After updating my MacOS to 12.7.3, I discovered that enjoying music (principally MP3 information) is strongly impaired: I get frequent “dropout”, i.e. a brief pause of perhaps half a second.
After some experimenting, I collected the next observations:
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The occurances typically, BUT NOT ALWAYS, appear to happen at precisely the time I do one thing which updates a big a part of the display screen: As an illustration switching within the net browser to a distinct browser textual content editor tab, or switching to a distinct MacOS Area. Nevertheless, this doesn’t occur on a regular basis, and the dropouts often additionally happen once I’m not even touching my MacBook.
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Considering that this may very well be associated as a result of want of swapping, I checked the ActivityMonotor and located for the CPU, that I’m sometimes utilizing 12GB out of 20. The information for “Cached Information” exhibits round 4GB, “SwapUsed” exhibits 20MB.
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I discovered that the frequency of the dropouts additionally depend upon what software I take advantage of to play music:
Foobar 2000 : Maybe 15-20 occurances per hour
IINA : Maybe 10-15 occurances
VLC : Maybe 5-10 occurances
Apparently, I didn’t get thus far any dropouts in any respect when utilizing Apple’s builtin Quicktime Participant, or when I’m enjoying music from YouTube, utilizing Google Chrome.
After all I may persist with Quicktime and simply do not analysis the difficulty additional, however for varied causes, I like and need to use the options current in i.e. Foobar 2000. Additionally I did not have any playback issues earlier than the model replace.
