Clicks between songs

[Jimbo]

In moOde 4.1 I get a relatively loud click or pop in the gap between one track and the next when playing from a saved playlist. It happens most of the time but not every time. Shuffle is On, gapless playback is off.
When playing tracks chosen directly from a CD or folder this does not happen.

I've just tried a my old moOde 3.8.4 using the same music and the same playlist. It also produces a pop between tracks but they are very quiet, almost inaudible.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[Tim Curtis]

How are you playing tracks directly from a CD with moOde?

[Jimbo]

How are you playing tracks directly from a CD with moOde?

Oops! - I mean playing a group of tracks which used to be on a physical CD but are now in a directory on a hard drive which I have selected from the Browse panel.

Rightly or wrongly I think of this as playng tracks directly rather than via an m3u playlist stored in var/lib/mpd/playlists.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Tim Curtis]

If the audio glitches are intermittent it suggests possibly the glitches are in the tracks themselves, maybe due to bad rips.

Otherwise, IME a lot of the DAC's based on Burr Brown PCM5xxx chips seem to have an audio bump whenever the audio output is closed/opened for example when skipping to another track. There is also the possibility of an MPD bug.
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/264
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/262
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/260

Doesn't look like the the above bug reports have made it into an MPD release yet
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicP...20.19/NEWS

-Tim

[Jimbo]

If the audio glitches are intermittent it suggests possibly the glitches are in the tracks themselves, maybe due to bad rips.

Otherwise, IME a lot of the DAC's based on Burr Brown PCM5xxx chips seem to have an audio bump whenever the audio output is closed/opened for example when skipping to another track.

There is also the possibility of an MPD bug.
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/264
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/262
https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/260

Doesn't look like the the above bug reports have made it into an MPD release yet
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicP...20.19/NEWS

-Tim

[Jimbo]

The clicks are not in the tracks. I can play the same tracks directly or via the same playlist on another system using foobar2000 on a PC but it also uses a different amplifier/dac.

Perhaps the dac is the problem. The problems occur on a system using a Quad Vena amp which has a Cirrus Logic CS 4398 dac.

I will be surprised and shocked if it is the dac. It seems like such a basic fault.

I also have a HiFiBerry dac that I can add to the pi and connect to the Quad's analogue input as a trial.