<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Victor M.</div><div class="">Thanks for the suggestions. I do think I need to try a new OS, so maybe one of these.</div><div class="">I’ll grab another hard disk and start fresh, using the year-old disk to copy my library and scripts.</div><div class="">In my researching, I’ve encountered a number of complaints about PulseAudio.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anybody familiar with either AV Linux or KX Studio?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Aaron:</div><div class="">I have various people running this system, so command line is definitely out of the question. Everyone knows Windows, so if my next attempt doesn’t work perfectly I’ll have to cave in and buy Win10. Being the sole geek is not good for the organization.</div><div class="">(The way cmus is described tells me it very should work extremely well.)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bob:</div><div class="">I’m using a small amount of my year-old 2 TB hard disk.</div><div class="">TOP says I’m using <10% of my CPU. I haven’t run any updates, in the year it’s been running.</div><div class="">I hardly look at bitrate, so don’t know. Clementine shows song moving smoothly with no sound, then sound kicks in at five seconds into the song.</div><div class="">If music is corrupted, why would it play smoothly in several other programs?</div><div class="">________________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><div class="">On 20190430, at 06:49, Bob Elzer <<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com" class="">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">hard drive or ssd? What size and how much free space?<div dir="auto" class="">Have you tried running top to see if the CPU is getting overloaded?</div><div dir="auto" class="">Are you doing regular updates? You say it was running fine, did you start having problems after an update. If that is the case, do you really need to do the updates? If it ain't broke...</div><div dir="auto" class="">Could be a drive problem how old is the drive?</div><div dir="auto" class="">What bitrate is the music? Is the music stuttering or actually continuing later in the song?</div><div dir="auto" class="">Can you copy the music file you had the problem with to another computer to make sure it didn't get corrupted?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">_____________________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">On 20190430, at 01:25, Aaron Jones <<a href="mailto:retro64xyz@gmail.com" class="">retro64xyz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Try cmus if you are comfortable doing it from the command line. You get a tui for managing it but it can also be scripted. </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://cmus.github.io/" class="">https://cmus.github.io/</a></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">_____________________</div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 1:49 AM Victor Montoya <<a href="mailto:victor.montoya1@cox.net" class="">victor.montoya1@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">I suggest Linux Calculate. It is a Gentoo based distro that I believe doesn't have pulse audio.<div class="">I also suggest Linux MX. It is Debian based and had system d and pulse audio by passed. It will also probably be easier to install and maintain. I find that many audio problems have their roots in System D and pulse audio.</div><div class="">_____________________<br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner <<a href="mailto:vodhner@cox.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">vodhner@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces of the music. It used to run smoothly.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can someone suggest a <b class="">more stable music-playing distro of Linux,</b> and/or a better <b class="">play-list manager</b>?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Requirements;</b><br class="">Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.</div><div class="">Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.</div><div class="">Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not simultaneously with playing music.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.</div><div class="">Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.</div><div class="">I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my problem is software.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">The problem:</b> Clementine has served us well for about a year.</div><div class="">Now,<b class=""> when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A few songs work well, consistently. For a few other songs I get the first beat of the song, then it plays the next five seconds silently, then turns the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced by a rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but now that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one beat of the next song!</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Status:</b> I am desparate.</div><div class="">I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.</div><div class=""><div class="">I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong distro?</div></div><div class="">Does PulseAudio have something to do with this? Should I use JACK?</div><div class="">I could try AV Linux — it’s 32bit not 64, but is supposed to be extremely stable with rich audio repositories.</div><div class="">I could try KX Studio — supposedly very stable, with frequent tested updates of audio tools.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I could switch to (gasp!) windows since I’m the only Linux geek in the organization. Help me to be strong!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">The problem is not just with Clementine.</b></div><div class=""> I tested with some other software:</div><div class="">* <b class="">Rhythmbox</b> plays well, with the occasional <b class="">injection of a rogue note.</b></div><div class="">* <b class="">Media Player</b> seems to run well, and <b class="">SM Player</b> & <b class="">MPV</b> likewise. But these <b class="">aren’t good for managing play lists.</b></div><div class="">* <b class="">VLC</b> sputters along continually in a sort of motorboat pattern. You can hear the song faintly, with bits of the song alternating with muted moments several times a second.</div><div class="">* I tried <b class="">Audacity</b> for an extra “player” test: I used it as the “open with” choice for a song. As it launched, it made <b class="">a nasty scratching noise</b> that I have not learned before. But then when I hit the play button it rendered the song nicely, like Media Player etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my research I’ve found discussions of earlier troubles in Mint, with scratching noises and stuff. Mine seems different.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does this sound like </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Computer Configuration:</b></div><div class="">Intel Celeron CPU G3930 800.048 MHZ</div><div class="">MOBO Gigabyte H110M-M2-CF</div><div class="">Audio HDA-INTEL PCH, USB Audio CODEC</div><div class="">CODEC REALTEC ALC887-VD</div><div class="">HDA Intel PCH Line Out ALSA Driver Ver K4.10.0-38-generic</div><div class="">(Audio is fed from USB port to a Behringer U-Control adapter, then to the Mackie mixer board.)</div><div class="">MINT 18.3 (MATE 1.18.2 Metacity Marco)</div><div class="">x86_64 Linux - OS Release 4.10.0-36 generic</div><div class="">Memory: 8 GB.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for any suggestion you might have for me.</div><div class="">Victor Odhner</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">---------------------------------------------------</span><br class=""><span class="">PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a></span><br class=""><span class="">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></span></div></blockquote></div></div>---------------------------------------------------<br class="">
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