MP3 Plyback Skipping

Chris Schlotzhauer · Post by **Chris Schlotzhauer** » 4 Oct 2005 11:26 am

On my HP laptop (notebook), I have a bunch of songs I downloaded from iTunes or from CD. Why do I get an intermittent pause or skip when I playback? It occurs about once a song. When I burn them to a CD they play fine. Anyone else experience this?

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 4 Oct 2005 11:47 am

If you have Windows XP and less than 512Mb of RAM (memory), that would be the first step.

Bob Martin · Post by **Bob Martin** » 10 Oct 2005 5:50 am

Hi Chris, check your background activities, if your still running apps in the background like browsers, word and such you are probably running out of sys resources more ram and a shutting down unnessecery apps will cure this.

I have a killer Sony Laptop with only 512 mb of ram and this happens to me when I am trying to do stuff in the background it has a 1.6 ghz proccesor and still it seems sluggish when a lot is going on.

Now on my other desktop with 1 gb of ram and a 2.4 ghz proccesor it doesn't happen so I suspect it's a little bit of both ram and processor.