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Summary: There are a few different reasons why music will not play smoothly on one's computer, depending on your hardware and how you're playing music. When I play a music CD or try to listen to a wave file off the Internet the music "breaks up" and does not play smoothly. ... Do you have any ideas? Several ideas, actually, depending on the situation. • If "playing a music CD" quite literally means inserting a physical CD into your drive and listening to it directly, then I'll immediately suspect your sound card. Either it's broken or extremely cheap. Most reasonable sound cards take the audio directly from the CD drive and route it to the speakers without your processor getting involved. I'd swap it for another and see if that doesn't resolve the issue. (If this is sound support on your motherboard, then this gets a little tricky, as you can imagine. You can try installing an additional sound card.) If you're attempting to play an MP3 file across a network, or "live" as it's being downloaded from the internet, don't. Try downloading the file locally first and then playing it directly from your hard drive. If this works, then it may simply be a case of your internet connection not being fast enough to keep up with the data stream required to play the audio you've selected. If you're listening to streaming audio stations on the internet then try choosing one with a lower bandwidth requirement. If neither of those applies, then things get interesting. Chances are it's an interrupt or device driver problem. It's even possible that it's not even the sound card's, though it still might be. What could be happening is that a device is hogging the processor long enough to cause your sound card not to be able to push data to the speakers fast enough. Normally that shouldn't happen for two different reasons: a) other devices shouldn't be hogging the processor for that long, and b) your sound card probably shouldn't care if it had a big enough buffer. Certainly I'd make sure that your system and device drivers were as up-to-date as possible. What means visiting both Windows Update as well as your hardware manufacturer's website to look for updated drivers. It's possible, believe it or not, that you might be able to at least affect this problem by rearranging the cards plugged into the slots in your computer. Naturally this isn't something to be done lightly, but what can happen is that the devices can be assigned new priorities and the sound card might come out on top. All that being said, I had exactly this type of problem some time ago, and walked away in frustration. The bottom line is that my machine had come with an incredibly cheap sound card that was in conflict with an equally cheap hard disk controller and there was nothing I could do with it. Related:
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I put a cd in it wont play music why?
Posted by: Mike at January 27, 2006 7:46 AMI have been fixing my cousin's computer, which has got me a little perplexed. It keeps on kicking the sound driver off the computer, it ruins the emulation that I install on their computer to make Sims2 run faster on their computer, and then it goes through and ruins other programs. I don't understand. All the programs run fine on my 3 computers at home. Her computer is set up just like my own.
Posted by: Lou at April 8, 2006 2:53 PMhi leo, ive recently changed my motherboard to a Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8VT800(Pro). I have a problem with the sound and with the video.
Posted by: shanes at August 16, 2006 12:02 AMIm trying to use the onboard sound but windows says it cant detect any audio hardware.
With the video im using an Asus Radeon 9600 Series Card. First there was a lag like when scrolling pages in Internet Explorer, and i was unable to get into games. Now the lag seems to have seems to have fixed itself! And i can get into the game now, but the graphics are terrible.
Please help.
Please,
Posted by: Frank Asare at September 13, 2006 8:43 AMi upgraded my laptop which has (WINDOW 98) to (WINDOW ME) and my sound system is not working again.can you please help me to resolve this problem.Thanks.
Frank.
please i have a new benq dvd-rw i just intalled into my win xp machine. when i play a cd or a dvd on the dvd rom, the sound goes faster and also the vedio movest very fast, what could be the problem?
Posted by: Ludo at October 27, 2006 5:34 AMHi well my situation is kinda different. I am trying to play streaming radio stations off the net. It used to play but now it doesn't. I know it's not my sound card because of 2 reasons. the 1st is that other music play through it, and 2nd is that when the page loads it used to say where is was streaming from but now it doesn't show that, all it shows is that the window opens and the play button are all there but it's like it's not automatically connecting to the streaming site. Please help it used to work and now it doesn't. I tried the site on other computers and it works. Please help
Posted by: Kevin at May 21, 2007 1:42 AMI have been having problems playing certain cds on my computer why is this. It is the soundcard or are some cds protected in some way,any help would you great so I know what to do next bought any MP3 and only some of my albums with play so I can rip them
Posted by: wendy meredith at June 10, 2007 12:57 PMthanks wendy
I don;t think this is apure hardware problem. I can hear breakups whenever my browser is doing something meaningful, even as I scroll the content up and down. I think Windows is simply not good at multiprocessing which requires real-time capabilities, even something as simple as a WAV file palyback.
Posted by: Vincent Kuo at September 10, 2008 9:27 AMafter i burn a cd as a file fron the dead archives it plays on my pc but not my home audio cd player any suggestions
Posted by: skip at September 25, 2008 12:25 AMthanks skip
Hello,
I formated my computer packard bell NEC
spirit 550, and lost my audio video drivers, Used the everest software to find what was missing and where to find it, and yet can not find the exact drivers for it, can you help??
cheers!
Posted by: Rapha at November 8, 2008 2:42 PM