Audio Disruption / Skipping When Multitasking

Hello. I occasionally DJ over the internet. I have been saving my bucks to buy a MacBook Pro and update the 3 year old technology from my Powerbook. I have noticed that when I am playing music locally on my new MBP, the audio occasionally "skips" when I change windows. My PB did not have this issue and I am upset that the newer faster computer is. It seems like it is having a hard time multitasking.
Also, when I run the program "Second Life" my entire system freezes up. I have found forums on the Second Life website talking about Apple having river issues with the graphics card, but that they have yet to address it. Apparently WoW has the same issue. This is SO frustrating. I feel like my PB was the super computer now.

I had FIOS TV installed yesterday and had this exact problem today. Called tech support and they suggested it was a splitter or loose connection and they set up a service appointment.
After the call I checked all connections and all was fine. Figuring that all the IP related content (i.e., multi-room dvr) passes through the router, I did a remote reboot and everything is now fine (no more skipping on HD content).

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Ipad background audio from video when multitasking

Hello.
This is a request if people can either feedback On their present experience or try this out themselves first and feedback.
I have an ipad 1. When ever i try to get background audio to play from video when multitasking in another app, eg safari, from any video app including plex, airvideo, vlc, and the original apple video app. All that occurs is that the icon changes to the ipod and a random song is played from my music library instead of the audio from the video i was watching. This does not matter if the video file is streamed or stored on the ipad itself.
There is one slight and occasional proviso to this, as at times if the video file is tagged in itunes as 'music' rather than 'movie' or 'tv show' etc then it does on occasions work, and on occasions youtube videos will play in the background. But most of the time these aspects also dont function int he background with the ipod icon instantly replacing which ever video app icon i tried to use in the background.
Now my sons iphone 4 manages to function correctly and always plays video in the background when multitasking.
I have asked this question before on this forum, with no response, so booked a visit to my local genius bar. Where they checked my ipad and agreed it wasnt working as ios should, then interestingly they attempted to do the same on an ipad 2 and it failed to work in exactly the same way. Their response was that this was obviously a fault of the ipad ios, possibly due to the ipad having a separate video app where as the iphone has video within its generic ipod app.
I did the usual by informing apple via of this bug through the feedback system, and requested that the genius bar do the same. But having thought about this, and failed to see any other users on this forum who are also puzzled at this lack of what i think is an important function, i wonder if this means that i am the only one who likes to listen to video when im browsing, so dont need it, or wether everyone elses ipads function as ios should do, and for some reason both my ipad, and the ipad 2 tested in the shop are at fault.
So can i request if others reading this can have a go to see if their ipad will play background audio from video when multitasking, or if the same problem occurs.
Thanks very much this is really appreciated.

Oops clicked the wrong button, I meant to click a 'helpful answer' as it hard to have a correct answer to such a question.
But thanks for the replies.
It looks like this is a bug in ios solely for the ipad, as it does work fine on the iphone although wonder which way the ipod touch will perform. interestingly it looks like i may also be in the minority of wishing to listen to video files as I browse:)
Which probably means apple may never get around to sorting it, as no one else uses the function.
Anyway thanks for the replies, if any one else wants to see the bug have a go and comment, i find it funny how I seem to be the only one to have found it to date.
R:)

Audio CDs skip when played on iPod

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[X121e] Audio glitch/stuttering when multitasking

Hello,
I am encountering some regular issues (glitches, stuttering) when playing some music and doing some operations in parallel (copy, browsing, etc.).
The discourageing things being:
- Latest driver/bios are installed,
- Occurs even when the laptop is powered by AC supply (i.e. maximum performance mode),
- The hard drive is SSD (no bottleneck here),
- 8 GB RAM (used at most @20%),
- CPU activity is quite quiet during these paralllel operations.
By looking for reference on this forum, it seems that no valuable solution were found here: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Lenovo-x121e-multitasking-performance-audio-st...
And here too: http://moinsound.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/the-nerdbook-part-2-first-impressions-of-the-thinkpad-x121... (look in the comments).
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Please update
BIOS upgraded to 1.11 or above (remember to reboot before & after flashing BIOS)
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Power Manager 3.48 or above
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Power Management driver 1.62 or above
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A2019 JB Intermittant audio skipping when screen off

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