music skips while playing in iTunes

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from Tips and Tricks - OSx86:

 

Improve iTunes skipping on SSE2 machines

 

For most of us, using the Rosetta'd version of iTunes gives us a lot of skipping. You can lessen the pain by turning off the "Sound Enhancer" and "Crossfade Playback" options in your preferences. You can also turn off the E.Q. for a bit more improvement. The effects of this trick are hit or miss. My desktop is now totally skip-free, but a few others I've tried this trick on didn't change at all. Take it for what it's worth and give it a shot. The best place to obtain the maxxuss patch is the Maxxuss Homepage.

 

Fortunately, Apple is now shipping iTunes 6.0.4 Universal, which solves the problem

 

okay, my processor is SSE2 and i installed 10.4.1 and i could play my music just fine. now i put 10.4.3 on my computer, and anything i play in iTunes skips. same goes for Quicktime. what gives? i turned off the sound enhancer, crossfade playback, equalizer, and installed iTunes 6.0.4. no difference.

 

is it just because the code for 10.4.3 is so SSE3 intensive?

 

any suggestions for a solution?

 

should i just go back to 10.4.1?

 

other than that, 10.4.3 seems to work just fine. i installed all of the applicable SSE3 patches, removed the AppleTPM and FPMem kexts, etc.