It's working fine for me.

It's been confirmed by several people (including myself) that 10.5.6 fixes slow loading with FAT32 drives. Of course, I've only tested with audio, I don't do video, but I can't imagine it being any different.

The 10.5.6 update seems to have resolved the FAT32 lag problem :)

no lag here!

confirmed! It works with no lag on loading videos with the 10.5.6 update.

I am using and encrypted fat32 external firewire 800 drive for all my videos

All Good ! Thanks for the feedback guys. I installed 10.5.6

Ran fine all night. Normal operation. Loads songs instanly.

1 problem still remains.

The first video I play or even the first song will sometimes start out with noticable clicking in the audio, like buffer underruns. It never stops completely but it may do this off and on for the first minute and a half, then goes away and doesn't behave in the same way again. ONLY when I first get going.

If I get to the gig late, I dont usually have time to run a few songs through to avoid playing the first track with dropouts occuring. Anyone else experience this? Realy strange but always goes away.

Personally I don't that that issue that you are talking about.

Ever since I upgraded to 10.5.6 I have no problem what so ever, even when I play videos.

This is the first time of heard of this problem. Do you have a different external hard drive you can use for testing? Curious to know if the same problem occurs using another HD.

This has happened with two different drives I've used, before and after upgrading to 10.5.6

It only happens when I first get going. Really strange. Used a firewire 800 terabyte, now I use a ESATA external running on an express bus card.

It goes away always within the first song, but is still annoying and can make you look bad if you haven't run a couple songs through first. When it goes away u can tell the system is just solid from that point on.

Minor issue but one that has been happening for some time. no other problems.

Very strange stuff. If possible, test your drives using a friends computer and see if the same problem occurs. Also, test a friends drive with your computer and see how it works.

This does not occur on my backup macbook 13 incher with the same drive. Only on my MBP.

Anyone else experience this problem ?

As someone who has to jump on and play right from loading up Serato sometimes, I would like this fixed in a future release if we can find more people with this same problem. This occurs with videos or mp3 and always goes away if left to play for about a minute. Still very annoying when it happens. Maybe I have spotlight still running? Pretty sure I nixed that but maybe its still active, and an indexing of a drive is taking place. I'm pretty happy with my performance after it goes away.

Feedback appreciated
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where can I down load the updates??

Where can I get the download from??

Scratch LIVE software updates or are you talking about Mac OSX updates?

mac os updates

Do this:

Close SSL and all other applications

Click on the apple located in the top left of your screen.

Click on the Software Update... option

Thanks for all the help!!

no problem :)