Had to give up on Musicbee

[metalhead68]

Generally loved the player, but the stuttering problem with an external usb drive, which no amount of buffer tinkering solved, proved insurmountable to me. Sad day.

[Steven]

there have been cases where buffering didnt help with a different issue (high disc activity) and switching the output from DirectSound to WASAPI in the player preferences fixes the issue, so you might try that

[metalhead68]

Will try that, but I've tried just about every player out there and this is the only one that I've ever had stutter.

[Steven]

you could also try disabling any vst, dsp or equaliser plugins you have enabled.
Also you might try whitelisting musicbee in any security software you are using - especially Avast which has the worst reputation for interferring with musicbee.

[metalhead68]

I'm thinking it was my bitdefender antivirus. It's been removed and so far so good.

[metalhead68]

Removing bitdefender didn't totally fix the problem. Moving my music to a non-usb connected drive did. Loving musicbee again!