[PROBLEM] Cyrus soundkey intermittent distortion

[leicray]

It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only person to have experienced this particular problem. Furthermore, your description of a "nasty tearing sound" captures exactly the nature of the distortion.

The audio files that I am playing are mostly in FLAC format (CD rips) and are probably encoded using VBR which might well be triggering the distortion. If I can find the time, I might try re-ripping some tracks using FBR for a comparison. I do find that if I allow a track to play after the onset of distortion then it will often "correct" itself and the distortion disappears.

Perhaps the solution is for Tim to update alsa-lib to the latest version in the next version of moOde.

Thanks for sharing your insights.