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[udeups]

Lately, if I'm playing audio (mp3 format) and try to rip a CD at the same time, the audio starts crackling and doesn't stop until I cancel the CD rip. As of about a month ago, this wasn't the case. Either something changed in my MC config or on my system. Does anyone have any ideas? I searched the forum with no success.


System info below...

Media Center Registered 10.0.90 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1784 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 256 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive F: BTC     BCE3212IM         Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive G:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive F: BTC      BCE3212IM          Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:32  MaxSpeed:32  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[udeups]

To clarify... the audio that is ripped from the CD turns out fine, it is the audio that is currently playing to my stereo via MC that starts crackling when the ripping starts...

[pipsqueak]

udueps

check your processor usage when ripping the CD. if im running multi tasks and it pushes the processor to 100%. MC playback starts to suffer - there are periodic (but very short) silences.

pip

[udeups]

Thanks Pip. Processor usage is normal. MC is the only program I've got running. It's not so much a buffering type of a thing (I think!), it's more that the audio gets crackled. It's not really skipping like it would with a buffering problem....

Thanks for the suggestion, though!