I have a really annoying problem. Sometimes, just in the middle of listening to something the audio stutters. it sounds like a real fast repeat of the same sound frame. I have this problem with winamp etc too.

I read another topic about it, but the solution there was don't use onboard. I have a sb live! 5.1

further specs:
2200+
512 ram
winxp sp2
foobar 0.8.3

have you got the latest chipset and soundcard drivers installed?

Yep. I have the latest drivers installed.

is the music in cue sheet + audio file, format ?

and

what formats are you using ?

i'm using a mix of mp3 and wma. no exotic formats, because limewire almost never has those . I'm not using cue sheets. I just put about 2k songs in a directory and loaded them into a playlist.

ok,

hmmm, what ouput method are you using, directsound, waveout .......

any. every output has the same. i even tangled with the buffer length, no good. directsound settings didnt help in directsound mode.

After a reboot it's usually gone. But after a while when it's on for a longer time, it starts coming. and after a while its gone. Strange. No strange cpu spikes or anything. I have no clue at all.

is the sblaster live sharing an irq with any other devices ?

Yeah with my vid card(gf 4400) but it's strange theyre on 16. i thought there were only 15?

try changing the pci slot, usually the 3rd pci slot down will have it 's own irq (AKA the middle one)

I have 23 irqs that show up in system information

ok well, i changed the location. since that the fade which is automatically set to 200ms works. strange well we'll see how it holds.

Thx for the help.

fingers crossed