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VLC and Elisa (music player) skip while playing MP3s (self.linux4noobs)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by clay_pidgin to c/[email protected]

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Howdy,

I have been experiencing annoying brief skips, like on a bumped CD player, with my media players. Replaying the same song or same part of the song does not have the skips, so I don't think it's the files' fault.

Had the same problem in Elisa and VLC. I don't watch much local video, but streaming audio and video doesn't have this problem for me.

Watching the system monitor I see I have 10 Gb of free memory and only 5-10% CPU utilization.

System is Debian 12 with KDE and Xwindows. (Wayland doesn't like my Nvidia 1070)

Any suggestion for how to troubleshoot would be appreciated. I tried downloading more memory but that didn't help!

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[–] lurch 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Happens in Ubuntu as well since several months in all players. Doesn't happen with opus and flac files.

[–] clay_pidgin 1 points 4 days ago

Something compression related maybe. Hmm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what you're running into is the system stalling usually due to unoptimized or pathological edge cases. the system load doesn't necessarily matter. thats why it happens random and isnt repeatable.

as for your follow up question: many media players have builtin album art resolution. though not sure how to enable it.

[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll check on the second. On the OP, is there anything I can do? A better media player? Surely everyone isn't just putting up with this!

Thank you for the reply.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

im not too familiar with debian, so its hard to say. could be any number of issues: the type of encoding your media is in, the media player, the kernel, drivers.

[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not too encouraging, I've got to say!

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Try a different player. elisa is built on top of vlc's codec library. see if the problem goes away. if the file's format is rare i'd try to convert it to a new format and see if the problem is resolved.

[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I shall try!

They're just MP3s, but I wouldn't know what kind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

those should be pretty well optimized at this point. that leaves basically the drivers if you have issues on a different player. do you have issues with audio on say youtube?

[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not that I have noticed. I do watch music videos, so I think I would have heard it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well thats good! Pointing towards vlc specific issues ;)

[–] clay_pidgin 3 points 5 days ago

Off topic, is there a way to add thumbnails to mp3s automatically? Like CD covers or something.