[desktop-discuss] Choppy audio on decent hardware

[Shawn Walker]

Matthew Stevenson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can play mp3 audio though Rhythmbox fine, the only problem is that it momentarily pauses when I do thinks like moving windows around, alt-tabbing between windows, switching tabs in Firefox, clicking the mouse, opening a new folder in nautilus, and anything that causes CPU spikes. It also does this if I use Totem. What could be the cause of it, and how can it be prevented?
> 
> My hardware is a - 2GHz amd64 CPU with 2GB RAM - shouldn't have any problems at all playing music. I've been using OpenSolaris for about 6 months, hoping with each /dev release that this issue would go away, but it's still there for me in 2009.06 (snv_117).
> 
> Any ideas?

Are you using Compiz?  If so, have you tried disabling it?

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker