I meant that Winamp plays at background, and I try to play the too short wave files with another program while winamp runs at background.
My sound card is on board C-Media. On Win98, there is no problem. But on WinXP it has a problem playing too short .wav files. It does not play them or play a part of them.
But when using sound card with another application at background (for ex: winamp), these short wave files are being played perfect. What can be the reason of this? Thanks for any replies.

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