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Posted by vhx1 on Sep-23-2003 04:24:

MP3's skipping HELP

I recently installed some antivirus program: Sophos Antivirus since my university required it to be installed. However, now, my mp3's are constantly skipping when I'm trying to listen to them. THis is pissing me off!!! Anyone have any idea as to how to fix this

Posted by vhx1 on Sep-23-2003 04:25:

I'm using Winamp3 and this only started happening after I installed the anti virus software

Posted by J.L. on Sep-23-2003 05:00:

1. switch universities
2. uninstall the program
3. live off-campus
4. listen to the radio
5. burn your songs on CD and then listen to it on a CD player
6. grab an empty garbage can, 2 drum sticks.. now flip the garbage can and with your left hand, hit the middle of the can in a 4/4 pattern... for the high hats hit the edges of the garbage can to give it a sizzle... now hum your favourite tune along with it and voila! trance at its finest

Posted by Orbax on Sep-23-2003 05:00:

number 1, winamp 3 is a total piece of shit us WA 2

number 2, if the antivirus is scanning its probably takin up tons of memory, thus making using other files a pain. how much RAM you got

Posted by DJ A.i on Sep-23-2003 06:43:

winamp in general is a piece of shit. but yea... it really depends on the specs of your computer.

Posted by arleetec on Sep-23-2003 07:26:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ A.i
winamp in general is a piece of shit. but yea... it really depends on the specs of your computer.

waht mp3 player do you use?

Posted by DJ A.i on Sep-23-2003 13:08:

i just use windows media player.. very simple and much more stable then winamp. i used to use winamp b/c i love the different skins on it.. but it would crash here and there... so i just switched to my media player.... it hasnt crashed on me yet.

Posted by dj raymond wade on Sep-23-2003 13:36:

You either have to increase your RAM or just change mp3 players and see if that solves it. Otherwise look in the options of the virus software to see if there is a way to run the program on less memory.

Posted by igottaknow on Sep-23-2003 16:39:

quote:
Originally posted by kewlness
1. switch universities
2. uninstall the program
3. live off-campus
4. listen to the radio
5. burn your songs on CD and then listen to it on a CD player

Posted by vhx1 on Sep-23-2003 22:23:

HAha yea winamp3 has been pissing me off alot lately. It fucking crashes randomly and takes so long to load

Posted by whiskers on Sep-23-2003 23:53:

quote:
Originally posted by vhx1
HAha yea winamp3 has been pissing me off alot lately. It fucking crashes randomly and takes so long to load

fuck, it started going haywire on me too. it's eating up memory for some strange reason, never used to do it until a couple days ago. it's ridiculous - 100 megs for winamp??? wtf?

Posted by Chris Crossland on Sep-24-2003 00:20:

My winamp is working fine i have been listening to it for an hour strait so far and it is holding up and i have an eMachines they suck ass but its been being good to me so im not going to complain

^^^100 megs!!!! mines only 4kb

Posted by Orbax on Sep-24-2003 00:35:

plus winamp 2 can enqueue folders and directories where as 3 cannot. Win Media is only for videos or if you are watching the visuals

Posted by DJ A.i on Sep-24-2003 06:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbax
plus winamp 2 can enqueue folders and directories where as 3 cannot. Win Media is only for videos or if you are watching the visuals

you can play mp3 with media player... dont know why but it runs alot better then winamp on my computer.

Posted by Maikeru on Sep-24-2003 09:51:

How many programs do you have runing at once? If you have to many you may have a memory problem while Anti-virus is running. I have Norton Anti Virus 2003 pro, and using Winamp 3. Everything is running fine for me. You can get the version I have from Kazaa or some other downloading utility.

Edit In: I just checked my task manager, and i'm only using 5.5 Mb of memory. That's with 6 playlists with over 2000 songs in each.

Posted by noikeee on Sep-24-2003 11:09:

i thought windows media player used a lot more of memory than winamp (2). never had any problem at all with my winamp, apart from crashes and bugs related to plugins i installed. the plugins, skins, etc make it a lot better than media player IMO..

and whatever you do, don't touch winamp 3 - now that's a piece of shit software.

Posted by vhx1 on Oct-09-2003 05:18:

My computer was fine until i installed that antivirus program. I am sure it has something to do with it