Windows Media Player music clipping and distorting
- From: Charlie3110 <Charlie3110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:56:02 -0800
I have a friend who I have been trying to help because his laptop virtually
stopped when it is in use! We got rid of most programs that he wasn’t using
on a daily basis and it has speeded the machine up a lot but he still has one
problem. He loves to play Windows Media Player through his Bose. He is having
clipping and distortion problems for no reason and I copy his latest mail to
me for you to give me any thoughts? He is not on line or using his machine
except as a music library when all this is happening. I have asked the MS
Windows XP forums as I thought he might be short of RAM (550megs) but they
say it might be a Media Player problem. Can't see that as we have reloaded
the latest WMP and it still happens. If anyone has any ideas then I
appreciate it? Thanks
"I'm typing this listening to WMP and watching the performance of the CPU
and the pagefile usage at the same time trying to see some correlation
between the clipping and the usage. It's the same old story though. It clips
like **** during the opening of Outlook and keeps clipping for a short while
'til it settles down. Pagefile usage went up from about 250 to 316 and CPU
usage went up to briefly 75% and it was still clipping down to about 45%
usage. When I opened your last e-mail to reply the CPU usage went up briefly
to around 48% but it didn't clip and now I'm typing, the CPU is running at 5
- 12% and it's not clipping. Yesterday evening with just WMP running and
nothing else and no one going near the laptop it would play perfectly for a
while then clip badly for a while and then be alright again. As I type it's
been fine for a minute or two and now for some reason the CPU usage shot up
to 44% and it started clipping badly and now it's back down to about10-15%
and it's continuously clipping and I'll have to turn it off if it doesn't
settle. It really is mystifying but looking at all the logs/events/ graphs
etc I can find no evidence that it runs out of memory as there always seems
to be spare physical, and virtual memory nor is the processor running flat
out. I've been through every possible setting I can find and set everything
to "performance" rather than view, etc where possible and I've currently got
a screen that looks like it did in the old days of Windows 3.5 at work, it's
quite nostalgic
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