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A question about MC31 and Windows 10

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ferrarabrainpan:
This is a minor occurrence, not even a problem really, but maybe someone can explain.

Sometimes when I'm playing music with MC31 (and all previous versions I've used) on my Windows 10 PC, with the display showing current library view and playback info, I will notice that the mouse pointer on the screen turns into a blue arrow circle (like when an application is loading in Windows) and the taskbar which is set to always appear disappears, for about 5 or 10 seconds, and then reappears and the blue circle goes away. There is no interruption in playback whatsoever. This happens often enough when I'm playing music, and no other app is running, all browsers are closed, file explorer windows are closed, etc. Of course there are other processes running in the background, but JRiver is the only program open and running at the time.

I'm guessing this might be a background Windows process that causes this momentary interruption in the display, but I searched in Windows Event Viewer for any events that occurred at the exact time this display anomaly happened, and found nothing. So I am wondering if it is an incident of JRiver periodically automatically checking for updates to the program which causes this? If so, where can I adjust the setting within MC31 to make it only check for updates on startup and not during general use? As I said, there is no interruption or audible issues of the playback, only those visible signs I've described.

Everything else is fine, I've been using MC31 after upgrading from MC30 three days ago and it's running smoothly. Also glad to report they added the feature request I made last year for a Toggle List View button in the custom toolbar options.

JimH:
Something may be slowing down file access.  Antivirus?

Make sure you configure Windows Defender.

ferrarabrainpan:

--- Quote from: JimH on May 15, 2023, 12:59:33 am ---Something may be slowing down file access.  Antivirus?

Make sure you configure Windows Defender.

--- End quote ---

Windows Defender is on but I am not sure what settings I might adjust to regulate this issue. Avast Free Antivirus is my main security app.

JimH:

--- Quote from: ferrarabrainpan on May 15, 2023, 10:50:01 am ---Windows Defender is on but I am not sure what settings I might adjust to regulate this issue. Avast Free Antivirus is my main security app.

--- End quote ---
There's a good chance that it's Avast.  Uninstalling is the only way to know. 

Windows Defender is excellent and is, by itself, sufficient.

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varian93:
I too used to frequently experience this issue and have isolated, at least one, thing that causes it. I supposed there may be more.

In my experience it always happens when JRiver is waiting for data from a disk. It used to happen on nearly every playback when I had my settings at "Audio, Settings, Memory Playback" set to anything other than "no memory playback."

All of my media files are stored on a rather slow NAS, which is fast enough to keep up decoding the file on the fly, but too slow to load the whole file into memory before beginning playback.

It's likely anything that causes JRiver to have to wait before it can begin playback.

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