Computer Help and Support

The input for doing the headphone jack is part of the "VGA" input on the TV. You know, three HDMI inputs, one coax, two AV in (yellow/white/red), two component in (those are the RGB, I think), 2 S-video and one VGA/3.5mm jack.

I know I didn't double the system RAM, but I moved the audio and video processing to the video card, which has a lot more horsepower than the built-in card. It was a mild office PC; the motherboard maxes out at 4 gig of RAM so I can't do anything more with that. The SSD helps a lot with making it run faster than it did originally, and of course the video card dramatically increased the graphics capability.

I listen to the streaming when I'm using Firefox. Basically, websurfing. I sometimes use it for iTunes or other downloading software, but not that often, and I shut them down completely when I'm done with them. I do have BOINC (for SETI@home) but it is set to not be active when somebody is using the computer. Plus I have the usual anti-virus protection.

I get the problem whether I use Chrome or Firefox, but not all the time, and not immediately. Stopping and restarting the stream does not help.

Hmmm... answering your question made me look at Carbonite, which run continuously. I was trying to stream the music while I answered this, but it began to degrade. So I changed a setting on Carbonite so it doesn't run in the afternoon (when most of the use is) and restarted the stream. Now it sounds good.

I wonder if that was it!