NAS via the ethernet port, and is outputted via the laptop's firewire port to an external Weiss DAC2.

Many thanks

Dan

[PeterSt]

Hi there Dan,

- Does "Split File at size" (Settings Area) make a difference ?
- If you shut off Virtual Memory (Swap File) ..., does that make a difference ?

If not, is that "90 seconds or so" completely repeatable ? (and how many seconds is it exactly ?
If yes, does the Q1 setting makes a difference ?

Anyway, strange ...
Peter

[PeterSt]

Here is an oldie : Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)

... which was with an RME Fireface, and in the very end solved (you may start at the back).
A most rare case, but maybe similar to yours ?

Btw, referring to your thread over at CA ... I saw a kind of similar with my own Fireface800 and heavy cpu spikes with hires material, while no spikes at all are there with Redbook. It didn't bother me at the time I still used the FF, but I never could explain it anyway. Indeed, even when all was idle the spikes (at very regular intervals !) remained ... (IIRC only a reboot would solve it, until 176.4 etc. was selected again).

Peter