Upgrading hardware to avoid glitches / clicks / pops

james_b

I'm really happy with my rune audio setup using a Raspberry Pi model B, but the playback could be better. I get clicks and pops at least once on most 44.1khz flacs and more than this on 88.2k or 96k flacs but it's just about tolerable. At 192k it's a big problem.

Would switching the Pi model B for a Pi 2 go some way to rectifying this, or would one of the other hardware options be the more powerful device? Is I'd be happy to upgrade to whichever would give me the best playback.

thanks

Beelzebassie

Hmmm... My Pi B+ only uses about 4% of its capacity (USB) while playing 16_44.1 files, and 10% @ 24_96 (over I2S, when using USB it goes up to 45%).

james_b

Beelzebassie wroteHmmm... My Pi B+ only uses about 4% of its capacity (USB) while playing 16_44.1 files, and 10% @ 24_96 (over I2S, when using USB it goes up to 45%).

That's interesting. My problem is presumably elsewhere then. Do you know if using a higher quality SD card might help? Logically I can't really see why as my music is stored on a usb drive but my SD card is a cheap generic one and I can't really identify any other weakness.

I currently have my DAC and my USB HD attached to the same powered USB hub as my wifi dongle only works when plugged directly into the Pi. Could this be a problem?

Beelzebassie

Have you tried monitoring the activity on your Pi?

I use Putty to connect to RuneAudio, and the Linux 'top' command to monitor my Pi.