Audio artefacts at start of song in playlist

[LTSCommerce]

I'm wondering if this is to do with playlists containing songs with different bitdepth/rate

There's the classic tic artefacts that imply digital signal issues, only at the start of the song

Is there some kind of cross fade happening that's not handling mixed bitrates?

FYI I noticed it on this playlist

https://play.qobuz.com/playlist/6754429

[iamdb]

Thanks I'll check out that playlist. There's no crossfade, but it could be related to the gapless playback.

• If using Pipewire, it may need a larger buffer to handle that with your audio interface.
• It could also be in gstreamer and an issue that is hopefully corrected in the most recent version I'm working on.

If you're willing/able, the cursive branch has the latest, but you would have to compile it locally.

[LTSCommerce]

Yes I am wondering if this is a pipewire issue. Happy to test some alternative configs to try to tune this out. I've upped the pipewire quality to 192khz as I'm using a Steinberg UR22C external DAC so I'm guessing standard configs/buffers might not be ideal.

More than happy to test the latest branch.

Any chance you could give some instructions for someone who is tech savvy doesn't know Rust?

I'm on Fedora 38 if that helps

[iamdb]

For Pipewire, the primary place to make adjustments is in the min-quantum part of the config.

You can try doubling that and see if it fixes the issue.

To compile the app should be straightforward assuming Rust can find Gstreamer ok.

Install Gstreamer in Fedora:

dnf install gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools gstreamer1-doc gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras

Follow the instructions for installing Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/iamdb/hifi.rs.git

Checkout cursive branch: git checkout cursive

Build the app: cargo build --bin hifi-rs --release

Or install: cargo install --path ./hifirs

[LTSCommerce]

Thanks - have upped the min quantum, turns out I had it lower than default - think I followed some dodgy guide. Testing now and no crackles so far

Will try out the new version soon and report back

[LTSCommerce]

think this was pipewire. Upped the quantum config and its fine now