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Wndows Media Player (Vista)

  • 31-08-2007 12:30pm
    #1
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    Just got a new PC a while back with Visat and WMP v.11. Thing is it's unusually slow. When selecting a track to play, for example, it takes about five seconds for the song to begin playing. Also - and more frustratingly - it takes forever to rip and burn CDs, much longer than previous versions on XP. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    How much RAM do you have?
    In my experience 1.5GB or even 2GB of RAM is the minimum I would have in a Vista system.

    1GB is bareable
    512MB is unrealistic.


  • #3
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Same problem on XP with WMP11 only started happening recently. I can't remember if I updated it or something.


  • #4
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    IrishTLR wrote:
    How much RAM do you have?
    In my experience 1.5GB or even 2GB of RAM is the minimum I would have in a Vista system.

    1GB is bareable
    512MB is unrealistic.

    I have 2046MB / 2GB RAM...surely that's enough? There's barely anything that's vacuuming memory


  • #5
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    herbieflowers wrote:
    I have 2046MB / 2GB RAM...surely that's enough? There's barely anything that's vacuuming memory

    That would be more than enough for every day use.

    It could be this


  • #6
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    There is some reported weirdness going on with MP3's and the audio enchantments feature in Vista.

    Go into the sound control panel and bring up the properties of your audio device and in one of the tabs there may be a disable all enhancements function tick the box for that and see how it goes.

    As for CD ripping not sure, just in case check to be sure it is not playing the track while ripping it as sometimes software does that e.g iTunes and will slow the process down.


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  • #7
    Soundman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Soundman


    Could also be a codec problem. I haven't had any issues myself in the last 3 months of using Vista.

    Try installing these:

    Vista Codec Pack v4.4.9 Final Release


  • #8
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Yeah all background functions (file conversions etc.) asre off, there's nothing running in the background anyway and the CD isn't playing as it rips. I'll see how the Codec Pack goes anyway. Thanks for everyone's help!


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