Anyone Use Itunes While Trading?

[forrestang 10]

I use Itunes while I trade for music. I like the hundreds of radio stations listed there for streaming and gives a nice selection. I also think the visualizer is calming...but not when it screws up the music.

 

When this is running though, if you hit Ctrl-T and bring up the new visualizer it seriously kills resources and actually noticeably slows up the music. And my PC is not a power house, but it's not a punk either.

 

Does anyone have this problem or is there just some software setting conflict with my machine?

 

Forrest

[forrestang 10]

Well, it's the damnest thing.

 

I'm out of town so using my laptop. Which has a gig less memory, and a processor that's almost 1GHZ slower, and it runs the visualizer just fine.

 

So, wtf?

[diablo272 10]

Try downloading the newest version of your video card's drivers, that's about the only thing I can think of right now. Also check and see if that's a common problem by paying a visit to some itunes forums (I'm sure they exist).

 

On topic, I use foobar to listen to music while I trade. It's nothing fancy, but I really like it.

[jonbig04 10]

I use itunes (but i've never tried the visualizer), pandora, and mainly the iheartradio site/app so I can stream radio stations. Denver has a good one, so does DC.

[rcossey73 10]

I had problems with itunes crashing during the day so I bought some portable speakers for my ipod touch and use it now. I never used the visualizer though.