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cb2500

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JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« on: August 04, 2024, 10:18:02 am »

Whenever I scroll through JRemote2 (albums, artists, etc) while audio is playing, the audio becomes choppy/stutters. Audio is playing on the computer, not through the android. It always happens when scrolling fast, and it happens occasionally when scrolling slow. All I can guess is that it's from all the thumbnails loading? Is there a fix for this? I do not notice the same behavior when scrolling within MC on the desktop.

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JRemote 2.4.1
MC 31.0.87
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2024, 11:40:14 am »

What is the specs of the computer MC31 is running on? Try running MC's benchmark on it and post the score here.
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2024, 01:36:15 pm »

specs:  i7-14700 2.10 GHz, 32 GB ram, 64-bit Windows 11

MC Benchmark:

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 1.494 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 1.953 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 0.398 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 0.473 seconds
Score: 4400

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 0.132 seconds
    Flood filling... 0.162 seconds
    Direct copying... 0.245 seconds
    Small renders... 0.442 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 0.187 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 0.739 seconds
Score: 11535

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 0.045 seconds
    Populate database... 0.360 seconds
    Save database... 0.059 seconds
    Reload database... 0.023 seconds
    Search database... 0.608 seconds
    Sort database... 0.334 seconds
    Group database... 0.372 seconds
Score: 11941

JRMark (version 31.0.87 64 bit): 9292
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2024, 11:50:54 pm »

I'm running an MC server on Win11 Intel i5 NUC.  Its MC benchmarks are about 3-5 times worse than yours (i.e. take longer) yet I do not encounter your choppy playback issue.  I can very rapidly scroll repeatedly back and forth through JRemote2 thumbnails on an old Samsung Galaxy S9 Android phone with no audible effect on server.

Playback at 44.1 kHz 16bit 2-channel stereo to USB DAC.  Typical jpg and png image sizes vary from 30 - 300 kB, a few as large as 1 MB.

JRemote2 settings:  Theme = dark | View mode = Thumbnails |Thumbnail Size = Medium.
Android Power Mode:  Optimized.

Maybe it's the number of thumbnails?  I currently have only about 765 albums in the MC library, 225GB, all artwork stored inside the audio files (mainly FLAC).
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2024, 05:30:03 pm »

OK, yeah looks like it's all the covers loading. The library is 2TB, 6,206 albums. Not surprisingly, playing an mp3 results in less choppy noise, but when playing DSD or 24-bit it gets pretty bad. Looking at the windows resource monitor, whenever I scroll on JRemote the network Send for JRiver increases fairly rapidly. So I guess sending all those thumbnails causes the noise.
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2024, 05:42:17 pm »

That's odd, because my library has twice as many albums (all FLAC) and I never see resource usage that large. Do you have any features on like memory playback or anything of the sort? Very strange issue indeed.
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2024, 06:17:39 pm »

No memory playback, nothing selected in DSP studio. Just running USB Audio [ASIO] to a Topping DX7 pro. Would any of these settings matter below?
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Re: JRemote2 scrolling and stuttering/choppy audio
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2024, 06:37:23 pm »

Topping DX7 pro product page:
https://apos.audio/products/topping-dx7-pro-dac-amp

Obviously, there is a bottleneck somewhere.  I would test only FLAC if you can.

The machine is very capable, not a problem there.

Whenever, Disk I/O is challenged, I always think about antivirus software.

You can build all thumbnails in MC all at once.  It's in options.

ASIO driver.  Can you try something else?
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