iTunes and Kazaa Irony?

[eclipse525]

Here's something funny.....

I just installed "iTunes" for Windows and so far it worked great. That was till I had "iTunes" and "Kazaa Lite ++" both going at the same time. Seems that when Kazza is doing it's thing, it seems to interfere with iTunes. Distorting the sound of the song playing. I wonder why? Anybody have any idea's as to why?



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[mrjamin]

Originally posted by eclipse525
Here's something funny.....

I just installed "iTunes" for Windows and so far it worked great. That was till I had "iTunes" and "Kazaa Lite ++" both going at the same time. Seems that when Kazza is doing it's thing, it seems to interfere with iTunes. Distorting the sound of the song playing. I wonder why? Anybody have any idea's as to why?

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i have both going right now and i aint hearing no distortion. Sounds like you could have a hardware thing causing it. It happens, besides, its windows.

[eclipse525]

Do you think that it has anything to do with my iTunes Library folder being the same as my Kazaa shared folder?


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[saabmp3]

I think it probably has something to do with your network cable being crossed with your sound cable. I had this problem a long time ago, took me forever to figure out what was wrong.

BEN

[eclipse525]

Originally posted by saabmp3
I think it probably has something to do with your network cable being crossed with your sound cable. I had this problem a long time ago, took me forever to figure out what was wrong.

BEN

Crossed in what way? Aren't they two separate cards? How did you solve it? Thanks for the help!


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[szark]

Originally posted by eclipse525
Crossed in what way? Aren't they two separate cards? How did you solve it? Thanks for the help!


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I think he means that the speaker cable coming out of your computer is wrapped around the network cable coming out of your computer, and there may be crosstalk between the cables.

[eclipse525]

So it's nothing INTERNAL but rather the actual cables interfering with each other. Hmmmm......Strange.....never had that happen.


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[solvs]

Don't know if you're having the same problem as I am, but I know both programs are memory and processing hogs. I have an AMD 1.3MHz, 512 MB RAM, on-board sound (going to put a sound card in there... eventually), and a crappy video card in my El Cheapo. Sometimes it sputters and gets really slow when I have both running. Kazaa Lite will sometimes shoot up to 90+% in the Task Manager and slows iTunes (and WinAmp, and WMP, and QT) to a crawl. If you're getting distortion, try the sound card/cable/speakers. You may have something loose. Or you can try fiddling with the sound in iTunes. But you may just need more RAM.