Occasionally playback in foobar is distorted or garbled. It happens at random and can be quickly cleared by stopping the track and starting it again. I am normally working while listening to music, but not doing things which strain the system at all. Has this sort of thing been heard of before?

Which output component are you using?

What soundcard do you have?

Yes , sorry, I dropped the ball there a bit.

Right, the files are allways Ogg Vorbis and the souncard's onboard my NF7-2 mainboard. I know it can't be as good as dedicated card, but I did read some good reviews of this board's sound qualities.

The rest of my system is built round an Athlon 2400 and 512m of good quality ram so I don't think that the system is getting anywhere near overloaded when playing music and working at the same time. I routinely move round large files while playing music etc. so there seems to be plenty of resources available. I'm running Windows 2000sp4 and Server 2003 and this distortion happen occasionally in both operating systems - about once or twice a week.

In each instance Foobar itself is a stock install of the special download with the addition of foo_columns under Win2k.

Any insight will be warmly appreciated.

This is an nforce board, right? I had the same problem on all formats using any player - it would play okay for a while then seem to lose sync or something and garble. Pausing and continuing sorted it. I upgraded to the latest WHQL drivers and all was good.

Wow, thanks for the reply. I had no idea about these drivers and was just using the ones produced by Abit for the mainboard. Doh!

Downloading now...

Thanks heaps.