Windows Media Player Randomly Pausing

This hiccuping occurs because your computer cannot read the files from your hard drive quickly enough. I would highly recommend defragging your hard drive regularly as this can speed up its access to files. You should also limit the number of background processes running while you re listening to music. Anything that is repeatedly accessing your hard drive can cause this skipping program. You can try to change Media Player s buffering options, but I ve found this has very little effect when listening to music that s on your hard drive. Still, follow these steps:

To change the buffer settings on WMP: Under the VIEW tab, click on OPTIONS. Under the options menu, select the ADVANCED tab, and click on the CHANGE button. At the top of the new window, you should see a section called buffer. Change the buffer setting from use default buffering to buffer, and change the number to a higher value e.g. 15 seconds.

What you really need to do, however, is ditch WMP as a player. Try WinAmp which will allow you to configure buffering and priority options appropriately and totally eliminates skipping even on computers older and slower than yours. My old laptop plays tunes perfectly in WinAmp but used to skip like crazy in WMP, which is why I stopped using it for music.

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