New SD card, WMP skips!

[Big Tone]

I just got a 2GB SanDisk Unltra II memoruy card to use with my i830w. I have been getting random skipping every couple minutes. My previous SD was a 1GB SanDisk and I didn't have those issues with it. Is it the extra memory that's causing the problem? Are there any adjustments I need to make? Please let me know. Thanks!

[signal34]

I think this is the registry key to look at:

HKLM\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_C lass
*BlockTransferSize - 64 (Dword)
(Specifies the maximum amount of blocks to send per bus transfer.)

*If you experience skipping audio try 32 or 16.

[Big Tone]

I'll give that a shot. Thanks!

[Big Tone]

Still having the same issue. I tried 32 and 16. I now have the 4GB high speed Transcend card. Any other ideas?

[JackSchitt28]

Originally Posted by Big Tone

Still having the same issue. I tried 32 and 16. I now have the 4GB high speed Transcend card. Any other ideas?

lol you keep upgrading, go with an 8gb now. j/k do you have other programs running in the background? programs taking up alot of free space? this might cause it.

[schettj]

What player are you using? If you can switch players, try Mortplayer, which does a good job of buffering - no skips

[Big Tone]

Originally Posted by JackSchitt28

lol you keep upgrading, go with an 8gb now. j/k do you have other programs running in the background? programs taking up alot of free space? this might cause it.

Yeah, I keep "upgrading", but continue to have issues! I bought the 2 gig card before I knew the i830w could handle 4 gigs. I paid practically the same amount for them both!

To answer your question, no, I'm not running anything in the background except for ActiveSync for push e-mail. I thought it may have been a RAM issue, too, but it's not. None of this happened with my 1 gig SanDisk!

[Big Tone]

Originally Posted by schettj

What player are you using? If you can switch players, try Mortplayer, which does a good job of buffering - no skips

I'm using WMP. Where can I find Mortplayer?

[chrisk]

I had similar problems... I tried various things. I believe what finally worked was formating the card using XP with these settings
quick format
fat
default block size (?)

Put the card in and reboot no more skipping

[Big Tone]

Ok. I'll try that next. Thanks!