Start of audio files gets skipped

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Hi, since about a month the first two or three seconds of each audio file are skipped. This happens both when I play a single song or when playing a full album. I haven’t changed anything in my setup, so I’m unsure on how to troubleshoot this.

My files are stored on a synology NAS and I use a Chord Mojo dac with a USB connection. But when playing a file on a SD card plugged into the vero over the vero analog out the problem persists.

My log file playing sample-mp3-files-Symphony No.6 (1st movement).mp3 is over here:
https://paste.kodi.tv/refezayara

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Try setting keep audio alive.

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Thanks, but that didn’t solve it, new log with keep audio device alive at always:

https://paste.kodi.tv/jakehozuse

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We need full logs. Please use the log uploader in MyOSMC or grab-logs -A.

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here you are: https://paste.osmc.tv/xewigupemu

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Have you had any chance to look into the logs? Any other information I can give?

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Apologies. Real life has been getting in the way. You have not been forgotten.

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Few suggestions to try -

  1. Have you tried other MP3s from a different sources and different bit rates ? The logs show ffmpeg having some sort of problem with ‘float headers’ for the MP3s (I’m not sure what this really means?)

  2. Have you tried enabling/disabling ‘passthrough’ ? If passthrough is enabled then the your chorus D/A should convert the MP3 to an analog signal. If passthrough is disabled, then the kodi player should convert the MP3 to PCM and pass that to your chorus D/A which should convert the PCM data to analog.

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@grahamh Thanks for the assurance :slight_smile:

@thechrisgregory I removed the dac and directly used the 3.5mm analog output of the vero, that did not help. Thanks for your point re MP3s: the problem seems to be related to the file format, I tried a couple of FLACs, no issues found so far. I’ll try and find if can out if it’s related to particular bitrates.

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… and whether this is CBR or VBR. mediainfo is a good tool to check the current details.

In your logs I see

Output configuration: Optimized ===> Default: Best match

‘Best match’ is what we suggest but ‘optimized’ should have no effect meanwhile afaIk.

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If you start a song and press the Left button on the remote to go back to the start of the song, does this allow to play the start of the file or does it also get skipped that way?

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I have the very same problem. :frowning:

None of the previous suggestions worked for me (keep alive, audio output configuration, fixed sampling rate, etc.). It does affect all audio formats: flac, mp3, ogg, m4a. And it doesn’t depend on sampling rate neither, cbr/vbr, and any sampling and bitrate are affected.