Spotify sounds skips

[rootetsy]

Recently I started noticing frequent sound skips in the Spotify desktop client. Kind of like you're listening to a cheap CD player and you keep bumping it. Lol.

Not much has changed in my system in a while other than normal update type stuff. I tried playing some local files and no issues there. Then tried playing PlutoTV for a while in my browser and no issues there either. And finally I tried the browser version of Spotify and it works fine too.

So it looks like it's just the desktop client. Ugh. Has anyone else noticed that issue and if so have you found a fix. I like using the desktop client.

[Eadwine Rose]

Try starting it in the terminal, maybe it will spit something out in there that could lead us to a solution.

[jackdanielsesq]

I have experienced numerous sound issues - rectified most of it, but found Firefox/browsing to be
the main culprit - it simply hogs a lot of resources .. quit your browser, see if it goes away/reduces

Jack

Recently I started noticing frequent sound skips in the Spotify desktop client. Kind of like you're listening to a cheap CD player and you keep bumping it. Lol.....

[rootetsy]

Thanks for the suggestion guys. I had planned on testing the Liquorix kernel in the test repos this weekend anyway and I just did that. Things seem to be much better in Spotify and I haven't noticed the issue in about 2 hours of play since installing it. :)

It could be that I'm just not working my computer as hard since it's the weekend and I'm not actually at work. Lol. We'll see and I'll update again if the issue comes back.

[rootetsy]

Well, I was wrong about the Liquorix kernel helping. I just wasn't working the computer hard enough during the weekend I guess.

I ran the desktop client in the terminal and this is the only message displayed which happens before I hit play on anything.

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[0520/134331.787934:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(379)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

It does appear to be Firefox activity that causes the skips as jackdanielsesq suggested. I always have a ton of tabs open during work and many of the sites are pretty heavy.

The funny thing is though is that the web client for Spotify running in Firefox never skips. Lol. And also nothing else seems to skip.

Here is my inxi output:

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System:    Host: blt Kernel: 5.0.0-16.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 
           Distro: MX-18.2_x64 Continuum March 14  2018 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E5-574G v: V1.10 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Acer model: Zoro_SL v: V1.10 serial: <root required> UEFI [Legacy]: Insyde 
           v: 1.10 date: 11/27/2015 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.9 Wh condition: 32.9/37.0 Wh (89%) 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 499 2: 500 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 520 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M] driver: N/A 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.0-16.1-liquorix-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 54:ab:3a:2d:95:e2 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
           driver: ath10k_pci 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: da:c1:37:75:4c:93 
           IF-ID-1: docker0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: 02:42:4c:bb:89:80 
           IF-ID-2: vethb78b951 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 12:8a:f8:51:01:a0 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 400.08 GiB (34.4%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS250G2B0A-00SM50 size: 232.89 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 211.49 GiB used: 110.65 GiB (52.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 284 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 295 Uptime: 2d 5h 27m Memory: 15.53 GiB used: 6.93 GiB (44.6%) Shell: bash 
           inxi: 3.0.33