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Music player process

I read a book that says that a processor with one core and without a hyperthread can only process one process at a time, so there is a doubt that when we do so many operations on a PC, as well as some background processes, there are always why does not the music player stop between them for a short time. I know that the processor is pretty fast, but the music player usually plays music in continuous mode without any slight interruption (which can be observed). Can anyone clarify this behavior?

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1) A single-core processor without hyperthreading can, as you say, run only one process at a time. Several processes are processed using context switching, that is, the processor will start one process, and then switch to the next process, and then to the next, and then return to the first process and so on. The frequency of how often a particular process is planned depends on many different factors, where the priority of the process is one. (In those days when you often had to run WinAmp with a higher priority to avoid crashes, etc. This is currently not required, since the processor is much faster).

2) So, bearing in mind how all this sounds great and without glitches?

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