John,

Have you defrag'd your hard drive lately?

I had some 'stuttering' occurring during playback of my songs recently and a defrag cured it.

If playback requires that the disk has to work hard to gather all the bits of a file because it's spread across diverse locations, this can create the effect you are hearing.

Regards,
Noel


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