[SOLVED] Audio glitching on Pi 5

[TheOldPresbyope]

@robkyf 

Couple of thoughts...

1) The Pi 5, like the Pi 4 models, has both USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports. You should be sure your DAC is connected to a USB2.0 port. In principle, USB3.0 ports are backward-compatible with USB2.0 devices, but there are always edge cases.

2) you could set MPD to elevated log level (m > Config > Audio > MPD settings) and enable moDe's debug logging (m > Config > System > Logs). Check their logs, /var/log/moode.log and /var/log/mpd/log for periodic ( e.g., every 10s - 20s) error messages. 

As well, you can watch the Raspberry Pi OS system message stream for periodic error messages

Code:

journalctl -f

Good hunting!

Regards,
Kent