Linux Mint mutes parts of music

Tue Apr 30 19:48:53 MST 2019

I thought you were having problems in other players?
was top saying clementine was using 10% ? how much was pulse taking as
clementine was running? Any other programs listed in top as you are using
clementine?
Check if clementine has a fade in delay.
Odd tones makes me think corrupt files, which could be the sign of a disk
going bad
Same with blank audio
You say it worked fine for a year, and you did no updates, that would make
me think a hardware issue.
You could look at iostat on the disk or check the number of bad sectors
with smart tools

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 9:49 AM Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:

> Victor M.
> Thanks for the suggestions. I do think I need to try a new OS, so maybe
> one of these.
> I’ll grab another hard disk and start fresh, using the year-old disk to
> copy my library and scripts.
> In my researching, I’ve encountered a number of complaints about
> PulseAudio.
>
> Anybody familiar with either AV Linux or KX Studio?
>
> Aaron:
> 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.
> (The way cmus is described tells me it very should work extremely well.)
>
> Bob:
> I’m using a small amount of my year-old 2 TB hard disk.
> TOP says I’m using <10% of my CPU. I haven’t run any updates, in the year
> it’s been running.
> 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.
> If music is corrupted, why would it play smoothly in several other
> programs?
> ________________
>
> On 20190430, at 06:49, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hard drive or ssd? What size and how much free space?
> Have you tried running top to see if the CPU is getting overloaded?
> 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...
> Could be a drive problem how old is the drive?
> What bitrate is the music? Is the music stuttering or actually continuing
> later in the song?
> Can you copy the music file you had the problem with to another computer
> to make sure it didn't get corrupted?
> _____________________
>
> On 20190430, at 01:25, Aaron Jones <retro64xyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> https://cmus.github.io/
>
> _____________________
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 1:49 AM Victor Montoya <victor.montoya1 at cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I suggest Linux Calculate.  It is a Gentoo based distro that I believe
>> doesn't have pulse audio.
>> 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.
>> _____________________
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces
>> of the music. It used to run smoothly.
>>
>> Can someone suggest a *more stable music-playing distro of Linux,*
>> and/or a better *play-list manager*?
>>
>> *Requirements;*
>> Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.
>> Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.
>> Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not
>> simultaneously with playing music.
>>
>> I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.
>> Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an
>> occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.
>> I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my
>> problem is software.
>>
>> *The problem:* Clementine has served us well for about a year.
>> Now,* when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!*
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> *Status:* I am desparate.
>> I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.
>> I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the
>> wrong distro?
>> Does PulseAudio have something to do with this? Should I use JACK?
>> I could try AV Linux — it’s 32bit not 64, but is supposed to be extremely
>> stable with rich audio repositories.
>> I could try KX Studio — supposedly very stable, with frequent tested
>> updates of audio tools.
>>
>> I could switch to (gasp!) windows since I’m the only Linux geek in the
>> organization. Help me to be strong!
>>
>> *The problem is not just with Clementine.*
>>                         I tested with some other software:
>> * *Rhythmbox* plays well, with the occasional *injection of a rogue
>> note.*
>> * *Media Player* seems to run well, and *SM Player* & *MPV* likewise.
>> But these *aren’t good for managing play lists.*
>> * *VLC* 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.
>> * I tried *Audacity* for an extra “player” test: I used it as the “open
>> with” choice for a song. As it launched, it made *a nasty scratching
>> noise* that I have not learned before. But then when I hit the play
>> button it rendered the song nicely, like Media Player etc.
>>
>> In my research I’ve found discussions of earlier troubles in Mint, with
>> scratching noises and stuff. Mine seems different.
>>
>> Does this sound like
>>
>> *Computer Configuration:*
>> Intel Celeron CPU G3930 800.048 MHZ
>> MOBO Gigabyte H110M-M2-CF
>> Audio HDA-INTEL PCH, USB Audio CODEC
>> CODEC REALTEC ALC887-VD
>> HDA Intel PCH Line Out ALSA Driver Ver K4.10.0-38-generic
>> (Audio is fed from USB port to a Behringer U-Control adapter, then to the
>> Mackie mixer board.)
>> MINT 18.3 (MATE 1.18.2 Metacity Marco)
>> x86_64 Linux - OS Release 4.10.0-36 generic
>> Memory: 8 GB.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestion you might have for me.
>> Victor Odhner
>>
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