I’m not sure when this started happening, I think it’s been about 5 days? I’ve been ill so I haven’t been at my laptop much.
I have a Framework 13 running Fedora 43 with Gnome. I use a MP3 player application (DeaDBeeF) to listen to my music library. I usually listen on Bluetooth but I still have audio stuttering problems when I connect my headphones by wire. It’s not the headphones, I tried buying new ones and there’s still stuttering. It’s also not DeaDBeeF, I tried using a different MP3 player (Tauon) and had the same issue. I’ve tried restarting Pipewire and that didn’t fix anything. I have no idea what it could possibly be…
Welcome to Fedora @sigalit480
Have you installed the Multimedia plugins?
You might also check if you get the same stuttering with VLC-Media Player. Just to be sure it is not failing because of the codecs.
Strange. I just listened to a bunch of wav files last night using Parole Media Player and it worked just fine.
Thank you for the welcome! I’ve been using Fedora for a year and a half, I love it but this problem has been irritating to say the least.
I do have the multimedia plugins installed, I ran the given command.
When testing a MP3 in VLC, something weird happened. At first it wasn’t playing any audio, and I used the playback bar which made some crackling noises until I brought it back to the beginning and now VLC’s playing the audio with no stuttering whatsoever. DeaDBeeF’s still stuttering pretty badly though.
@coonmanx I personally listen to high-quality MP3s, so the file type could be the problem…? I dunno.
VLC is know to use additional codecs while install the package.
Let me see … there are more codecs you can test.
From which source are you installing DeaDBeeF ? If it is a flat pack you need probably to configure the variables, to take the correct codec.
Sounds like it might be an issue with DeaDBeeF. Right now I just pulled up Strawberry Music Player and that seems to work well. I have used VLC as well. So now I basically have three different players that I can choose from. If you are interested then install Parole Media Player, Strawberry Music Player or the both of them. I am not using any flat packs…
And BTW, both are supposed to work with mp3 files as well.
@ilikelinux DeaDBeeF’s not a flatpak. I use the SourceForge install. I just updated to the latest DeaDBeeF version (1.10.0) and stuttering still occurs.
@coonmanx I mentioned in the OP that the music player Tauon has the same problem. But Strawberry seems to not be stuttering so I guess it’s fine…? Thank you for the help!
Did you compile the source yourself? Install the version offered by rpmfusion.
I just downloaded it from the zip on SourceForge and it works as an application. I feel better with Strawberry as recommended by @coonmanx honestly, I tried the new DeaDBeeF to see if it still stuttered and the UI was uh. Really disgusting.
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I hope it’s ok to double-post on this forum, it’s been years since I used a forum and I don’t know proper etiquette here, lol.
I’ve found that joining a voice call on Discord causes some sort of problem that causes Strawberry to start stuttering…