Dropouts under a very weird condition

[Tim Curtis]

@SerbJ

You didn't say in your first post whether the dropouts you experienced occurred when you were playing local files from the attached USB thumbdrive or when you were streaming audio from a remote source. I assumed it was with local files when I read it.

The first thing which comes to mind when I hear of a "dropout" is the momentary silencing which occurs when MPD experiences an underrun error. These errors get logged to the file /var/log/mpd/log. Off the top of my head, I don't recall if the MPD log level has to be pushed to "verbose" to see them. That setting can be found in the m> Config > Audio > MPD settings subpanel of the moOde webUI.

Mind you, the logs fill up from normal information and are cleared periodically so you may not easily catch unicorn events that way.

Regards,
Kent

Oops I think it was file from a locally attached USB drive. In that case audio glitches are not network related.

Yes, look at MPD log for XRUNs.

OK, that doesn't sound good.     There wasn't any in the MPD log.  Does "verbose" need to be set?

No I don't think verbose needs to be set but you might want to reboot and then post the moode startup log just in case there is some sort of config issue that shows in that log.

moodeutl -l

If you want to have a clean MPD log before doing a test then run the command below.

sudo truncate /var/log/mpd/log --size 0