Clicks listening to Spotify

[Jck]

Hello everybody,

I searched the forum but it seems that no one reported this problem: I'm experiencing a lot of clicks while listening to Spotify using RuneAudio on a Raspberry PI B+ connected to my AV receiver through HDMI.
Everything else (Webradio and FLAC from USB and NAS) is working great.

There is something I can try to do to solve the problem?
Thanks in advance .

[hondagx35]

[Jck]

Thanks for your answer.
I tried a couple of 320kbits webradio and they worked fine after a few "jumps" at the very beginning. I don't think this could be a connection problem because I can listen to Spotify smoothly from mobile, PC and from the Spotify app on my AVR (with one of the ugliest UI ever seen...). Beside, I usually stream 1080p video + 5.1 audio from Netflix.
I also tried to mess with the spop.conf file, setting high_bitrate = false to request 160kbit audio, but clicks are still here.
Last test has been to run spop directly from the command line, but still no luck.

spopd.log file reports several "[ap:4210] ChannelError(0, 1, playlist)" during playback, but I have not been able to find informations about them.

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

[hondagx35]

Hi,

you can experiment with the settings in spopd.conf.

# Cache path -- the location where Spotify will write cache files. This cache
# include tracks, cached browse results and coverarts. Set to empty string to
# disable cache. Can be the same as the settings path. Defaults to
# $XDG_CACHE_HOME/spop (usually ~/.cache/spop).
#cache_path = /var/lib/spop
# Cache size, in megabytes. The default value is 0, which means 10% of disk free
# space.
#cache_size = 0

As far as i know, caching is disabled in the configfile.

[hondagx35]

Hi,

these settings work for me.

### Cache settings ###
#cache_size = 0
cache_path = /tmp/spop
settings_path = /tmp/spop


Be carefull, the cache is written to sd-card, so there may be some "wearout".
If it works for you we have to find a way to do it in memory.

[Jck]

Thanks hondagx35.

I tried several combinations: cache on, cache off, small cache, big cache, cache on an external USB drive. I also tried to increase spopd process priority, but I didn't hear any difference (i.e. still clicking).
My configuration is pretty standard... How can I be the only one with this problem?

[cubix]

Hi Jck,

Did you manage to resolve your issue? I'm experiencing similar clicks and pops when listening to Spotify tracks.

Cheers

[Jck]

Unfortunately I'm still experiencing the problem. I hope it will be solved in the next release of RuneAudio!

[Anda]

[Jck]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will give it a try, but first I have to make Spotify work again... I think I broke something trying to recompile spopd...