There may be various causes, and some may be difficult to get around (e.g. some video drivers conflict with audio output in some circumstances, as do some modem operations, and these problems may be hard to fix, other than by updating your device drivers). Here are a few suggestions... Turn off stuff in Winamp that's unnecessary, such as the scrolling title display and the graphic frequency analyser. (Right click on the corresponding part of the Winamp window to control these options..

Winamp will skip at times on the best of machines, especially when a dialup network connection is established, for example. But if skipping occurs more frequently, the problem is probably caused by one of two things: a) Your PC is too weak to really handle playing MP3 whilst doing other things - that is the CPU is too slow, there is not enough memory, and / or the disk I/O is too slow..

Press Ctl-P to get Preferences, then select Output in the left hand window, then select Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in in the left window... then press the Configure button to choose which directory you want your WAV files saving in. After you do this, every time you "play" a file in Winamp, it will actually be output to a WAV file in your chosen directory.

Just click on the "+file" button and hold down your mouse button - you'll see that two other buttons appear above it labelled "+dir" and "+url". Slide the mouse cursor up to the "+dir" button whilst holding down the mouse button and then release the mouse button. A selector window will come up - navigate through it until you find the directory with all your MP3 files in it.

To make DivX stop trying to decode things like XviD uncheck "Support Generic Mpeg4" in the decoder configuration's "Quality settings" tab. This will allow you to use other decoders. Making DivX stop decoding DivX in the latest version requires that you completely unregister it. Run regsvr32 /u divxdec.ax

Not yet. However, you can play picture slideshow while playing back audio only files. There is also a FlickrShow function that you can use to display pictures related to the artist on Flickr. A random slideshow is generated from Flickr search results using artist's name as the search keyword.

Convert your MP3 files to WAV files first. This is easy to do - almost all MP3 players can do it.. e.g. with Winamp, press Ctl-P to get Preferences, then select Output in the left hand window, then select Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in in the left window... then press the Configure button to choose which directory you want your WAV files saving in. After you do this, every time you "play" a file in Winamp, it will actually be output to a WAV file in your chosen directory.

The MG-25 has problems with certain video files that results in the movie 'jerking' every couple of seconds. For some movies the level of jerking may be watchable (it appears like the movie is running slightly slower than it should), for others it is unacceptable. Exactly why the jerking occurs is not known, but it is likely caused by how the video is encoded. If you have a movie that jerks then your only option is to re-encode it and chose different video and audio settings.

Before CDex 1.10 you can only encode WAV files, but not the other way around. There are several tools available which can do this job. Take a look at www.mp3.com and look for utilities like WinAmp or MaPlay.

Change the output preferences to Wave File (silent). In the newer versions of WinAMP, the output preferences is actually under the "Input" tab. Click Options|Preferences|Input Tab, select one of Nullsoft's Plug-In decoders, click on "Configure", then the "Output" tab, and change the output Device to ".WAV File (Silent)" (this specific info refers to version 1.92)

Yes it will. You will probably need to change some options to get it to play well. For example, go to the mainmenu / Visualization / Visualization Mode and select "Off" - this will turn off the scope / analyzer display in the Winamp window, which will save some CPU. Perhaps more importantly go to Options / Preferences and select Input in the left window and then select Nullsoft MPEG audio decoder in the right window and press the Configure button.

A - No. What's Playing uses APIs specific to Winamp 3 and hence it will not work with Winamp 2. I do not plan to support Winamp 2 since there are good plugin already available to do similar work for Winamp 2.

Well... I do play my MP3 files through my stereo systems, both in my office and in the living room. But what I'm doing is not really "hi-fi". Well... it probably sounds better than what was considered "hi-fi" in my youth, but it wouldn't come anywhere near to meeting current "audiophile" standards, which is what I get the impression you are aiming for. We had a lengthy discussion about this in this group just recently.

Unregister the iviaudio.ax filter. Once unregistered, this prevents ShowShifter automatically picking up the filter when you use the Jukebox module.

Yes, the Hi-MD format allows you to use your Hi-MD recorder as 1GB external USB drive. Prior to Hi-MD, [std-MD] audio MDs were not capable of holding computer data. A now-obsolete branch of std-Minidisc, called MD Data, was capable of holding 140MB of data per disc (functioning much like a Zip or floppy disk, but using Minidisc technology). MD Data discs were not compatible with std-MD audio discs. You can read about the old MD Data units in the Equipment Browser.

Not directly. But QuickTime 4 makes it possible to convert mp3 files into files that can be used as soundtracks by Videodelic (in the Montage Room). The reason is simple. While mp3 files take up very little hard disk space, they are CPU-intensive to decode. Therefore they are not suitable for using directly with Videodelic. You can use the QuickTime player (and many freeware utilities) to convert mp3 files into AIFF files. Videodelic uses 16-bit, 44.

MP3 files are forms of electronic music that you can store on your computer, or a portable music player. They are created in a way that allows near-CD quality sound but also has a compressed file size so that it can be downloaded from the Internet and used with memory based audio players and portable media players. MP3s are playable on all devices including iPods. They do not have Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.

If your playlist isn't already displayed, click the "PL" button to display it. Then on the Playlist window either click the +FILE button and add the files one at a time or click the +DIR button (click +FILE and then slide up) to add a whole directory (and optionally its subdirectories) at a time. To start a new list, click the Load List button, and slide up to New List.