Sound pauses while playing flac files

Hello,

I have the exact same problem also with VLC 3.0.18 Vetinari on Windows 11 (HP Pavilion).

Before the update (done yesterday), everything was perfect and now as soon as I plat a .flac file, the audio is laggy or "broken" every 1/2 second, making the music awful... MP3/MP4 files play fine however and none of my settings have changed AFAIK.

Spent the better part of this morning messing with everything trying to figure this out, came to the conclusion it was a VLC update I did a few days ago. This is happening on both PC and on my phone, two entirely separate copies of the .flac file that independently had no problem last week.

Problem is definitely the player. Using eg musicolet on my phone the sound is fine.

On PC at least, the stuttering is always in the same place in the file. If the playback is about 5 or more seconds before where the stutter occurs, then the music just skips over a .2 or so second part of the music. If I move the playback just before where the stutter occurs (eg 1 second before), there's a hard minipause before it continues on.

Edit: Devices are Windows 10 and Samsung Galaxy S21

VLC is my go-to media player for FLAC files, so I spend quite a bit of time with it on MacOS amd64 - 2 different laptops with my MBP13 having the better kit between them - and also on my 14"M1, and IOS.
After the update to 3.0.18 I started to get the pause / dropout on specific tracks, but this bug could be demonstrated repeatedly across all of my MacBooks with the same tracks that exposed/triggered(?) the bug. I managed downgrading to 3.0.17.3 and the bug is gone on my MBPs only to find that my IPhone updated automagically to 3.0.18 and now the bug is back and there is no way to downgrade. I only run VLC on my IPhone beatbox and it was working flawlessly until the 3.0.18 update. I used Audacity to proof the affected files on MacOS and VOX on IOS, but I like the VLC UX better in any case. Hope this info helps to track down the flaw, bug, call-it-what-you-will. I do want to thank the VLC devs for an awesome app!

MO

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I just tried on the Android application (v3.5.3) and the bug is happening too. I played the same file on the native music player and it was playing fine, proving it's not a corrupt file but a bug in VLC. Hope it helps

marked this issue as a duplicate of #27454 (closed)

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marked this issue as related to #27454 (closed)

It also happens in Windows 7. It seems to be unrelated to sample frequency and bit depth of the file. Changing the cache size does not affect the issue. Downgrading to 3.0.17.4 is the current workaround.

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VLC is broken since months

Use their nightly version, it has a nice new interface too, and no bugs.

I don't get how they can keep a huge breaking bug like this in vlc from MONTHS.

Literally makes the whole app useless for a majority of users...

70% of my FLAC files have skipping bugs every 20sec or so.. unusable. 4.0 works tho

At least revert 3.0.18 and makes everyone go back to an older version, anything

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Sound pauses while playing flac files

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