[SOLVED] Sound cracks while playing music

[hello123]

Dear all,

i have just complete installing the snake oil OS , while I tried to play the music via iPhone MPD player apps , the sound cracks , may I know what’s the problem and how to resolve it ?

[agent_kith]

Dear all,

i have just complete installing the snake oil OS , while I tried to play the music via iPhone MPD player apps , the sound cracks , may I know what’s the problem and how to resolve it ?

What's the

• Spec of your PC
  
• Resolution of music you're trying (44.1, 96 kHz, etc?)
  
• Is music stored on a NAS or on a local device
  
• What DAC
  

[hello123]

baby girl names with lynnDear all,

i have just complete installing the snake oil OS , while I tried to play the music via iPhone MPD player apps , the sound cracks , may I know what’s the problem and how to resolve it ?

What's the

• Spec of your PC
  
• Resolution of music you're trying (44.1, 96 kHz, etc?)
  
• Is music stored on a NAS or on a local device
  
• What DAC
  

 

Dear agent kith 

The crack sound no matter playing WAV 44.1 or 96k , FLAC or DSD also exist. I am using NAS to store the music file also connect the NAS to DAC via USB and using Kinki studio DAC at the moment. Pretty sure all the component are working fine. 
 
attach photos for your reference. I have already try different version of the MPD , from V17 to V21.8 the issue still exist.

Snakeoil Version
Version1.1.5 (Blind Testing U5)
ActivationFree Edition
OSUbuntu 16.04.2 LTS

CPUArchitecturex86_64
Speed0.000op-mode(s)32-bit, 64-bit
L1 Cache24KCPU(s)4
L2 Cache1024KThread(s)4
L3 CacheNone
ModelIntel® Atom™ CPU C2538 @ 2.40GHz

 

many thanks ,

[agent_kith]

The crack sound no matter playing WAV 44.1 or 96k , FLAC or DSD also exist. I am using NAS to store the music file also connect the NAS to DAC via USB and using Kinki studio DAC at the moment. Pretty sure all the component are working fine. 

This is going to be a difficult one. Your CPU specs look OK, so it's going to be difficult identifying the source of your problem.

Can you play some music, let it crackle for say 1 minute. Then generate a diagnostic file and send it to the email specified? Hopefully there'll be some information captured.

[hello123]

The crack sound no matter playing WAV 44.1 or 96k , FLAC or DSD also exist. I am using NAS to store the music file also connect the NAS to DAC via USB and using Kinki studio DAC at the moment. Pretty sure all the component are working fine. 

This is going to be a difficult one. Your CPU specs look OK, so it's going to be difficult identifying the source of your problem.

Can you play some music, let it crackle for say 1 minute. Then generate a diagnostic file and send it to the email specified? Hopefully there'll be some information captured.

Dear agent kith,

email with diagnostic file already sent to your mail box , thank you  

[agent_kith]

email with diagnostic file already sent to your mail box , thank you  

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Hi,

Got the file yesterday, havn't had time to look into it yet. Sorry!

Will do so tonight and get back to you on what I find.

[agent_kith]

Looks like you're running Snakeoil OS inside a virtual machine. 

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
  Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc. Qemu virtual machine
  Flags: fast devsel

I'm not sure if Atom is good enough to run a VM, but that bridge (440FX) is too slow. Use something more modern, say ICH9 or something. Also make sure your VT-x is turned on in the BIOS
 

Code:

[Mon Jun  3 21:28:45 2019] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:45 2019] ata1.00: cmd e7/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
                                    res 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:50 2019] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:55 2019] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:55 2019] ata1: soft resetting link
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:55 2019] ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:55 2019] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2
[Mon Jun  3 21:28:55 2019] ata1.00: retrying FLUSH 0xe7 Emask 0x4
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:10 2019] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xe7)
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:10 2019] ata1.00: FLUSH failed Emask 0x4
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:15 2019] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:20 2019] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:20 2019] ata1: soft resetting link
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:20 2019] ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:20 2019] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:20 2019] ata1.00: retrying FLUSH 0xe7 Emask 0x4
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:35 2019] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xe7)
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:35 2019] ata1.00: FLUSH failed Emask 0x4
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:35 2019] ata1.00: limiting speed to MWDMA2:PIO3
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:40 2019] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:45 2019] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:45 2019] ata1: soft resetting link
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:45 2019] ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:45 2019] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:45 2019] ata1.00: retrying FLUSH 0xe7 Emask 0x4
[Mon Jun  3 21:29:59 2019] ata1: EH complete

The reason for sound cracking is basically the virtual disk cannot keep up. Identify the reasons for these bottlenecks, and things will work.

Snakeoil OS is designed to run in real time, this can't be done when running in a virtual machine. This is potentially going to affect the SQ, even if you can get rid of the cracking, there is still this mysterious thing called jitter. You can see a shadow of this in cyclictest (Look at the standard deviation).

If you just want to test the sound of Snakeoil, just use the LiveCD. This gives you a working SnakeoilOS environment without first installing.