Hi, when I play spotify through balenaSound on my RPi4 I hear tiny gaps/pauses in the sound approximately every 10-20 seconds. Looking in the log they’re matching these warnings: W: [pulseaudio] module-loopback.c: Too many underruns, increasing latency to 340.00 ms and the number of ms is always i…

Thanks for the additional info. Let us know if you’re able to confirm that enabling multiroom again brings the symptoms back. One thing you may want to check: the version of balenaOS you have reports CPU and temperature information back to the dashboard. It would be worth seeing if either are pa…

So I’ve tested it again with multiroom enabled and the issue was there! Switched back to STANDALONE and all is fine. CPU, temp, memory all green.

Hi there, thanks for the report, I’ll notify the maintainer. The other thing I am curious about is the type of SD Card being used, if it’s perhaps not quick enough to keep up with the read/write. We recommend Sandisk Extreme Pro, with a UHS 1 or A1 rating.

Hi All, long time experimenter first time poster. Can confirm I had similar issues today when testing this out, often stuttering with pulse audio having to increase the latency. ([pulseaudio] module-loopback.c: Too many underruns, increasing latency) Have also tried converting to standalone and h…

Hello, balenaSound maintainer here. Switching to STANDALONE mode shouldn’t have this type of impact with regards to the underruns, at least in theory. Since we have two data points indicating the contrary in this thread I think I need to go back and take a deeper look to see what’s going on. There …

Hi Tomas, Just as in FYI, you’ll find a third data point (though with RPi3+) here. [image] newbie unable to select 32-bit for RPi 3 balenaSound Hi, Trying to add new device via the dashboard. The only RPi options are Pi 3 (using 64-bit OS) and Pi 4. I’ve a 3 B+. Full …

Hi Steve, thanks for the input, I will forward it to @tmigone

I have the same issue, I have two devices RPi 3. I have disabled every feature plugin, besides spotify-connect on the multiroom-master Pi (the other is running as multiroom-client), and pi3-disable-bt on both. I did this thinking it’d be good to run as lean as possible. Only the Pi running as multi…

Hi Calle, thanks for sharing this. Every bit of information helps! I’ll see if I can prioritize this and get to the bottom in the next couple days/weeks. For anyone else finding this thread, use https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound/issues/294 to keep track of progress.

I have noticed that there are periodic glitches that affect all speakers at the same time. In my case, only my RPi Zero W devices have individual glitches, which I sort of understand the source of. But the fleet will have tiny glitches on a regular cycle that seems to fluctuate between about 15 se…

Spotify - tiny gaps/pauses in the sound

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garciasteve November 5, 2020, 12:01am 19

Hi Tomas,
Just as in FYI, you’ll find a third data point (though with RPi3+) here.

Steve

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Spotify - tiny gaps/pauses in the sound

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