Wanted to svare my experience with LMS and win 8.1. Don't know why I hadn't thought of it before but why not run Windows in safe mode to reduce number of processes running.
So I restarted Windows in (safe mode + networking) and ran LMS in safe mode also and voila the number of processes running went from 70 to 25. The sound improved quite a lot I think. So try it out and see if it works for you.
Acer laptop i7 quad core, win 8.1, 1 TB WD hdd usb 3.0, LMS 7.8, firmware 7.8, Squeezebox Touch, S/Pdif to Hegel HD11, wavfiles straight to Touch.
So I restarted Windows in (safe mode + networking) and ran LMS in safe mode also and voila the number of processes running went from 70 to 25. The sound improved quite a lot I think. So try it out and see if it works for you.
Acer laptop i7 quad core, win 8.1, 1 TB WD hdd usb 3.0, LMS 7.8, firmware 7.8, Squeezebox Touch, S/Pdif to Hegel HD11, wavfiles straight to Touch.