This issues started I believe around three months ago, not exactly sure as since April I havn’t used my computer a ton. When my music player goes to the next track, the entire system hangs for anywhere from half a second to a second and a half. This doesn’t always happen, but 90% of the time. It’s nothing to do with the music files, as I can skip back and forth and get different amount of freeze. This behaviour has been noted with multiple music players. Strawberry, Quod libet, and VLC. It shouldn’t be a disk speed issue, as my music collection is on a different drive than the operating system. If I set Strawberry to output directly to the soundcard video with ALSA rather than go to pipewire, the issue is improved, but still present.
Any advice for how I would begin to diagnose the issue is greatly appreciated.
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██████████████████ ████████ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
██████████████████ ████████ Host: MS-7850 1.0
████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.19.17-2-MANJARO
████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 5 hours, 5 mins
████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 2162 (pacman), 17 (flatpak)
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.1.16
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 1920x1080
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: GNOME 44.3
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: Mutter
████████ ████████ ████████ WM Theme: CustomAccentColors
████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: Adw-dark [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: Papirus-Dark-Maia [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-4770 (8) @ 3.400GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M
GPU: Intel HD Graphics
Memory: 4534MiB / 32017MiB