I have this issue where certain apps stop playing audio for a few seconds, then resume. The issue happens randomly, and it seems it’s caused by a buffer underrun, but I haven’t been capable of finding a solution. It happens with most audio players: QuodLibet, Fooyin, Rhythmbox, Strawberry, Clementine. It doesn’t happen at all with MPD or web browsers.
I’ve tried configuring Pipewire, GStreamer, and ALSA with no avail. And at this point I’m too tired, really. I’m using Fedora now, but the issue has happened on Endeavour and Debian too, so… ¯\(ツ)/¯
TBH yeah kinda. My Debian install automatically switched to pipewire after the last release upgrade, and that’s been shit. My soundcard’s USB-connection is physically unstable sometimes, pulseaudio and jackd can recover from a lost connection easily but Debian’s pipewire setup couldn’t (and if there was a way to manually fix it, there wasn’t any documentation on it that I could find that actually worked).
I fixed it by using a different USB cable (that is a lot shorter, which is an issue on my desk) und uninstalling pipewire, but the latter seems kind of unsustainable and I’m not very motivated to buy yet another different USB cable, the one I bought that had problems was already one of the more expensive ones (and it wasn’t low quality, it was just ever so slightly too narrow to fit securely).
Y’all are having audio problems?
I have this issue where certain apps stop playing audio for a few seconds, then resume. The issue happens randomly, and it seems it’s caused by a buffer underrun, but I haven’t been capable of finding a solution. It happens with most audio players: QuodLibet, Fooyin, Rhythmbox, Strawberry, Clementine. It doesn’t happen at all with MPD or web browsers.
I’ve tried configuring Pipewire, GStreamer, and ALSA with no avail. And at this point I’m too tired, really. I’m using Fedora now, but the issue has happened on Endeavour and Debian too, so… ¯\(ツ)/¯
Obviously, we’all are solving audio problems.
I haven’t had any since 2018…is oy still an issue on some distros?
Pipewire made problems for me, that’s a new thing.
Interesting, it was Pipewire that fixed stuff for me way back. So many distros though, each with quirks.
TBH yeah kinda. My Debian install automatically switched to pipewire after the last release upgrade, and that’s been shit. My soundcard’s USB-connection is physically unstable sometimes, pulseaudio and jackd can recover from a lost connection easily but Debian’s pipewire setup couldn’t (and if there was a way to manually fix it, there wasn’t any documentation on it that I could find that actually worked).
I fixed it by using a different USB cable (that is a lot shorter, which is an issue on my desk) und uninstalling pipewire, but the latter seems kind of unsustainable and I’m not very motivated to buy yet another different USB cable, the one I bought that had problems was already one of the more expensive ones (and it wasn’t low quality, it was just ever so slightly too narrow to fit securely).
same unstable stuff with my onboard sound and I am close to buying an external soundcard, because I want surround, anyway