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Audio dropouts on Raspberry Pi 3
beard:
Thank you all for the suggestions. The comment about thumbnailing gave me some hope, as it makes sense that the thumbnails would be rebuilding after installing MC24 from scratch and restoring the library. But despite lowering thumbnail priority from medium to low, there are still one or two dropouts on every track played. I have also noticed this: if I interact with MC24 (e.g., skip or rate tracks, modify playlists), be it through the Win10 client or via VNC, the frequency of dropouts increases. If I leave everything alone, it goes back down to one or two per track.
I hadn't considered updating Raspian to Stretch, but that may be my next step. Just out of curiosity, erviv, did you start from a fresh install of Stretch, or did you dist-upgrade Jessie? I've been hesitant to upgrade given the warnings of possible failures.
Zhillsguy:
Long shot here......by chance did Dolby Digital Output Encoding or any sample rate conversion get turned on under DSP Studio? If so try turning it off.
erviv:
I did a fresh install of stretch, on a new sd card. This worked quite well, then on my second rpi I did an upgrade from Jessie. This didn’t work very well so I did a fresh install. Both my rpi’s are now running on stretch. I have not had any audio issues since I upgraded to stretch.
If you follow this approach it would be a good idea to back up your library to an external drive.
beard:
Thanks again for the suggestions. I do have DSP turned on, because I have high sample rate tracks in my collection that I need to convert down for my DAC. MC21 did this without issue, and turning it off is a non-starter for me.
I have since discovered 2 more use cases that make the issue much worse (meaning, many more dropouts during playback): jumping between smartlists in the interface, and moving files onto the drive where the music is stored. MC21 handled both of these situations without issue.
I haven't had the time or inclination to start a new installation of Raspian with Stretch. But is that the best recommended course of action here?
JimH:
It would be worth trying turning off all DSP, just as a test.
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