Re: Bug on Kernel 3.16 r6: Sound and Buffering in Clementine with Files are Transferring to Music Directory

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Jul 27 2014 - 02:51:00 EST


On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 22:07 -0700, Matt Joras wrote:
> Nick,
>
> I could be wrong but I doubt this is symptomatic of a "kernel bug" as
> you seem to think. Are you saying that the music stutters during a
> transfer operation to your external hard drive? I.e. the music playback
> in Clementine stutters while you are writing to the disk the music files
> are on? If so, that doesn't really sound like a bug to me, especially
> not a sound driver bug.

Not a sound driver bug, no, but is perhaps a latency issue if buffering
is not ridiculously tiny. It's a difficult to explore, but worth it.

-Mike

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