Thanks Neil. I will change the Codec priorities back again and I will
certainly check out ZachD's site. Not sure about it being a sound card
driver problem because I am using a USB audio adaptor in place of the Dell
soundcard (I'm on my third motherboard!) and I've known it to happen using
either sound device.
Any other thoughts?
Cheers
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Malcolm
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:39:01 -0800, Malc
> <> wrote:
>
> >I am running WMP9 on XP Home on a Dell Vostro. Audio playback will
> >occasionally get part way through a track and get stuck. The effect being the
> >last fraction of s second of music is rapidly repeated until I manuall select
> >another track. This can happen on any track at any time. Seems totally
> >random. Can sometimes run for hours without it happening. Having read other
> >problems on this page, I have tried changing the priority of the Windows
> >Media Codec from 7 to 1. I have yet to see if this solves the problem. Does
> >anyone else have a suggestion as to what could be causing it?
>
> I'd undo whatever it was about the windows media codec you changed,
> that will probably have bad effects unless you have a very specific
> idea what it was you messed with and why...
>
> ZachD's site http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#dsound has lots of helpful
> info about sound / playback problems which should apply to your XP
> machine - most usefully updating the sound card driver software from
> the Dell site - but try all of the listed steps to see which helps.
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
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