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Not necessarily a conflict, it could be just the CPU is being overworked, post specs of your computer... use a CPU monitor to see if your CPU activity spikes when playing MP3s and searching at the same time. If it jumps to 90% or higher, it is likely that the two tasks together are just to much for your processor to handle. You can try turning off the visual effects in Windows Media Player, this may help bring the CPU workload down a little.

See what else you have running in the background, anti-virus programs eat up alot of CPU power, if you don't need it, turn it off. As Swany said turn off SRS-WOW effects (which uses CPU to process these effects) this will also lower the CPU work.

As I understand it, MTU has designed Hoster to have priority over many other programs, part of the reason Hoster is so reliable. So searching in Hoster may eat up more CPU time than you have available, and because Hoster's threads have a higher priority, it holds on to your CPU time until it's done before handing it back over to your MP3 player. During this small fraction-of-a-second time period, your MP3 player may stutter or drop audio.

The reason some MP3 players may work while other don't is that some players are just more CPU intensive than others. YMMV.

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