Performance

Do songs ever stutter? Try these tips:

• When playing Video files (ie: not "Audio+G" files)
  • set the resolution of the Video monitor to 720p (if you don't know what that means, ASK ME, as this is critical)
  • if the video is not encoded as h.264 (mpeg 4) then re-encode it to that
  • if the video file is 1080p, then re-encode it to 720p and try a reduced frame rate, eg 24fps
  • use Handbrake to re-encode

• turn off "High Quality CDG Video Upscale" (general prefs)
• increase the "Audio buffer size" to 9 or 10 (windows only)
• set the "Half Ring Buffer size" to 5 megs or higher
• turn off "Pre-ache next song"
• turn ON "delay playing until song is unpacked"
• turn off the Server
• reduce the number of songs
• ensure you have 8 GB of RAM
• ensure you have a recent computer
• ensure antivirus background scan is turned OFF
• ensure there is no backup going on
• ensure "whole disk encryption" is turned OFF
• ensure there is no bloatware running
• ensure there are no expensive background activities going on
• use a Mac (windows has worse performance for multi-threaded apps)