09-01-2019, 12:08 PM
It’d be interesting to see what difference the preempt rt kernel would make but I’m not bored enough to mess with it yet. From memory 3.8.4 with rt/ll + fifo sounded more relaxed and 4.x more forward, whether that was good or bad probably depended on your chain.
I’ve said it before but for 6.x I think there’s a pretty noticeable improvement to be found with the newer .21 version of mpd (it uses rt threads as above so gives much the same benefit as an rt kernel) but we can’t switch over to the new one as default because of the bluetooths.
If you need bluetooth check out Edward’s audio tweaks thread somewhere on the forum, they adjust task priorities and some other stuff and I thought improved things a bit. I think it sounds better without the tweaks if you’re using the newer mpd but ymmv and it’s easy enough to try it out and remove if desired.
I’ve said it before but for 6.x I think there’s a pretty noticeable improvement to be found with the newer .21 version of mpd (it uses rt threads as above so gives much the same benefit as an rt kernel) but we can’t switch over to the new one as default because of the bluetooths.
If you need bluetooth check out Edward’s audio tweaks thread somewhere on the forum, they adjust task priorities and some other stuff and I thought improved things a bit. I think it sounds better without the tweaks if you’re using the newer mpd but ymmv and it’s easy enough to try it out and remove if desired.
