Thanks Trembovetski. Java+WinAmp are running of the main HD. A 120Gb “WDC WD1200VE-00KWT0”, however, the MP3s are stored on an external USB HD (WD 150Gb).
The sound card is also a USB SPDIF sound card. And Device Manager tells me the video card is a Mobile Intel 945GM.
Cheers.
Do you get audio hickups when reading really large files (like a few hundred MB) from the main drive, into notepad.exe or wordpad.exe
If not, JPS might simply be running at a high thread priority.
Started a song. Loaded a 128Mb Tomcat log file into Notepad (largest log file I could find), no problems. It actually loaded surprisingly quickly (about 5 seconds).
try loading it from the usb drive
unlikely to cause the problem, as jqs isn’t loading files from the usb drive either
Tried it anyway. Music still played no problems. Tried loading it a few times. No hiccups.
what happens if you go to the taskmanager and set the priority of the JQS process to ‘lowest’.
Went to change it, but it was already set at “low” which is the lowest. I guess it does it by default.