my music gets fuzzy

[frogman47]

how come when i try to have limewire running and firefox open at the same time and i try to play a song the music gets fuzzy like the cpu is trying to do to much and it cant play the music clear so it comes out fuzzy but when i just have lime wire open it plays fine i have a gig of ram and 3.2ghz processor if that matters... any ideas (it does the same thing with windows media player....sometimes its worse...

[fink]

Have a look in task manager to see how much of the CPU each of the programs is using while music plays. You could try temporarily setting Limewire and/or Firefox priorities lower by a notch and see if that does anything.. (right click the item in taskmanager/processes and select priority)

[Starman99]

Your problem could be one or a combination of things.

First, if you have onboard audio such as AC97, playing an mp3 or other compressed format takes cpu time away from other processes. If the mp3 is not processed promptly it's going to be poor quality. I just installed a sound card for this reason (not for any audio benefit).

Many online progs such as filesharing and leeching seem to hog the pc. Even if you set the process priority to low you can still feel the pc is sluggish. The amount of processor power used is minimal but somehow the progs are hogging the interrupts (or something similar). You may have a conflict between Firefox and Limewire trying to be top hog and the music is the loser. Firefox is normally very low profile. Per fink's suggestion, try lowering Limewire's process priority.

Starman*