iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive

2015-02-22 Thread Kevin Callahan
I’m hoping someone has some suggestions. A friend of mine, a professor at a major university, unfortunately is relegated to using a Dell laptop with 3 GB of RAM running Windows 7 Enterprise 2009 Service Pack 1. 32-bit. Due to storage constraints, he has been running his iTunes library off an

Re: iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive

2015-02-22 Thread Macs R We
Does he have one of those external drives that is by default set up to encrypt everything? That could have bearing on it. On Feb 22, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Okay - this doesn’t appear to be an iTunes problem. He just tested running files off the external drive

Re: iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive

2015-02-22 Thread Kevin Callahan
Okay - this doesn’t appear to be an iTunes problem. He just tested running files off the external drive using VLC player and it too paused for 30 seconds. K On Feb 22, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: I’m hoping someone has some suggestions. A friend of mine, a

Re: iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive

2015-02-22 Thread @lbutlr
On 22 Feb 2015, at 14:35 , Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Playback of both music and video will often pause for 30 - 90 seconds, then resume from where it was paused. It can happen several times in one file. It is random, but happens enough that it’s impossible to listen to music or

Re: iTunes pausing content when playing back from external drive

2015-02-22 Thread Kevin Callahan
Sent from my iPhone 5S On Feb 22, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Does he have one of those external drives that is by default set up to encrypt everything? That could have bearing on it. After testing with other players and testing the USB ports and cables, it