Thanks for your ideas! I didn't know nmon, interesting tool. But
unfortunately it shows nothing unusual when a glitch happens,
everything seems to be in a steady state: ~5% CPU load and no "Huge
Pages". Also, there are no dmesg messages during playback at all.
Since low volume output has no
Does the playback file exist on a slow storage device? I have a few
usb sticks that pause with cd quality wav files because of the slow
I/O of the device. But the same file compressed to flac or mp3 on the
same storage device will play without pauses. Or the cd quality file
on any "faster"
