Audacious play/stop/pause continuously while playing mp3 files...

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:52:52 -0700, Paul wrote:

> Are you using audacious with pulseaudio?
> 
> You may need to go into the configuration files if so, here is a wiki on 
> a "Perfect Setup" for pulseaudio: 
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
> 
> A lot you will not need, i.e.: The zeroconf/avahi section only applies 
> if you are doing networked audio, which most people don't do, they just 
> want this one machine to play media files. Note especially the 
> configuration details for Audacious, as it mentions stuttering problems.

Note that a buffer size of 500 here works fine with Audacious and Pulse
Audio plugin, and it's not a recent machine with lots of cpu power.

It may be helpful to collect some details about what audio hardware there
are problems with, what drivers, what cpu speed, whether disabling Pulse
Audio and switching to ALSA output plugin works. Browse existing tickets
about problems with Pulse Audio and ALSA drivers.

http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/pulseaudio
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/alsa-lib
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/kernel