Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Scronch]

I've seen this twice now--once with 8.0.336, and once with an earlier version of 8.  I can't re-create it consistently.  I can have MJ play music for hours and hours with no problem, if I don't manipulate Playing Now (PN) very much.  However, I recently did a LOT of manipulation of PN while MJ was playing--I changed the order of upcoming playback, removed a lot of songs, and added others.  I did this a lot over the course of about 3 hours.  Suddenly, the music began to "cut out" for about a second or two.  It cut out twice, about 5 seconds apart.  Then about 20 sec later, it cut out once.  Then about a minute later, it cut out 3 times, each about 5 to 10 sec apart.  I was not manipulating PN when most of the cutouts took place.

I've seen some discussion of gaps or cut-outs on this forum, but don't remember a specific bug or fix.  I'm running 8.0.346 on this system, but 8.0.336 on the system where I had the problem recently.  That system has WinXP, a 1.2GHz Celeron, 128MB RAM, and the music is sent digitally through the USB port to a stereo-link and then on to an analog amp.  MJ is the only application running.

I'm guessing this is one of those situations where the Wave Out Setting should be adjusted more toward More Skip Resistant and away from More Responsive.  I haven't done that yet.  What I'd like to know is:

1) What exactly does "More Responsive" mean, i.e. what am I really changing?

2) How far over over should I move the slider?  I realize the answer is "until you don't have any more problems", but this I encounter this problem so infrequently that I'd like to make sure it's fixed, but I don't want to saddle the system with an unnecessary limit.

Scronch

[Matt]

1) What exactly does "More Responsive" mean, i.e. what am I really changing?

The amount of "immediate" buffering.  More buffering makes things less likely to skip, but it also makes it so seeks and fades take longer to kick in.

Not sure if that helps at all...

-Matt

[Scronch]

Yes, it does.

>but it also makes it so seeks and fades take longer to kick in.

If I understand that correctly, then 'More Skip Resistant' will have no effect on music streams that are set up many seconds (or minutes or hours) in advance.  The only issue is when you "drop" a song in as the next to be played, when the currently playing song is almost over.  And that the initial startup of the stream may take an extra second or two.

Do I have that right?

Thanks.

Steve

[Robert]

Thanks so much for the help Matt and Steve. The skip slide got most
of the skips, and I put seeks on fast and fade on fast and it took
care of the problem.
         You guys are music savers. Life savers that is.

[Scronch]

Glad to hear it.  I'm curious--did you move slide all the way over to "More Skip Resistant"?  I haven't had a chance to play with this yet.

Scronch