Bug 2429929 - Stutters in kew which uses miniaudio
Summary: Stutters in kew which uses miniaudio
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: miniaudio
Version: 43
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jonathan Wright
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URL: https://github.com/ravachol/kew/issue...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-01-15 12:25 UTC by ravachol
Modified: 2026-01-15 12:40 UTC (History)
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Description ravachol 2026-01-15 12:25:10 UTC
Users are reporting audio stutters in the music player kew, which I am the maintainer of.

I confirmed this problem by installing cinnamon on a qemu VM.

I then made another identical cinnamon VM and there were no stutters.

Mackron, the developer of miniaudio (which uses pulseaudio), made a fork of kew that uses pipewire instead of pulseaudio. I tried it and it had the same problem with stutters, but this time I got lot less stutters both on his forks, and the main branch of kew. The second VM still had no stutters on both.

This seems to be a problem with Fedora because different installs of identical ISOs have either stutters or no stutters. Also, the user who reported the bug solved the problem by changing from Fedora gnome workstation to Fedora cinnamon. But we detected the problem in Cinnamon. So maybe it's an install problem? 

The issue was reported here: https://github.com/ravachol/kew/issues/517

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install cinnamon
2.Install kew. Installation instructions here: https://github.com/ravachol/kew/blob/main/docs/MANUAL-INSTALL-INSTRUCTIONS.md
3.run kew and try to play a song.
Actual Results:
Stutters.

Expected Results:
No stutters.

Additional Information:
I know that kew is not an official package, but it exists on most prominent distros and perhaps there isn't an official package yet because of this stutter problem. It would be nice to solve it. Also, just to inform you that there seems to be a problem with installing pipewire or something related on Fedora.


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