Audio only stutter

[Nachteule]

(7th Apr, 2018 10:47 PM)Roy Terhaar Wrote:  

(7th Apr, 2018 10:12 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  @Roy Terhaar, did you ever tried to play music without those services in the background?

Maybe you've a bandwith problem (all data is going through one USB2 port)

Yes I tested shutting those services down one at a time until all were down. It does not seem to have any impact.
The stutter itself is something more like a pause (not the same when you have buffer underrun issues), where the track stops for milliseconds upto few seconds sometimes and then continues from where it stops. So it does not seem that I am 'missing' something from the track that I play.
I also tried playing with VideoPlayer instead of PaPlayer, also this does not make a difference; listening experience reveals same stutter.
VideoPlayer however uses much more CPU; CPU goes higher than 100%(!?) while still playing...

Can the stutter be kernel related?

Did it ever worked without stuttering? Maybe it is a 4.14 kernel issue