Sound always stuttering/glitching

mluts — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:21:40 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Ukraine

Device

ThinkPad E595

Operating System

ArchLinux (Gnome Wayland)

My Question or Issue

When i click "play" button it sounds like spotify enters infinite loop of play/pause until i click "stop", ui is ok, only sound is broken, it's visible in the console.

Deleting ~/.config/spotify and ~/.cache/spotify doesn't help.

Also, cpu load becomes higher and spotify generates enormous logs.

Here how it looks when i run `spotify --show-console`

```
38.016 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:38.030 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:38.168 I [f:456 ] High request latency: https://spclient.wg.spotify.com/connect-state took 165 ms
12:11:38.169 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:38.184 I [f:632 ] Starting playback.
12:11:38.184 I [f:634 ] min limit 4000 ms.
12:11:38.184 I [f:635 ] compressed buffer: 117177 bytes
12:11:38.184 I [f:637 ] decompressed buffer: 0 ms
12:11:38.184 I [f:639 ] sink buffer: 1030 ms
12:11:38.184 I [f:640 ] final source buffer: false
12:11:38.185 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is not buffering
12:11:38.290 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:38.331 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:38.390 I [f:632 ] Starting playback.
12:11:38.390 I [f:634 ] min limit 4000 ms.
12:11:38.390 I [f:635 ] compressed buffer: 112902 bytes
12:11:38.390 I [f:637 ] decompressed buffer: 0 ms
12:11:38.390 I [f:639 ] sink buffer: 1021 ms
12:11:38.390 I [f:640 ] final source buffer: false
12:11:38.391 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is not buffering
12:11:38.430 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:38.492 D [connect:182 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: Cluster timestamp 1663675898227
12:11:38.552 I [f:632 ] Starting playback.
12:11:38.552 I [f:634 ] min limit 4000 ms.
12:11:38.552 I [f:635 ] compressed buffer: 223398 bytes
12:11:38.552 I [f:637 ] decompressed buffer: 0 ms
12:11:38.552 I [f:639 ] sink buffer: 1069 ms
12:11:38.552 I [f:640 ] final source buffer: false
12:11:38.552 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is not buffering
12:11:38.576 I [f:456 ] High request latency: https://spclient.wg.spotify.com/connect-state took 160 ms
12:11:38.579 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:38.597 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:38.664 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:38.759 I [f:632 ] Starting playback.
12:11:38.759 I [f:634 ] min limit 4000 ms.
12:11:38.759 I [f:635 ] compressed buffer: 219075 bytes
12:11:38.759 I [f:637 ] decompressed buffer: 0 ms
12:11:38.759 I [f:639 ] sink buffer: 1054 ms
12:11:38.759 I [f:640 ] final source buffer: false
12:11:38.759 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is not buffering
12:11:38.798 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:38.864 D [connect:182 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: Cluster timestamp 1663675898598
12:11:38.873 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:38.963 I [f:632 ] Starting playback.
12:11:38.963 I [f:634 ] min limit 4000 ms.
12:11:38.963 I [f:635 ] compressed buffer: 214607 bytes
12:11:38.963 I [f:637 ] decompressed buffer: 0 ms
12:11:38.963 I [f:639 ] sink buffer: 1054 ms
12:11:38.963 I [f:640 ] final source buffer: false
12:11:38.963 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is not buffering
12:11:39.002 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:39.071 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
12:11:39.168 I [f:632 ] Starting playback.
12:11:39.168 I [f:634 ] min limit 4000 ms.
12:11:39.168 I [f:635 ] compressed buffer: 210531 bytes
12:11:39.168 I [f:637 ] decompressed buffer: 0 ms
12:11:39.168 I [f:639 ] sink buffer: 1054 ms
12:11:39.168 I [f:640 ] final source buffer: false
12:11:39.168 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is not buffering
12:11:39.200 I [f:400 ] Entry (0x7fcbc899fd18) is buffering
12:11:39.271 D [connect:182 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: Cluster timestamp 1663675899007
12:11:39.279 D [connect:191 ] ConnectState::updateCluster: delaying cluster update 200ms
```

Re: Sound always stuttering/glitching

user-removed — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 03:29:42 GMT

I've been having a similar issue on Ubuntu lately, making Spotify Desktop unusable. Were you able to find a cause or solution for this?

Re: Sound always stuttering/glitching

user-removed — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 03:35:23 GMT

Ha - I was able to reliably reproduce and fix it by increasing the value of this env variable:

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=300 spotify --show-console

I had it set to 60ms and 100ms was still causing these buffer issues.

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