Jittering MP3s

[Desdinova]

I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem.

I just got a "new" computer at work, and it's a hunk of ****. It's running WinXP Pro (The word "Pro" is questionable IMO). I listen to MP3 CDs at work, and I've never had a problem with WinNT or Win98. Now, I get WinXP, and the problems have started. First of all, the onboard sound "card" sounds like crap, but that's not my biggest problem.



My biggest problem is the MP3s jitter. The higher the bitrate, the more jittering. It jitters when the LED on the CD rom drive blinks. I updated my copy of WinAmp, and it improved a little, but not much. I tried setting everything in WinAmp to full buffer, but that doesn't help either.

I tried changing back to my original CD Rom drive (which I know worked fine) but the problem is still there.

Can anyone help me out here? It's really friggin' irritating.

 

[cant think of a user name]

Is it an option for you to switch back to NT or 98? Maybe WinXP is using too many resources or something (dunno).

 

[Vulpine]

Sounds like a bus problem, if I had any idea what I was talking about. If you got a new computer and motherboard, it could be anything from bus speed or cache size, to RAM and OS/software problems.

Instead of streaming the music from the CD drive, load them onto the harddrive and play them, even if that means you have to delete them afterwards.

There are a buh-zillion problems it could be with the CD drive, so just bypass that problem.

*cough*iPod*cough*

Excuse me. I just had a "different solution" stuck in my throat there. *Erhem*

 

[Desdinova]

*cough*iPod*cough*

LOL! I could always bring my MP3 CD player out of the car and use it here, but that's kind of a pain. And the admin is on holidays, so I'll have to wait until he gets back.

Switching back to NT isn't an option, but I could still use my laptop which is running Win98.