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Comment Re:how on earth? (Score 2, Informative) 748

This is probably close to the mark. Here are some new features for Vista:

The Multimedia Class Scheduler Service: basically a service that juggles thread priorities keeping "important" ones (read: audio playback) near the top:

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684247. aspx

The I/O system in Vista also has an idea of different priority packets. Therefore the disk read for the next MP3 frame is probably a higher priority than
the read for the next network packet.

    http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/priorityio.ms px

This is complete speculation on my part but I could see how these thing might affect machine performance during audio playback.

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