Hey.

Amarok cuts and shakes the played music every time I do even the simplest write or read to disk. Is there a way to make Amarok's and especially Xine buffer bigger ? I have a lot of free ram, and I wonder why it works such badly ? It is difficult to work normally and listen to music at the same time... Xmms is far better in buffering currently played music.

Well, you did'nt post your computer specs.

I suspect you either have something running in the background using up resources or you have a small or inadequate processor. If you have amarok visualizations, that uses up allot of resources, so does amarok as it is a resource hungry app.
I seen this happen with Windows Media Player on a computer with a P4 2.6Gz processor when the monitor was plugged into a cheaper nvidia graphics card with no memory of it's own, when I plugged the monitor in a better nvidia card that had 128mb of it's own memory it would not happen. The music did'nt skip like yours but the graphics lagged severely when I would move windows around on the desktop, suggesting the processor is near maxed out, but when I minimized the Media player into the panel (not showing the visualizations), again, that would help. The visualizations use allot of resources.

Interesting but processor isn't maxed out... heh... Maybe Amarok is just too big But despite that it's the best music player I ever used.