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A question about MC31 and Windows 10

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ferrarabrainpan:

--- Quote from: varian93 on May 28, 2023, 05:06:24 am ---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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I was going to try your suggestion but my settings were already on No Memory Playback (by default, I guess, since I never changed that setting). Thanks anyway. Must be something else at fault here. Not losing sleep over it in any case...

EnglishTiger:
Seeing the occasonal momentary rotating blue bircle when MC is running can sometimes be because a background Task, like Auto-Import or Building Thumbnails is doing something.

ferrarabrainpan:

--- Quote from: EnglishTiger on May 28, 2023, 10:09:28 am ---Seeing the occasonal momentary rotating blue bircle when MC is running can sometimes be because a background Task, like Auto-Import or Building Thumbnails is doing something.

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Possibility, yes. I unchecked the box for 'Run auto-import in background' and will see. I added a top menu button for 'Run auto-import now' and I always manually click that whenever I've added new files or edited tags or names of existing files or folders, so there is no need to have it running in the background in my case. As for Building Thumbnails, I don't know...

JimH:
It can also mean that disk access is slow for some reason.

ferrarabrainpan:
I finally figured out the cause of this issue. One day I experienced a playback hiccup that was apparently due to Windows downloading OS updates automatically (even though I always set Windows Update to OFF for 'get the latest updates as soon as they're available'). Since then, I've made a habit of always having Update set to "Pause updates for seven days" (unpausing it when I want to check for updates). I haven't experienced the issue described in my first post above since doing that.

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