HDMI out signal takes too long, or doesn't come until reboot

[nerd]

Hey @PluggedIn,

Remember when I said I would push for it? I pushed myself.

The plugin is built, submitted, and live in the store as beta:

[PLUGIN] Audio Keepalive (Volumio 4) - Seven years, one toggle, zero lost seconds

Dear Volumionauts, Some of you have been here long enough to remember GitHub issue #1668 - “First couple of seconds of each track is always cut off with some DACs.” Filed in December 2018 for Volumio 2 and still not resolved. Open ever since. Old enough to have started primary school, learned to read, written a letter asking when it will be fixed, and received no reply. The problem is simple. When Volumio stops playback, MPD closes the ALSA device. Your receiver loses the audio stream. When yo…

Since it is beta, the plugin store will not show it unless you enable test mode. Go to:

http://volumio.local/dev

Scroll down to “Plugins Test Mode” and click TRUE. Then go to the plugin store in the Volumio UI and search for Audio Keepalive. Install it, enable “Keep audio device active”, save, and reboot.

After reboot, play an album. Tell me if those first two seconds are still missing.

You are the man with the Onkyo TX-RZ50, the rear HDMI input, CEC disabled, and the self-declared inability to tolerate missing music. This is your moment. Break it for me.

Kind Regards,