Background music player

[gotrich]

I have an issue where randomly a song will pop and then just hiss. Hoster locks up and wont stop even if I close Hoster. The only way to stop it is to CTL ALT DEL and stop the hoster process.

Anyone else having this?

[gotrich]

anyone had this problem? how do i fix it?

[Roy Dennis]

It seems like no one else has had this problem.
Just a few suggestions, from your heading I take it that it is just the background audio that this applies to.
Are they in a zip format ? if so try extracting them and play from that format.
You have probably tried this anyway but have you tried loading a different folder to play from ?
If you double click one of these song files without Hoster running, what program do they start in ?
If it is some program other than windows media player do they play alright in that program ?
If they play alright in the default program, try changing the default program to Windows media player as that is what Hoster uses, perhaps there is a conflict somewhere.
The only other thing I can think of is something else running in the background, try running with your ante virus turned off see if that makes a difference.
One other thing, how much memory have you got installed ?

Roy.

[gotrich]

They are not in zips its mp3s
they play ok in winamp.
its random when it happens.

The hoster will loce the sound card and the only way to stop is to restart or ctl+alt+del and go to the process and stop it then when I open Hoster its ok.

I cant figure out casue its so random.

Dell 1525 2.0 D core 3G ram and 350 HD

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by gotrich

They are not in zips its mp3s
they play ok in winamp.
its random when it happens.

The hoster will loce the sound card and the only way to stop is to restart or ctl+alt+del and go to the process and stop it then when I open Hoster its ok.

I cant figure out casue its so random.

Dell 1525 2.0 D core 3G ram and 350 HD

Are you also using the visualizations with the background audio? If so how much Video ram do you have?
Try watching the Hoster process in Task Manager and see if the amount of memory and processor time it is using is jump way up. It should stay between 10 and 15% on the percentage of usage.
Are you running Vista, Windows7, or XP?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by gotrich

They are not in zips its mp3s
they play ok in winamp.
its random when it happens.

Do they play OK in Windows Media Player as that is the program Hoster uses to play the files.

Roy.

[gotrich]

I am not using visualizations.

I am using windows xp and I have all the updates.

I will try windows media player and see but it does it on all 3 dell laptops

as far as video speed.. no idea standa dell inspiron 1525 laptop.