Ever since it was installed, it’s had these episodes of “stuttering” – it just replays a small fraction of a second of the same music over several times, then moves on. While it is doing this, everything else is also frozen. Initially, it was few and far between enough that I lived with it. But recently, especially since my upgrade to version 6, it’s been getting worse. I’ve read through the iTunes troubleshooting area, tried everything they suggested, no luck.
It could be a lot of things not to do with itunes.
I would chkdsk all the hard drives first. Try a defrag of the hard drives. Allowing windows to index the hard drives can give the system jitters. Make sure if you have MS Office installed that the findfast program doesn’t run. Uninstall findfast if it’s on the system. Lastly use the task manager processes window to set the program to Above Normal Priority if the other things don’t help.
Does that include going to the Control Panel -> Quicktime and checking the “Safe Mode (Wave Out Only)” option? I had a problem with cracking sound during playback, and that fixed it.
It sounds like a drive access problem. Either the drives are busy writen a cache of data, the drive has errors, or the system drive interface is not right.
Check that you system pagefile is set to auto and not too small a manualy set size. You should try assigning the pagefile to a different hard drive if you have two in the system.
Same here. I’ve been listening to music (it doesn’t seem to matter what the exact program is, as long it’s on the hard drive) and using the internet and will get a slight stutter at times while a new page is loading. I assume it’s the writing into the cache. Though sometimes I wonder if there could also be a bit of a memory issue.