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[jgreen8240]

Folks,

Have been encountering a problem once intermittent and now the norm. I have delays in media center acting to commands. I will see "waiting" in the bar at the top of media center and the song may take 20 seconds to load. All commands like pause, volume, skip song, etc are delayed for excessive times. Running Windows 10. Have done all the typical things I know to do like reboot, reinstall media center and so looking for any suggestions.

Thanks,
Jim

[AndrewFG]

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Check if your media is on a drive that goes to sleep..

[jgreen8240]

Appreciate your help. Drive does not sleep though

[RD James]

Try reducing the prebuffering to 2 seconds and make sure that memory playback is disabled.

[jgreen8240]

RD,

Thanks for the suggestions. Memory playback is disabled. resetting prebuffering time. For my continued education why is the default 6 and not less if it can cause delays potentially?

Thanks!

[RD James]

Thanks for the suggestions. Memory playback is disabled. resetting prebuffering time. For my continued education why is the default 6 and not less if it can cause delays potentially?

Pre-buffering means that it's less likely to skip during the beginning of playback if there's heavy disk/network access, but can introduce a delay depending on your disk/network speed - especially if the memory playback option is enabled.
A 20 second wait usually indicates slow disk/network access though, often a disk spinning up or a connection being made.
It's also possible that your playback device takes a long time to switch sample rates if you're playing a mixture of tracks.

[jgreen8240]

Thanks so much for the explanation.