{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PromyLOPh/pianobar/issues/550","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PromyLOPh/pianobar/issues/550/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PromyLOPh/pianobar/issues/550/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PromyLOPh/pianobar/issues/550/events","html_url":"https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar/issues/550","id":112863826,"number":550,"title":"Scratchy Audio","user":{"login":"KenMacD","id":8961,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8961?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD","html_url":"https://github.com/KenMacD","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KenMacD/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-10-22T18:35:22Z","updated_at":"2015-10-22T18:35:22Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hello,\r\n\r\nDo you have any instructions on how to improve the audio output? I'm getting artifacts during playback. They almost sound like a bad audio cable, like a short drop-out.\r\n\r\nI'm running Arch Linux, using Pulseaudio.\r\n\r\nMy config has `audio_quality = high`. I tried downloading one of the aac files and playing it with `ffplay`, they play perfectly clear. That seems like it should eliminate the possibility of it being network and typical playback issues.\r\n\r\nI also notice that the pulseaudio process uses more CPU when playing a file through `pianobar` vs `ffplay` (5% vs 2.5%). The cpu is not pegged during either though (under 10% total), and I've tried with both `pulseaudio` and `pianobar` at nice level `-19` with no effect.\r\n\r\nMy `/etc/libao.conf` contains: `default_driver=pulse`.\r\n\r\nI'm using the latest master branch.\r\n\r\nIs there anything you can suggest?"}}