Music "stutters" when played

[Prodigy146]

For the past month my computer seems to stutter music when i play it. it kinda sounds like when your trying to play a music video on a site but it "stutters" because you havent fully buffered it,

but my situation is that my audio collection is on my hard drive but they all sound exactly like that ^^ No matter what player i use it always sounds like that.


Things that might help you diagnose my problem
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-My computer spends 45 seconds longer then usual loading at the boot screen

-My computer seems to stutter (the pointer freezes in place, slows down) whenever i launch bit comet, limewire, messenger, media player, itunes etc.

-Games that i play seem like they take signaficantly long to load

-Music that i play from my hard drive stutters so much that it stops playing whenever i am downloading something from bit comet.

-My computer increases in performance if i keep my free space to 80%
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i really need help with this guys, i have over 2,000 songs and i cant listen to any of em because of how bad it sounds

 

[ace777]

specs?

 

[Prodigy146]

Dell 5150
Intel 945g/cz
P4 3.0 HT
Diamondback 40gb IDE
2x512mb Samsung RAM

 

[Neodude1123201]

Try a defrag using JKdefrag.

http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

 

[Prodigy146]

i used that and it actually worked really well. whats weird is that i still get some skips in my music but hey atleast i can listen to it

 

[Neodude1123201]

Hmmm,How much RAM do you have free when playing music? I Sometimes get this on my laptop,its because its running vista and i only have 1gb RAM.

 

[Kage]

This seems like a computer resource problem to me, somewhere.

It seems like the music is bothering you the most though, and I bet you are using onboard sound.

A dedicated board, however cheap would free up CPU time, stopping the skipping at least you are getting now.

 

[D-Lew]

I'd say do some cleaning up, defrag, spyware and virus scans, the usual...

I know it sounds weird, but I had basically a 10 year old computer that would do the same thing. If it's any newer than that, you honestly shouldn't have a problem.

In addition, I don't think your storage space should have that much to do with speed, besides search time on the hard disc.

Clean up your PC a little, and try Winamp, it's a very low resource player. Let me know how that works out for you.

 

[freestyler105]

You just need to clean up your PC. Preferably reformat, but that may not be an option.

 

[disturbed13]

so you unzipped the package
and then just double clicked on it?
mine wont work

it would help if i get the right version
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