need help (stupid)

carrieann · 16th February 2004, 18:27

Please Help Me. I have questions concerning something called buffering,,

Qaxar · 16th February 2004, 18:36

What's the question? Buffering is basically a read ahead function for the tracks that, mainly, makes the playback run smoothly.

carrieann · 16th February 2004, 18:44

well the question is when a song is playing, it keeps stopping and starts buffering again.. never plays the song with out interuption... is this supposed to happen???

Qaxar · 16th February 2004, 19:55

Oh, I guess you are referring to playing (streaming) radio music. You probably are using a low speed, dial uo modem. If this is true, then the problem is that the amount of music streaming into your PC that gets buffered is not enough to keep up with a normal flow of the playing music, so it starts and stops.

I don't use that feature much, so don't know a lot about it. But I do know that, if this is your problem, you will have to select stations that transmit at a lower bandwidth that will send less continuous music data to you, thus allowing your computer to keep up with it.

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16th February 2004, 18:36	#2
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	What's the question? Buffering is basically a read ahead function for the tracks that, mainly, makes the playback run smoothly.

16th February 2004, 18:44	#3
carrieann Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2	well the question is when a song is playing, it keeps stopping and starts buffering again.. never plays the song with out interuption... is this supposed to happen???

16th February 2004, 19:55	#4
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Oh, I guess you are referring to playing (streaming) radio music. You probably are using a low speed, dial uo modem. If this is true, then the problem is that the amount of music streaming into your PC that gets buffered is not enough to keep up with a normal flow of the playing music, so it starts and stops. I don't use that feature much, so don't know a lot about it. But I do know that, if this is your problem, you will have to select stations that transmit at a lower bandwidth that will send less continuous music data to you, thus allowing your computer to keep up with it.