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This might seem obvious, and I don't know if it's been mentioned yet..
For those who have drop-outs, and your runing a system with multiple hard drives, or like me a App/OS SSD and standard HDD for music..
Make sure windows is not putting your music hard drive to "sleep" it will do this after about 45 minutes and cause a drop out as the disk powers back on and spins up. Especially if your music is on multiple hard drives, and you switch between them, like one playlist is on hardrive a and another playlist has musci on hardrive B, and now "b" is asleep from inactivity. Or this can even happen if you use Memory buffer in foobar and load up a massive .ape file that's an entire album in one file, foobar loads it into memory and then hard drive shuts down 30 minutes later from inactivity.
Edited by MikeW - 1/14/12 at 1:22pm