Music Stutters Across All Players

**SPARTAN-118** · November 6th, 2011

No matter what audio player I use, be it Amarok or Audacious, I get playback stuttering. I mainly notice this when I click on something within Firefox, because that's the application I have open the most.

IMO, Amarok's interface is cluttered and difficult to use, so I tried to go back to Banshee (after using it in GNOME). Unfortunately, if the GTK+ Appearance theme is set to oxygen-gtk, Banshee fails to load at all. If set to Raleigh, it loads, but doesn't work. So, I tried Audacious.

Now I find that, despite Audacious claiming to have a "small footprint," I still get stuttering. It's not as bad as Amarok's, but it's noticeable. It's less than Amarok's stuttering, at least.

EDIT: Amarok is the only music player on my system that works with my keyboard's media keys. Therefore, if somebody could help me stop Amarok from constantly and painfully stuttering when I click a link, load a page, or close/reopen a tab in Firefox, it'd be greatly appreciated!

**SPARTAN-118** · November 9th, 2011

I just realized that it's Firefox; apparently GTK+ applications cause the stuttering. In rekonq, it's fine. However, I don't like being limited like this. I really enjoy Firefox (one of the main reasons being the ability to sync bookmarks using Xmarks or the built-in Firefox Sync. AFAIK, rekonq has no support for anything like this).

Does anybody know how to get GTK+ apps/Firefox to stop the stuttering?

**inobe** · November 10th, 2011

sounds like a codecs prob or resource lag!

have a look at your sys monitor when this happens.

**jmate24** · November 10th, 2011

it is a resource lag because i have had the same problem with ubuntu and now i use lubuntu and the problem went away.

**inobe** · November 10th, 2011

it would be interesting seeing the system specs.

**SPARTAN-118** · November 10th, 2011

*facepalm*

That would have been a good idea...
I can't try it out now, but perhaps later today I'll look at the System Monitor.

For now, here are my specs. I don't know how to view them in Kubuntu, so I'll just name 'em off by heart...