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I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with Vista Premium installed and 2 GB of
memory.
Playing a song stored in my music folder (in any format: MP3, WMA, etc.)
from within the player takes over 30 seconds to start playing after pressing
the "Play" button. The same thing happens when switching to the next or
previous song.
This is incredibly bothersome and ridiculous, specially because it is part
of Windows Vista, while with iTunes and other players the songs play
immediately; no waiting of any kind.
The thing that really bothers me is that in Vista I cannot fix the problem
by re-installing WMP the same way I could re-install it in Win XP. Microsoft
does not post individual components of Vista (IE, WMP, etc.) as it is done
for Win XP. Therefore, if one component gets messed up, you are doomed to
re-install the whole operating system to get it fixed.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem, or at least re-install WMP?
I'm really considering switching to Apple.
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What sound card do you have? If you update the sound card driver to the
latest version from the vendor, does that help?
I would seriously doubt that this is a player issue. As such reinstalling
would do nothing. If you absolutely feel you're right, bug me on that front
and I'll dig up a diagnostic tool I have in the works. Given all the data
so far from that tool, the "player needing a reinstall" is almost never the
source of actual failure. WMP just gets affected by the other things in the
system - such as random audio card drivers. =\
Anyways,
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#reinstallvista
covers most of the reinstall information already, minus the diagnostic
check.
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"Vital Miranda" <VitalMiranda[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] >I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with Vista Premium installed and 2 GB of
> memory.
>
> Playing a song stored in my music folder (in any format: MP3, WMA, etc.)
> from within the player takes over 30 seconds to start playing after
> pressing
> the "Play" button. The same thing happens when switching to the next or
> previous song.
>
> This is incredibly bothersome and ridiculous, specially because it is part
> of Windows Vista, while with iTunes and other players the songs play
> immediately; no waiting of any kind.
>
> The thing that really bothers me is that in Vista I cannot fix the problem
> by re-installing WMP the same way I could re-install it in Win XP.
> Microsoft
> does not post individual components of Vista (IE, WMP, etc.) as it is done
> for Win XP. Therefore, if one component gets messed up, you are doomed to
> re-install the whole operating system to get it fixed.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this problem, or at least re-install WMP?
>
> I'm really considering switching to Apple.
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I have exactly the same problem. Before, I had an Dell XPS with Windows XP,
bought it about 3 years ago and all was perfect. Then, a couple of months
ago, I got an XPS again, with bigger memory and Vista. Now Media Player takes
a good 30 seconds to start a song and also skips a lot. I just don't
understand and it's so annoying. ALL my music is stored there and I'm having
to transfer songs I want to play to itunes which is a pain and not as well
organised. I want my old Media Player back! Please help!
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What sound card do you have? If you update the sound card driver to the
latest version from the vendor, does that help?
I believe a number of Dells shipped with a particularly bad sound card
driver that you would really want to update.
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Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Cnstnc680" <Cnstnc680[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ADBB426E-C9B9-444D-B101-7F7951B7A168[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] >I have exactly the same problem. Before, I had an Dell XPS with Windows XP,
> bought it about 3 years ago and all was perfect. Then, a couple of months
> ago, I got an XPS again, with bigger memory and Vista. Now Media Player
> takes
> a good 30 seconds to start a song and also skips a lot. I just don't
> understand and it's so annoying. ALL my music is stored there and I'm
> having
> to transfer songs I want to play to itunes which is a pain and not as well
> organised. I want my old Media Player back! Please help!
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I had exactly the same problem and this person told me to go to this link
and follow the instructions and now it's perfect. Songs start straight away!
Good luck!
"Skipping of tracks on Dell machines is common if they have the
Sigmatel audio chipset (sound card) installed, because Dell ship them
with defective audio driver software.
Generally, you'd need to go to the Speaker configuration in windows as
per Zachd's answer in this discussion, to disable audio enhancements :
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-music-video/737568.htm
HTH
Cheers - Neil"
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