Guys,
Thanks for the ideas.
I will consider and work with them.
However, today it is back to the "salt mines". Possibly late tonight or some time on Thursday I can check some of these suggestions.
I will tell you that last night I was able to play multiple tracks all the way through. I am still having trouble with the pause play thing.
I did increase the pre buffer. Not sure if that had anything to do with the ability to play a complete track. I will check it. I just wanted to listen last night
so that was enough.
FYI this is not a RAID nor is it a NAS. Internal hard drive 500 gig, all songs ripped with EAC to WAV along time ago. Within the past month album WAV's split to individual tracks, but.....
The pause play behavior occurred, the first time, right after installing the MC17 upgrade, and before any of the WAV's were split. I uninstalled MC17 and did a Windows rollback to cure the behavior back then.
I only play music, no video files on the drive. Not sure how a drive error could occur at the same place in a track with multiple tracks. Those track would be sitting all over the drive in random locations.
More likely a software interaction. I am thinking the buffer was too small, and a software conflict happened when MC17 attempted to get the next batch of data for the buffer. I am wondering if the "file stops playing at" problem might not occur when "playing" from disc, and not memory?
This will all have to wait for later.
Again, thanks for the ideas
Bruce