On 8/26/2016 3:18 PM, huw wrote:

Good evening

Sometimes, when I'm doing something disk- or possibly CPU-intensive (big Steam downloads seem to be a major culprit), music I'm listening to in Amarok will pause for a second or two. This is pretty irritating and what I want to do is tell my PC that Amarok should always have priority so that it doesn't happen. I have a couple of questions around this:

1. Should I use renice for this, and if so, how do I ensure that Amarok always has the new niceness that I set? 2. Is it sufficient to renice only Amarok, or are there associated processes such as pulseaudio that need to be similarly reniced?

Many thanks in advance for any advice.

Kind regards, Huw

Are you streaming music, or playing from your own media? If streaming, you probably have a bandwidth problem, and I don't see any setting in Amarok to set the buffer size, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has such a setting somewhere. If you are playing from your own media (hard drive) you can probably try renice because its an easy thing to test - easier than asking here. You can probably watch your hard drive light and see if the problem is disk drive bandwidth. (No clue how to fix that unless buffering is found in Amarok.) You might also try another audio player as a test. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent---