MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems

quirdan writes "With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft's attention, and they have responded to the issue. Microsoft states that 'some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not'; and that they are working on technical documentation, as well as applying a slight sugar coating to the symptoms. Apparently they believe an almost 90% drop in networking performance is 'slight,' only affects reception of data, and that this performance trade-off is necessary to simply play an MP3."

Comments

Re:From the horse's mouth

[Anonymous Coward]

"For example, when audio recording, you don't want to use Microsoft's typical sound system - you want to record using ASIO which goes through less buffering and latency. If you record using the regular sound system, you end up with perhaps 100s of ms of lag, which is a bitch when you're trying to record to a metronome."

The problems with ASIO are that:
it's not a Microsoft Propriatory standard.
it's cross platform.
it works on XP and Vista, so no forced upgrade.
it's mature and stable with good support.

Microsoft are trying to fix these four problems with the new Vista sound system. Support from audio software companies has been lukewarm due to the incompleteness of the spec for pro audio, and the fact ASIO works fine. Apart from Cakewalk, who have no choice but to love any Microsoft idea.

Re:From the horse's mouth

[rangek]

One of the first truly funny posts I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.

Re:M$ expected behaviour!

[RobertM1968]

Hi Richard...

I still use Z! (or CWMM) on eCS & Warp to play my MP3's... it is wonderful, and if Dink did his job on the Win version well enough, just as nice on Windows...

For those of you wanting a very quick, very small MP3 player (with stream support, OGG plugin support and more) check on Z! (http://dink.org/z/) - it s a great app. It doesnt come with a fancy GUI (though that should be easily writable even under Windows, as there are TONS of extensions and GUIs floating around for Warp for Z) though it does come with a great, easy to use text based, mouse enabled GUI, is tiny, fast and works amazingly well.

-Robert