everytime i download a song, then play it back, i get blank spots and a hesitations. ill download another somg and everytime at least once during song i have this problem. whats going on. thanks for any help.

This happened when using Gnotella? Hmmm... interesting. it has never happened to me with Gnotella, with none of all the versions I've used, but it did happen to me when downloading mp3s with Go!Zilla.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

What are you using to play back the songs? WinAmp?

Does this happen with any other MP3s or just with ones downloaded with Gnotella?

Is there anything else on your computer that is hogging CPU time?

Are you downloading most of your songs from the same server? Sadly, some people don't know squat about encoding MP3's. They either encode at too low a volume, too high a volume or they think they can run Unreal Tournament, scan a document, fax and crunch a spreadsheet AND encode a MP3 all at the same time. If the CPU gets overloaded by other things, the quality of the MP3 will suffer because the encoder is constantly being interrupted by all the other competing tasks. I always treat encoding the same way as CD-burning, shut down other programs first and JUST do encoding!