On Sun, 2020-01-12 at 22:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
One of my laptops has a minor, but an annoying, glitch with audio playback. I've observed this behavior with both Firefox and other audio playback applications. When audio playback starts /for the first time/, maybe the first 400-500ms of audio gets dropped, and then the rest of the audio plays fine.
Is there some kind of power saving mode with your hardware? Putting supposedly inactive hardware to sleep.
On various bits of digital audio hardware/software, I commonly encounter another annoyance: Something will start to play, and there'll be a little hiccup moments after the beginning. It's akin to playing a vinyl record which has track damage.
In both our cases, it could also be a caching/buffering issue.