We might just need to investigate a bit more closely the data transfer…
Found this thread today. I was having the same issue w/ plexamp 1.0.2 on Mac 10.13.3. Not FLAC files, but higher bitrate VBR files. Making these changes seems to have resolved the problem:
buffer_before_play "10%"
audio_buffer_size "32768"I’ve tried several combinations of audio_buffer_size and buffer_before_play with no apparent change to the audio stuttering problem (Win7 64-bit, remote streaming MP3 music). After an hour or two of streaming, playback always begins stuttering. If I then press pause, the playback stops and the currently playing playlist disappears, leaving only the default choices (Recently Played, Recently Added, etc.) If I don’t press pause and instead shut down Plexamp and restart it, the playlist resumes playing from where it was without stuttering. Until a couple of hours later when it starts stuttering again.
Huh, super interesting; when you run into the stuttering, do you see high memory usage on any of the processes?
I’ll monitor the processes on Monday to see if there’s a change in memory usage pre- to post-stuttering. I’ll use Process Explorer.
@elan said:
Huh, super interesting; when you run into the stuttering, do you see high memory usage on any of the processes?
I’ve been monitoring Plexamp in Process Explorer while playing remotely on a Windows 7 x64 PC. The memory usage of one of the processes seems to go up slowly but continuously. After about 2 hours of continuous playback, the audio began stuttering. These are screen captures of memory usage at a few points.
UPDATE: It doesn’t appear to be an issue of reaching a certain memory ceiling. The next playback session started stuttering after about 1 hour and the memory usage had not reached the previous session’s level.
ANOTHER UPDATE: The next session lasted only about 10 minutes before stuttering playback began.
Me having the same issue on Mac especially when listening to FLAC files. Using the Web app everything runs smooth, but on Plexamp I get stuttering playback usually after the first song or already after several seconds.
My upload speed is somewhere between 8-10 Mbit/s.
@“Dale Lovingood” ~ thanks for the info. I think I mentioned this on another thread, but the following two things might help distinguish between an MPD issue and a Plexamp process issue:
- Stop playback completely; start playing something new.
- Stop playback completely; Kill MPD.exe process; start playing something new.
@elan Thanks. I’ll try that when I‘m back at work on Tuesday.
It almost seems like there is a leak in the buffer (if that’s possible). I seem to see issues if I skip a bunch of tracks as if each track leaks a bit then I start running into stuttering. Need to restart the app to fix it.
I could be completely off base, but it is just a feeling I get when using the app remotely.
Exactly same problem here. Upload speed is 40Mb/s and all my FLACs and MP3s are stuttering. I remember it worked the first day when I downloaded and played my music library remotely. After that, never worked smoothly.
Alright. Immediately after changing buffer_before_play to 35% and a restart of Plexamp, I haven’t have any issue yet. Music is playing continuously without any stutter. I will keep checking and will report if it will stutter again.
@akhil7j where did you update the settings on OSX? I didn’t notice a difference and or Plexamp was overriding the settings when I updated ~/.mpdconf or /etc/.mpdconf. Can you share your config?
@kylekyle said:
@akhil7j where did you update the settings on OSX? I didn’t notice a difference and or Plexamp was overriding the settings when I updated~/.mpdconfor/etc/.mpdconf. Can you share your config?
/Applications/Plexamp.app/Contents/Resources/helpers/mpd.conf
Actually I went straight awat to Activity Monitor and picked mpd and saw its path which was as pasted above.
Its been a week, no issue of stuttering with Plexamp. Its working as it should be.
@akhil7j said:
Alright. Immediately after changing buffer_before_play to 35% and a restart of Plexamp, I haven’t have any issue yet. Music is playing continuously without any stutter. I will keep checking and will report if it will stutter again.
That would seem to indicate that at least in your case, it was a matter of the buffer size being too small.
We can certainly adjust the default if that seems to help more people with the issue.
