Music playback "skips"

Strygun · 2006-12-27, 05:54 PM

Hey folks,

I've been having a problem recently with my music playback. On my computer, I have all the songs that I own in mp3 or m4a format. When I play them (using any software... including WMP10 and iTunes7), there are random "skips" in the songs. It sounds exactly like what happens when a CD is lightly scratched. It's not a repetitive-playback of the last second like a deep CD scratch, but just a "hiccup" in the playback.

Now, here's what I know:
It happens in both WMP10 and iTunes7.
It doesn't happen in the same place in the song every time.
My computer is "idling" other than just the music program. (I.E., no major tasks running.)
It happens with both CD-imported music and iTunes-downloaded music.
When I noticed this problem, I updated my sound drivers thinking that was the problem. (it wasn't.)
A few months ago, it never happened. Within the past month, it's become regular.

Any help?!

Setari · 2006-12-27, 06:15 PM

It might be your sound card itself. That's all I can think of it being.

MattxMosh · 2006-12-27, 06:55 PM

Did you destroy all traces of your previous sound drivers?

Biohazzard56 · 2006-12-27, 07:43 PM

In dxdiag, try playing around with your hardware sound acceleration. The slider should be all the way to the right.

Like Matt suggested; remove the traces of any previous drivers. If that doesnt work. Uninstall and then Reinstall the card from Device Manager.

Strygun · 2006-12-27, 07:52 PM

Here's another bit of info: it doesn't always happen. For example, I just listened to about 10 songs in a row and didn't hear any skipping whatsoever.

Biohazzard56 · 2006-12-27, 10:12 PM

Still sounds like corrupted drivers or driver fragments.

Strygun · 2006-12-28, 10:37 AM

Can I get some detailed instructions as to how to hunt down the old drivers and delete them? Or instructions as to how to do anything to fix this?

Kam · 2006-12-28, 03:59 PM

Spybot has an option to remove drivers that are no longer in use or fragmented.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Strygun · 2006-12-28, 07:29 PM

Can anyone interpret this? This is the "system internals" scan in Spybot:

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Strygun · 2006-12-28, 07:30 PM

Code:

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Lonehunter · 2006-12-29, 01:04 AM

Well to me it looks like I really wish I knew what the hell I was talking about right now so I could seem semi intelligent.

Shoulda went to college.

Hamma · 2006-12-29, 12:23 PM

It doesnt look good, run the repair

Strygun · 2006-12-29, 02:24 PM

Lol... where's Marsman when you need him? This is right up his alley...

Hamma · 2006-12-29, 08:09 PM

He's "around"

Strygun · 2007-01-31, 06:24 PM

hey folks, this is a bump.

I've noticed that the sound in videos that I play, both on the internet and on my computer, does NOT skip whatsoever. Does this mean that it's fixable, or do I have to send this laptop back to the makers?