Random track hanging/freezing for a couple of seconds at a time

[ninjagaijin]

Not sure how to diagnose this but:

I haven't used WACUP in a while, but today when I started using the latest preview build, I'm getting random freezes every couple of minutes when playing my DJ mixes. The playback just hangs and then starts playing again a couple of seconds later.

I'm not having issues with playing the files with foobar.

It's off a HDD but there are no errors when checking the HDD health with various HDD checking software.

If I can do anything to help diagnose the cause please let me know.

[dro]

Is the HDD maybe spinning down since you mention it happening after a few minutes? As it could be the OS is buffering things to a point before it then runs out of data (though that could just be a rubbish idea) also what file type(s) are you seeing this happen with? As for the other software mentioned, I don't know if that does full file buffering or not which might be why it's behaving whereas I'm not & currently I don't have any accessible HDDs to try to hookup to see what might be going on if it ends up being a reproducible issue with timeouts, etc.