Many people like to listen to MP3 music from their hard drive while they work, but sometimes people have problems with the sound skipping. This is actually a fairly common problem, and is almost always the result of a traffic jam on your PCI bus. Your sound card is most likely connected to your motherboard via the PCI bus. Data flows across that bus, when when too much data is trying to cross, you get the digitial equivalent of a traffic jam – hence your music skips. The first thing you need to do is update the driver for your motherboard’s chipset. In most cases, this does the trick. You might also want to try a different MP3 player. There are many of them out there: WinAmp, MusicMatch, Windows Media Player just to name a few.

Happy listening!