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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: spons on March 27, 2007, 04:05:33 pm

Title: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: spons on March 27, 2007, 04:05:33 pm

Hi, I am finding that I am getting intereference when i play music on media centre 12. It is when the disk is writing other things. I don't think it is just a n MC12 problem because windows media player is the same which suggest a hardware issue or settings. So I am wondering what is the best setup as regards playing music e.g. Disk cache settings

Title: Re: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: JimH on March 27, 2007, 04:17:35 pm

I wonder if you have a problem with a virus checker:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;topic=32818.6#msg225241

This thread is also worth reading for ideas:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=24031.0

Title: Re: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: gappie on March 27, 2007, 04:21:10 pm

you should tell what system you use. but if it is XP than this is a site with some tips to tune your system specialy for music.
http://www.musicxp.net/tuning_tips.php

Title: Re: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: JimH on March 27, 2007, 04:40:06 pm

Quote from: gappie on March 27, 2007, 04:21:10 pm

you should tell what system you use. but if it is XP than this is a site with some tips to tune your system specialy for music.
http://www.musicxp.net/tuning_tips.php

You should not need to tune anything.  Music should be a very small load on most PC's.  Something else is wrong.

Title: Re: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: gappie on March 27, 2007, 04:49:30 pm

Quote from: JimH on March 27, 2007, 04:40:06 pm

You should not need to tune anything.  Music should be a very small load on most PC's.  Something else is wrong.

i agree about music, in normal use. but mr spons says the problem occurs when the computer is doing other things also. and tuning your pc can help a lot then.

Title: Re: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: sithlord0338 on March 27, 2007, 05:45:10 pm

I had a similar problem which was caused by faulty IDE cable.  The cable was pretty beat up and crinkly.  Once I replaced this it went away.  Could it be something like this? 

Title: Re: settings on the Pc for music?
Post by: JONCAT on March 28, 2007, 12:58:22 am

Maybe outdated but some used to recommend switching Processor Scheduling to Background Services & also Memory Usage to system cache in Advanced Settings of Windows. 

I find that if me EMU ASIO latency is super low I can cause some pops & clicks when moving a huge Playing Now screesaver around.

What OS? Paging file(s) on two drives?

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