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Sealobo · Jun 24, 2002, 06:11 AM

Since 10.1.4... my iTune skips (when playing local mp3) when i surf the net using IE...

I have the "old" TiBook 667 + 512 MB of RAM.

WJMoore · Jun 24, 2002, 06:34 AM

nope... I have only ever heard iTunes skip on 2 or 3 occations in the 7 or 8 months I've had my iBook (specs below). There must be something amiss with your setup considering it's better speced than mine.

Wesley

Vanquish · Jun 24, 2002, 06:58 AM

It skips when you get a kernel panic !

starfleetX · Jun 24, 2002, 02:27 PM

Solution: Don't use Internet Explorer.

Well, someone had to say it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

pat++ · Jun 24, 2002, 02:34 PM

It does not skip on my 500Mhz iBook. There must be something wrong with your setup...

Magicite · Jun 24, 2002, 03:00 PM

YES! I've always had this problem. It's very annoying, and it *only* happens when IE is running. The only way to correct this problem is to stop and play the song, or move on to another song. VERY annoying, and it's just another reason for me to be using mozilla right now <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

clod · Jun 24, 2002, 03:05 PM

No, it's never happened to me.

OwlBoy · Jun 24, 2002, 03:15 PM

only once in awhile in OS 9...

-Owl

Back up 15 and punt · Jun 24, 2002, 03:30 PM

No it doesn't happen here either.

KidRed · Jun 24, 2002, 03:42 PM

nope, not here on my dual gig.

I wonder how many nos are coming from a dual owner tho?

ckohler · Jun 24, 2002, 03:49 PM

The only time iTunes ever skips on me is when I insert a CD. It pauses while it scans the CD (I'm guessing). I wish it didn't do that. Otherwise, it never skips even when using programs that do lots of encoding and processor intensive stuff.

MrBS · Jun 24, 2002, 04:00 PM

iTunes skips occasionally for me, it (SJ/iTunes) NEVER skipped in OS 9. Many a time my computer would crash. I'd sit there, contemplating work lost or just wondering why, and wait for the song that was playing to end. That's stability. The OS and everything else on the comp was toast but the song would keep playing until it ended.
~BS

Orbit · Jun 24, 2002, 07:49 PM

ya, i miss mac os 9... i mean, no skips... sure it crashed, but never skipped... os x is so stupid and slow, and i hate all the stupid eye candy. apple is abandoning its customers and just doing whatever steve jobs tells them to...

i mean, we never *asked* for protected memory and preemptive multitasking, and now look, our mp3s skip! i'm going to buy a compaq...

Cellery · Jun 24, 2002, 10:58 PM

Yeah, my Rev. B Ti667 also skips the music a lot when IE is in use. My DP800 is flawless though. <img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" />

LeeG · Jun 24, 2002, 11:36 PM

From time to time, esp while browsing, I'll hear itunes studder and then the hard drive spin up, and once it does, the song resumes - weird. Been happening for some time now on my AGP500 (sawtooth)

Lee

macmike42 · Jun 25, 2002, 12:56 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Orbit:
ya, i miss mac os 9... i mean, no skips... sure it crashed, but never skipped... os x is so stupid and slow, and i hate all the stupid eye candy. apple is abandoning its customers and just doing whatever steve jobs tells them to...

i mean, we never *asked* for protected memory and preemptive multitasking, and now look, our mp3s skip! i'm going to buy a compaq...<hr /></blockquote>Oh I hope that is sarcasm.

I've never had iTunes, MALT, or XMMS (once the Fink team fixed esd) skip on me, under OS 9 or X. This includes times when I've had the load average between 8 and 9, and my machine is a lowly 300 MHz G3. I suspect this is an iBook/PowerBook related issue.

iNeusch · Jun 25, 2002, 01:01 AM

I never skips for me... but I use Omni

gattur · Jun 25, 2002, 01:20 AM

Never skipped on me with a iMac 500DV. I haven't used iTunes since I got my iPod, I just always listen to music with the iPod. It sounds better then the headphone jack on the iMac and doesn't take-up processing power. Headphones designed for Andr� the Giant are being inserted now!!

undotwa · Jun 25, 2002, 01:23 AM

In OS 9 I don't think it was actually playing the music through software, it was playing it through hardware. So if you were playing an audio CD, the computer crashed, no matter how bad, it would still play. It also meant no skips. I think they do the same for iTunes. It's a shame they don't do this in X however.

Cipher13 · Jun 25, 2002, 03:23 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by undotwa:
In OS 9 I don't think it was actually playing the music through software, it was playing it through hardware. So if you were playing an audio CD, the computer crashed, no matter how bad, it would still play. It also meant no skips. I think they do the same for iTunes. It's a shame they don't do this in X however.<hr /></blockquote>No, that's only when playing a CD... not an MP3.

When playing a CD, depending on the app, it'd go straight from the CD drive to the sound out (essentially).

OverclockedHomoSapien · Jun 25, 2002, 05:16 AM

Yeah, i've got this problem, but it's with ANY network activity, not just IE.

When connecting and disconnecting my modem connection, iTunes always skips, no matter if it's playing an mp3 or a CD. It also happens occasionally during heavy network activity.

This has been the case since 10.1.0, when I first began using OS X. No update has changed it in the slightest bit.

I've pretty much given up on a solution. It seems like most people don't have this problem, and Apple seems to care more about ethernet/broadband connections than they do about modem connections.

Jun 25, 2002, 05:21 AM

I had that problems many many times on my old iBook, yet, I found a solution:
There is this check box in iTunes called "battery saving" or so (just know the German word). It is at the bottom under the last tab - advanced. So, this brought many many skips on my iBook. After I unchecked the box, my life was good again.

May be a solution.

Steve