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harshadura

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Registered: 2013-05-08

Posts: 5

Audio issue, Songs are playing with little breaks (Not clear)

Hi I have a weird audio problem in my Arch. I can play songs and also audible but the case is those play with small breaks (let say some part of the music "beautiful" it heard like "be..u..ti...fu..l"). I can assure that MP3 files are not broken, another thing is the audio on Youtube videos are working(audible) nicely without any issue.
This happens only when I try to play music on the system..

Help much appreciated to resolve this issue, Thank you very much

-Harsha

Output of:

 $ pulseaudio -vvv 

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 3.0
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 3.8.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 21 07:58:46 CET 2013
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 43da114e4ecc415bae06931e2c5e81f9.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/harsha/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-3.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

Last edited by harshadura (2013-05-08 04:07:26)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Audio issue, Songs are playing with little breaks (Not clear)

Does it happen only with MP3s? Do you have any other type of audio files to test, such as ogg, flac, etc.

Also, do you notice a spike in cpu usage when the (broken) audio is playing?

harshadura

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Registered: 2013-05-08

Posts: 5

Re: Audio issue, Songs are playing with little breaks (Not clear)

Hi x33a,

Thanks for the reply,
yeah I checked with ogg, MP4 files too. same problem exists..

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Audio issue, Songs are playing with little breaks (Not clear)

In case you haven't tried already, try some other media player than what you are using.

If it still doesn't work, take a look at the pulseaudio wiki page, starting with:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … _crackling

harshadura

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Registered: 2013-05-08

Posts: 5

Re: Audio issue, Songs are playing with little breaks (Not clear)

Thanks I will check that.