Optimizing windows for less background traffic seems to be the "thing" to do by many digital audio tweakers. I have never been a fan of such optimizations because they disable so much stuff that make Windows hard to use. And at any rate, you are then beholding by someone's tweaks to Windows.
There may be a lot better solution now in the form of "Game Mode" in Windows 10 update (Creator's Update). You start your game, then hit Windows key + G to bring up the settings and select Use Game Mode for this game. This causes Windows to reduce priority for background tasks and allocate more resources to the current app which in this case is a game. The same should work just fine for your favorite media player. I will test this in the future but for now, it may be a good thing to do to keep streaming of audio (e.g. Tidal) and video (Netflix and such) run more consistently.
See this article on it: http://pcworld.com/article/3187171/...akes-unplayable-games-playable-sometimes.html
Here is the effect it has on games when there is background activity:
It is nice to see this kind of intelligence in Windows now. It doesn't take much and allows one to better optimize a single app performance of a system.
There may be a lot better solution now in the form of "Game Mode" in Windows 10 update (Creator's Update). You start your game, then hit Windows key + G to bring up the settings and select Use Game Mode for this game. This causes Windows to reduce priority for background tasks and allocate more resources to the current app which in this case is a game. The same should work just fine for your favorite media player. I will test this in the future but for now, it may be a good thing to do to keep streaming of audio (e.g. Tidal) and video (Netflix and such) run more consistently.
See this article on it: http://pcworld.com/article/3187171/...akes-unplayable-games-playable-sometimes.html
Here is the effect it has on games when there is background activity:
It is nice to see this kind of intelligence in Windows now. It doesn't take much and allows one to better optimize a single app performance of a system.