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Audio Skipping With Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox
Heya, folks--I've got a weird little issue here that's been bugging me for a while now, and I just cannot figure out what's going on! Maybe y'all can help me here....
First of all, I'm running Windows 7 x64 on an HP Pavillion (hardware details available in my profile).
When I'm listening to music (mp3s, FLAC, CD, anything) using either MediaMonkey or J. River Media Center 14 and surfing the web using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (any version), my sound output skips whenever either browser is rendering a page.
I have a SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum sound card and an Edirol /Cakewalk UA-25EX USB audio interface: the skipping happens regardless of which I use. The two devices are not both installed at the same time: I removed the SoundBlaster card and drivers before installing the Edirol. All sound drivers are up-to-date.
Also, all video/motherboard/hardware drivers in general are completely up-to-date as well, as are all Windows updates.
I do not experience ANY audio skipping problems in ANY other software. My computer is stuffed full of audio software for studio production, and I haven't noticed any problems whatsoever in other apps--just the mp3 players, and only when either Chrome or Firefox is rendering.
I've checked my system resources to make sure neither browser is spiking my CPU, which could cause audio drop-outs, and that's not happening: whenever a browser is rendering, the CPU barely takes a hit. I've used every possible sound output option in both MediaMonkey and J. River Media Center--MS waveOut, Direct X, ASIO--and it doesn't matter which output method I'm using: they all skip whenever a browser is rendering a page.
Just to reiterate, I've updated ALL of my hardware drivers to the latest available as of 2/28/2010. All audio and browser apps are updated to the latest stable versions as well. The audio-sputtering issue ONLY happens with a media player, and only when Chrome or Firefox is rendering a page. I haven't noticed any audio drop-outs when working in IE8 or Opera, but I only keep them around for site testing.
Any ideas, folks? I've prettymuch exhausted the limits of my knowledge here, so....
D. Pegritz