Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> writes:
I listen to my music through Music Player Daemon (MPD), so the next thing was to try another player. MPlayer behaved flawlessly, even through PA, so that pointed the finger at MPD. I monitor my computer with gkrellm, and I noticed that there was very little disk activity during playback with MPlayer, whereas MPD reads data from the disk in 262k chunks.
I am a long time user of MPD and have never had any problems. Do you see any MPD or ALSA errors in /var/log/messages?
Maybe a buffer somewhere is being emptied faster than it fills when using MPD, compared to MPlayer.
Your can try increasing the buffer_before_play size in /etc/mpd.conf. Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)