music tracks skipping whilst playing in windows media player?

Question

Hi. Does anyone know why windows media player on my pc may be skipping sections of tracks as I play them? it's very slight (about 1 or 2 seconds) and only now and again but is noticable, the tracks themselves are totally fine so must something else. Same thing happens wether multi tasking or not. thanks

The tracks are off the hard drive, not cd.. the tracks are fine and media player on a previous laptop played fine with no such problems.

Answer 1

I've had that happen to me in the past. Something to do with the way the cd (i'm assuming it's music from a cd?) was recorded (have you made the cd yourself?).

Windows media player can't the tracks in full and that causes the music to skip every now and then

Answer 2

Don't know, but would advise switching to WINAMP. Great free player. You can use it to organise your music files as well.
Open the player, right click on any blank area of the player, and in the box, click on View File Info.. and in the box that opens you can fill in all you know about the track playing (ID3v1 & 2 Tags)
Click on Update, and watch your files change. The title (name) of the file you still have to rename using the folder Music Tasks or by right clicking on the file.

Answer 3

10 to 1 it's something to do with DRM.

Microsoft keeps making WMP more and more complex in an effort to 'defeat' the anti-DRM hackers that by now 99% of what WMP executes is just 'junk code' put in to obscure the true sequence of operation.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that WMP was contacting MS across the web every few seconds just to check if the track it's playing is 'legal' or not.

Go get winamp - and try to avoid getting any DRM software or 'copy protected' music material on your PC.

Answer 4

Sick of WMP problems I changed to Winamp (free). so far so good and burned CD's sound much better. It is also childs play to use.