[SOLVED] MPD better but still fallouts.

[agent_kith]

Hi.

Have posted a lot on the internet regards my annoying issues with mpd and maybe my Chord 2Qute DAC don't know.

I have these "one two seconds" fallout silence , and then the music plays again (ONLY when using DOP) playing DSF files.

There are some possible causes, the first is an interference issue. To test this theory, look around your house and identify anything that could be a cause, examples include fridge, freezer, air/conditioner, pump, lights. 

Now check if that correspond to the drop outs. e.g. what happens if you turn on/off the light switch, when the compressor of the fridge kicks in, and so on.

 

On Snakeoil it's better using the MPD-DSD-RT version with the default conf file. I wonder where I cound add more options to
mpd.conf ???

PS! Have a fallout at least once or twice every hour, but a progress in my world..

Anyhow a real nice player..

The second cause is I/O resources on your computer. I have sent you an activation code, and you can use the "Add Process" method to tune your running tasks so they run at a higher priority. Modify the interrupt (the IRQ that drives the audio card) to -99. And also anything else in the playback chain (e.g. Network IRQ if you're playing music off a NAS).

In the System tab there is a command call "Top". Play some music, then run that command and monitor the first five processes, if anything constantly pop up in the top five, and have a number "20" to it, add that in the "Add Process" box and give it a number -99.

There's nothing else to set in the mpd.conf that could fix it. Sure you can try changing the period buffer to bigger values in the hopes to ride out any issues, but that is not really a fix.

Some other suggestions to rule things out:

1. If you're playing music off a NAS, try and copy that music over to your Snakeoil OS machine and see if it's any better.
   
2. Check if you're only getting this on DSD via DOP, and never on higher res PCM (192 or DXD).
   
3. When the audio drop outs, verify it's never at the same timestamp of the song, but at random intervals.
   
4. Note the time of the drop out, and then find the time difference between them, see if there is a pattern
   
5. What about LMS + Squeezelite, do you have the same issue?