Windows media player messing up firefox??

[Hitperson]

this is an odd one.

often when browsing online i like to listen to some music so i run WMP wiredly though Firefox will often freeze, now in task manager i will be using no more than 40% of my ram so what is happening?? is it my realtek hardware having a spaz attack or somthing??

note this doesn't happen on all songs just a fair proportion, could it be linked to the bitrate (though i believe all my music is at the same rate)

this is quite a pain as somtimes it freezes my whole PC and i can't do anything till the track ends.

i wont use Itunes as it will convert all my files.

anyone able to advise??

[AfterDune]

Use WinAmp. Never crashes on me and is not using many resources .

[Hitperson]

but the stupid thing is that task manager is not show that lots of resources are being used my ram was at 40% and the CPU is below 10 so why would they be messing up...

could it be down to my hardware/drivers??

[VoXiNaTiOn]

Use WinAmp. Never crashes on me and is not using many resources .

This, it won't re-encode all your music, its worth a try to see if it stops the crashing.


Edit, if you're determined to make WMP work, the uninstall your Audio drivers, sweep them using Driver Sweeper, then re-install updated ones.

[Hitperson]

ok now for somthing really wired.

this issue only occours at my parents...

i'm back at uni and there are no problems what so ever and i'm on the asme machine.