Slow switching between tracks with new dac

Help and Support
1

I have been testing Volumio on a rp3 just with the headphone out, and it has been working great!

Now I have tried it with a Fosi zd3 dac and switching between tracks is very slow and sometimes just freezes.

I am connecting the dac via usb and the music is on a ubs hard drive both connected directly to to dac.

2

Need some more info as you post is not very clear.

You have connected to your rPi3 USB:

  • A DAC
  • A USB hard drive

Are you using a power hub or external Power source to power the DAC and USB Disc?

Please post a log when you switch between some tracks.

3

The dac is a Fosi audio zd3 that has its own power supply. The usb drive is powered by the rpi. If I switch the output back to the headphone jack, switching between tracks is fast.

4

Also sent log

5

You need to paste the link to the log here, otherwise we are unable to track it down.

I expect the combination of DAC and DISC extracts to much current from your rPi3 causing this strange behavior. Hence we need the log.

Please try to power the DISK via a powered hub or PSU and test again.

6

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try that and report back.

Here is the log: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/tBac0YH.html

7

Please take a clean SD and burn the latest stable version V3.807, Don’t load Beta releases, as your currently running V3.811.
Also don’t install any plugins. First we need to have a stable system.

At least I don’t see any undervoltage errors, but a lot of issues with MPD.

8

Thanks for your help with this. I found the issue: I removed the peppy meter plugin and now the issue is gone.

I had installed that plugin and even though it was enabled, I never could find where it displayed!

Anyway it is all working great now. The only other plugin I have is Amplifier Switch, and seems to be fine.

9

Yes suspected peppy, as a rpi3 needs to work very hard for Peppy.

Glad it is resolved.