Triode wrote: 
> I would google for this specific issue: "ALSA snd_pcm_hw_delay:514
> SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DELAY failed" this is happening within the alsa library,
> not within squeezelite and I don't really think tuning lots of
> squeezelite params is going to help.

On the Vortexbox I get no such errors diagnostics.  The sound is fine
for several minutes, then crackle, dropout, and then fine again.  

I fully understand that the authors of a bit of software can't possibly
solve all problems, there are far too many variables involved, but there
must be some form of methodical approach one can take, isn't there?  For
what it's worth my brief google on diagnostics from my other (ubuntu)
system, as suggested, has not yet helped.  I'll keep looking.

I'm aware this seems a bit too much like a moan against the author,
Triode. That isn't my intention at all.   It's just that one sits down
to some serious listening and all of a sudden the sound breaks up for no
apparent reason, and there seems no way to find out why, which is most
frustrating.  But there must be a a way, isn't there?

I am also keenly aware that my IT background is mostly not real-time
(except for a dalliance with real-time systems analysing experimental
data on a Honeywell DDP 516 many years ago) but such unpredictability
seems  strange in the modern world.


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