MP3's playing slooooooowwwww ??????

[Moonpie2]

This is a weird one I've never encountered before so I thought I'd open it up to you lovely tech savvy people

Over the last 3 or 4 days when I'm playing MP3's on my WIN7 ultimate PC through Windows media player, occasionally the songs will get stuck.

Like you know that bit in the middle of Fat Boy Slim's Funk Soul Brother where the whole song slows down. Well exactly like that. But it can last a couple of minutes, or just completely make my PC die.
Happens while watching movies occasionally too.

Has anyone seen or heard of anything like this.
I tried uninstalling anything relatively new (nothing dodgy) and that hasn't helped. And now with all the uninstalling I've done, all my restore points are useless and will only take me back in time like a day at the most !!

 

[citizenx13]

I would vote drivers or codecs

my first move if not done so is to un-install the audio drivers, reboot and re-install.
same with the video if that doe s not help
Codecs can be un-installed too, i always re-boot after uninstalling (habit i think)

hope this helps

 

[Moonpie2]

Hmmm..... haven't done anything weird with any codecs or drivers recently, but I'll give it a whirl when I get home

Any other suggestions from anyone just in case this doesn't work ?

 

[Simian]

Try the same files in other Media Players, like VLC or MPC-HC even Winamp, and see if the same happens!..

If it does there might be summut wrong with either the files themselves or as citizenx13 said codecs/drivers... could also be you hard Drive having a flid!!

 

[Calabi]

Could be something else running at the same time.

I had that before once. Some other program was overloading the cpu and causing the music to slow down.

 

[Moonpie2]

Pretty sure the files are ok.
And I'm reasonably certain nothing's slowing the computer down.... although it might be worth doing a spyware, spambot, virus type scan of the system to be sure.

Could run a disk doctor type program on the HDD too as a double check.

As for right now, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the audio drivers.
Fingers crossed and all that

 

[Calabi]

Check the running processes when its playing.

 

[Moonpie2]

NOOOOOOO !!!

It was so good for ages, then it happened like twice in half an hour.

Is this going to tell me anything useful ?

Those 2 Event ID 41s line up exactly with what happened, but then again, I suspect they're just from when I pressed my PCs reset button.

Two of the 3 Event ID 3s also match the 'breakings'