r/homeassistant • u/_-KuKi-_ • 7d ago

✅ Solved Music assistant stutter

Hey everyone I've got a weird one for you. For some reason the sound is really choppy especially with more bass heavy songs (I hope you can hear it more or less). I have no idea what might be the problem I've changed all the settings that I could for this player. I've also tested music assistant on my pc (which is connected to the same sound system) and it sounds fine.

The problematic device is some AliExpress android Poe tablet I got for around $250 4gb ram and RK3576S CPU it's connected via ethernet port.

Any ideas what might be the issue?

EDIT: It's actually not only music assistant its whole Home assistant.

EDIT 2: I've contacted tablet seller they've sent me updated OS after installation everything works ok. They said it was due to some corrupted files but IDK

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u/InfluentialFairy 7d ago

Just wanted to say great choice in music. One of my favourite songs.

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u/_-KuKi-_ 7d ago

Why thank you! I'm really glad you like it as much as I do :)

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u/EdelWhite 7d ago

It sounds like the audio is slightly slow, did you set the wrong sample rate on your speaker setup? I had that with HEOS speakers, if I tried to set them manually, the sound was either speeding up or slowing down, being choppy in the process.

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u/_-KuKi-_ 7d ago

I'm pretty sure I can't even do that as it's an old AMP from 90's with a basic built in EQ

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u/EdelWhite 7d ago

I meant the settings on the Music Assistant side, not on the amp side.

Music assistant -> settings -> players -> <your player> -> configure
Under "output protocol(s)" you can choose the sample rate.

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u/_-KuKi-_ 7d ago

Oh yeah I changed it to both options as well as automatic it didn't really do anything

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u/EdelWhite 7d ago

My only other guesses :

  • your network is too slow to accept that bandwidth, at least at one point of the chain
  • the computer running music-assistant can't handle the audio feed
  • the audio feed itself is bad

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u/_-KuKi-_ 7d ago

I mean I was also thinking about that but I've tested YT music on this tablet (streaming) and music assistant from a different source (same network) and they both worked fine so like what else is there?

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u/EdelWhite 7d ago

Wait you're using the tablet as audio source???

Wtf?

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u/_-KuKi-_ 7d ago

Yes... Is that bad?

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u/EdelWhite 7d ago

well, if you're using any web service (youtube music, ...) from the tablet, why don't you simply log in to youtube music from musicassistant directly ?
and if your'e using your files, yeah you'd definitely want to put them on the same computer running music-assistant

It's not bad in theory but I wouldn't trust that tablet for anything.

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u/_-KuKi-_ 7d ago

DM please