Streaming MPD-over-http to my computer has drop-outs

[hestehandler]

I setup MPD-over-http output to my Mac, which works but with occasional drop-outs. Both Raspberry Pi 4 and the Mac are on wired ethernet. Also on the wired ethernet is the dedicated NAS that does nothing but serve the music files to the Raspberry Pi. The MPD is configured with ample read-ahead buffer.

I’ve had it happen while I was monitoring using `moodeutl -m`, but CPU-util. remains below 5%.

Here is the MPDlog that includes two drop-outs:

Code:

Aug 27 18:41 : player: played "NAS/mediaDS124/Tortoise/TNT/07 The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls.m4a"
Aug 27 18:41 : ffmpeg/mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, timescale not set
Aug 27 18:41 : alsa_output: Decoder is too slow; playing silence to avoid xrun
Aug 27 18:41 : alsa_output: Decoder is too slow; playing silence to avoid xrun
Aug 27 18:41 : alsa_output: Decoder is too slow; playing silence to avoid xrun
Aug 27 18:41 : alsa_output: Decoder is too slow; playing silence to avoid xrun
Aug 27 18:42 : ffmpeg/mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, timescale not set
Aug 27 18:45 : player: played "NAS/mediaDS124/Chocolate Hills/Yarns from the Chocolate Triangle [Qobuz]/01 Leaving Plymouth.m4a"
Aug 27 18:46 : ffmpeg/mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, timescale not set
Aug 27 18:50 : player: played "NAS/mediaDS124/Chocolate Hills/Yarns from the Chocolate Triangle [Qobuz]/02 Saragossa Wells.m4a"
Aug 27 18:52 : ffmpeg/mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, timescale not set

I’m using VLC on the Mac to play the stream.

Do you have any ideas? Know of any other apps that can play such a stream on the Mac?