Audio jumps during playback with FLAC files

[FredFrin]

Hi,

I've installed OpenELEC on my brand new NUC5i5RYH.
My music collection consists entirely of FLAC files, which
are on a 2.5" SATA HDD inside the NUC. The NUC has
masses of resources - Intel i5 Core CPU + 8GB RAM.

Yet during playback I'm experiencing jumps. The jumps
are NOT in the source files, and seem to occur at random.
I've noticed this with the following setups:

OpenELEC 5.0.8 AND 5.95.1
- NUC analogue (3.5mm jack) output attached to PC speakers (no passthrough)
- NUC digital HDMI output going to AVR (passthrough enabled)

CPU load is less than 1%, RAM usage ~ 1.2GB (as shown by top), so plenty
of spare capacity there.

Code:

Mem: 1256640K used, 6801156K free, 212736K shrd, 49328K buff, 893540K cached
CPU: 0.3% usr 0.2% sys 0.0% nic 99.4% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% sirq
Load average: 0.25 0.22 0.21 2/129 863
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
681 676 root S 1768m 22.4 1 0.5 /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin --standalone -fs --lircdev /run/lirc/lir
649 643 root S 63180 0.7 2 0.0 /usr/bin/Xorg vt01 -s 0 -noreset -allowMouseOpenFail
615 1 root S 23540 0.2 3 0.0 /usr/bin/smbd --configfile=/run/samba/smb.conf

A friend suggested turning off Pulse Audio - but I believe this is done by default in OpenELEC,
not sure ...

Any suggestions?

[Grael]

Try the example 4 advancedsettings.xml file at the end of this page.
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache

I know it says "video cache" and "network" but the example 4 config defines a memory buffering for local files too.
I don't have any more problem with my music since I use it.

[FredFrin]

Brilliant - did as you said & not had any sound issues since!
Thanks.