[duboy]

Hey ya'll, just a question, i have a Lombard with 320 megs of RAM and iTunes, now i know that i probably should just turn off VM, and usually i have it off, but i find my system is a bit more stable with it on. Anyway, iTunes will skip when i'm opening up a new IE window, or clicking on finder windows, or IM'ing people, sometimes it'll just skip when i'm doing nothing and i'll hear the HD clatter for a second. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it because of the slower HD in my Lombard? or am i doing something wrong? Thanks! :-)

[duboy]

i just notice now too, it even skips when i click on a link in IE!

[poocat]

i have had the same problem.
luckily i stopped using itunes and went back to audion,
but even now, i think about those skips...
does anyone know how to make it smoother/why it's skipping?

hmmm.
poocat.

[Cipher13]

Thats cause iToons is based on a crappy engine (SoundJams).
Audion is much better. Audion 1.5. Get it. Set the mp3 buffer size as high as it will go (160K for Audion 1.5?), from within the General pane of the preferences window.
It'll almost NEVER skip.

Cipher13

[pdjr]

The most obvious reason is that iTunes is currently version 1.0. It's too new to be as stable as SoundJam or any of the others.

[duboy]

I got Audion and set the buffer to the highest, then i got my old copy of SoundJam and set that buffer to 256Kbps, gave both apps more memory, and they both still skipped. Audion skipped a noticable amount more than SoundJam, but not as much as iTunes. All the file buffers are at the highest setting, and i have allocated at least 2 megabytes over the Preferred memory amount. Oh well, guess i'll turn VM off now. :-)