previewing songs causes main player to skip

[Paul Loschak]

I've had some problems with music skipping with little blips in the middle of a song during dances. With further exploration at home, I realized this happens roughly 50% of the time that I preview a song.
I set up my USB headphones adapter using the Preview Device plugin so that my USB-connected headphones could listen to the Previewer. I played a MP3 song to the main player. When I click the Preview button to preview another song it causes the main player to skip. This happens roughly half the time.
It's more likely to skip if I'm previewing a different song that I haven't listened to within the last few minutes. If I preview the same song that's already being previewed, then the main player frequently does not skip (but sometimes it does).
For some songs in my main player it seems that the previewer is more likely to cause skipping.

I have not noticed any problems with the previewer skipping.

There are also other incidents in which exaile skips during a song. Sometimes when I'm using a web browser or clicking around folders. I'm not sure what the cause is in these cases.

I tried to free up system resources but it didn't help. I disabled my wireless internet adapter, turned off my antivirus protection, closed all web browsers, checked the Task Manager to close anything else I didn't need, and I still had issues with skipping.

In another reported bug I noticed someone mentioned problems with memory and cover art. So I tried disabling cover art (even though that fix was committed a while ago), but I still had problems with skipping.

My collection contained 17,000 songs. I removed my collection and restarted the program. The main player still had problems skipping when I previewed songs.

My playlist was roughly 2000 songs. I closed that playlist and opened up a much shorter playlist of 19 songs. The main player still had problems skipping when I previewed songs.

So at this point I'm going to start trying Windows' disk cleanup tools. If you want me to test other scenarios then I'm happy to do so. I tried everything else I could think of given my limited knowledge of memory and potential problems with system resources.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit
Pentium P6100 @ 2.00 GHz
3GB RAM

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Try disabling the equalizer, and see if that fixes it. I haven't had this happen on my machines, but I'm not sure if it's related to processing power or not.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

I'd love to get this fixed, but I just can't duplicate it. Pushing this off to a future release until this can be duplicated.