JR only plays for a few seconds and then starts the buffering process. How do I get it to stop? I tried rebooting the computer but that had no effect. I can no longer play music without this happening.
Just for reference....
I run MC(18) on a Core i3-3225 based PC, 8GB Ram, Synology NAS via gig-E, WASAPI-Event, Async USB to DAC (W4S DAC-2 and now Esoteric D-07X)
I ran MC(17) on similiar setup with Core i3-2130, as well at one point on an Intel "Atom" based motherboard.
I ran with Kernel Streaming for at least a year, then switched over to WASAPI-Event about 6 months ago. (reason being that using PAUSE in Kernel Streaming caused crashing for me. otherwise, Kernel Streaming worked perfectly.... assuming I never used the pause button)
None of these setups skipped, or ever re-buffered for an instant.. ever, never ever. I would not know how to make them skip. I never had to change ANY MC settings for latency, buffering amout etc. from default.
Initial playback buffering on a new random track is about 1/2 second on 192/24 bit media (I don't have any higher res) and virtually instantaneous on 44/16 media.
At one point I used Play-From-Ram, This caused a slightly longer buffering for initial play, but again no skips ever during a track playback.
Only reason I'm saying this is that if you find yourself having to "tweak" MC settings in order to get stable playback, that's fine..and if you can find a set of tweaks that work, even better of course, BUT, something in the PC, Storage, Connection between the two, or other, is on the edge. My suspicion is that you'll find a set of settings that work, about 98% of the time. Good Luck!