Long pause before song starts.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

Answer for Dale
Since I wrote about this problem I have been on the Dell web site and downloaded a driver update for my sound card (Sigma Tel Audio). I have been trying hard to get the same problem since then and it has only happened twice after a lot of tries. when doing my show is was happening about every third song. But to answer your questions just in case it starts again here are my answers
Time delay was between 7 & 10 seconds, I am in manual mode, my kma files are about 5000 on my C drive which is 55 GB with 11 GB free, and about 9000 on my external 149GB with 46 GB free, they are in the spec below. I am also using the old video player but it was happening in the new one as well.

The reason I am using the old player is I seem to get a lot of jitter with the new one on video. If I play some video's on the new player by the time the track reaches the end on the second display the preview screen is still showing about 10 seconds behind it.

I am thinking about trying to roll back to media player 9 to see if this cures that problem.

Thanks again for your responses.

Sounds like you have most of the problem cured. If it was me though I would move more of the KMA files to the external drive. The reason I say this is how full you internal drive is. The minimum free space on a C:\ drive should be no less than 25% which for this drive would be about 13.5GB. Ideally it should around 40 to 50% though. The operating system needs this space to be able to function at its fastest. Just a suggestion, but that could help with the rest of the delay.
A good defrag after you move some of them wouldn't hurt either drive though.