Clicking throughout music

[ryangodammit]

Not sure if I'm in the right forum, it's hard to tell where my problem is.

I'm running picoreplayer on a raspi3.

When playing music, after about 15 mins or so the music develops clicks throughout.

I am using the app Spotty to stream spotify and picoreplayer is running squeezelite, lms and shairport. I am not running the shairport app on lms, although I have in the past. I thought this was the issue, so I killed it, but it doesn't seem to have helped.

I thought maybe it was because it was trying to sync to another picoreplayer in the house so I killed that too but it doesn't seem to have fixed it.

The clicking generally continues after I pause the music, in fact it generally continues after a lms reboot, although stops after a full rasberrypi reboot.

Any ideas?

[d6jg]

How are You outputting from the Pi? HDMI, analog, Dac etc?
It’s usually the sound card chip,
You could schedule an overnight reboot

[ryangodammit]

How are You outputting from the Pi? HDMI, analog, Dac etc?
It’s usually the sound card chip,
You could schedule an overnight reboot

It’s a hifiberry amp+

[d6jg]

It’s a hifiberry amp+

In which case the only thing you can really do is schedule a reboot.

It is under Tweaks in Beta mode on piCorePlayer

[ryangodammit]

In which case the only thing you can really do is schedule a reboot.

It is under Tweaks in Beta mode on piCorePlayer

Is there something specific causing it?

[d6jg]

Is there something specific causing it?

Yes but unfortunately it is most likely the DAC chip on the Pi or AMP+ getting its knickers in a twist. I have had it on a Pi3 with a USB DAC. A reboot clears it.
An audio electronics expert will give you a fuller answer.

[ryangodammit]

Yes but unfortunately it is most likely the DAC chip on the Pi or AMP+ getting its knickers in a twist. I have had it on a Pi3 with a USB DAC. A reboot clears it.
An audio electronics expert will give you a fuller answer.

I might try asking around at hifiberry. They’re pretty helpful

[wl1]

I might try asking around at hifiberry. They’re pretty helpful

When I first installed a AMP2+ (I thnk) - I had this issue. It was only on one speaker - and I could see the driver jump as it clicked.

I measured with a voltmeter and got had a slowly building up DC voltage - until the driver jumped and clicked, and repeated.

I reported it to HifiBery -I got a replacement for free. Been OK since - this scenario sounds similar for you.....hope it helps.

[ryangodammit]

When I first installed a AMP2+ (I thnk) - I had this issue. It was only on one speaker - and I could see the driver jump as it clicked.

I measured with a voltmeter and got had a slowly building up DC voltage - until the driver jumped and clicked, and repeated.

I reported it to HifiBery -I got a replacement for free. Been OK since - this scenario sounds similar for you.....hope it helps.

Thanks man. I posted on hifiberry’s forum and they got in touch and said they had trouble with an early batch and are sending me a free replacement. Awesome customer service. Can’t reccomend them highly enough