moOde 5 Release Candidate RC0

[peredovitch]

Its prolly RAM issue.

Try running moodeutl -m and see whats printed for CPU and RAM utilization.

That's what I thought - but actually while listening to one of the Audiophile radio streams, moodeutl -m shows RAM usage around 65% with zram swap on and 70% with zram off, and CPU load between 10-30%. Which doesn't look too bad.
Sound quality with Moode 4.4 is as good as it gets with the humble RPi output - Moode is doing an *awesome* job really!
With Moode 5 any "dense" music like orchestral music is not listenable at all - sound is "wobbly", out of sync and creaky. "Lighter" music and speech are somewhat more listenable, but not by much...
*Maybe* related - the BBC 320K streams fail to play on either install (4.4 and 5) - "failed to decode" error, might well be some hardware limitation too? Not much a problem either since I can always fall back on the lower-quality streams tht you kindly provided too

Will try and tinker some more - if only for the fun of it -, otherwise I'll be content keeping 4.4 going on the old  RPi