firefox - My PC causes Google Music to stutter
2014-07
Tomek Buszewski
I recently got intereseted in Google Music, but I have a problem (it seems that only me, since my friends aren't experiencng anything like this). When I play songs on one tab, and browse others, sometimes (mostly when I refresh/open new tab) I hear stutter, music loops very short snippet for a secound or two, then resumes.
I tried uninstalling Flash, installing older version (11 and 13), disabling the Chrome flash plugin, listening to music on other browsers. Nothing helps.
Best solution so far is running Music on Opera and browsing using Chrome, but even now I occassionally encounter the problem.
I tried Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE. Each up-to-date. My PC is Toshiba P75-A7200, Windows 8.1.
Joshua Nurczyk
I've tried using Amarok, mplayer, and VLC on Kubuntu 9.04, and with every one, the audio that plays will randomly stutter (pause for a second and resume). It can happen once per song, ten times per song, or not at all per song. This is with MP3s. I have not checked specifically with WMA or OGG files, as most of my music is MP3.
I have tried changing the driver order, but it always occurs. It seems to recognize the card correctly, so I don't know what the problem could be.
It happens whether music is the only thing playing, so CPU usage hovers around 10%, or when the CPU is around 80% while doing things. Flash videos in Firefox work just fine, no stuttering, and VOB files don't stutter either.
Does anyone have any idea why this is?
EDIT: This is an AMD Sempron computer with a K8M800 chipset (I believe, not at the computer at the moment). It has UniChrome video and a basic onboard card (that previously worked perfectly on 7.04 and 8.04).
Further edit: Turning off ktorrent and ensuring that the audio program is the only thing running (including killing apache, et al) makes the audio stutter less often, usually, but doesn't remove the problem.
Another edit: Apparently, even though I looked and didn't see PulseAudio before, it was chosen now when I looked. This is also contrary to everything I found online saying that Ubuntu used it but not Kubuntu, even on the Ubuntu site. I changed it to "VIA8237 with ALC655" and it is working better. It has stuttered some but nowhere near as bad as before. For the moment I will accept an answer.
matthews
Do you have a lot of hard drive activity while playing music? Since you're streaming music from the disk, a lot of other use of that disk could cause this.
The other likely culprit is that there's something wrong with your sound backend. Did Kubuntu make the switch to PulseAudio? I've heard a lot of horror stories about it -- if it did you might want to try switching to ALSA.
Mark Ackerman
installed mozilla-plugin-vlc worked for me in Kubuntu YEAH fewwww ! Just that simple and might want to try vlc-plugin-pulse too, Good Luck