[15" rMBP] Spotify Stuttering Slightly?

[jas07]

Rather random one I know but is Spotify slightly stuttering or anyone else on a 15" rMBP? I cant understand it, load on the machine is low etc but even whilst typing this when the sound stutters the typing lags at the same time and then catches up 😕

Any ideas / suggestions welcome as I'm baffled!

 

[SilentLoner]

Rather random one I know but is Spotify slightly stuttering or anyone else on a 15" rMBP? I cant understand it, load on the machine is low etc but even whilst typing this when the sound stutters the typing lags at the same time and then catches up 😕

Any ideas / suggestions welcome as I'm baffled!

If you mean it sounds like it crackles when it stutters then this happens to me too.

 

[jas07]

Yeah it sort of crackles, rather annoying!

 

[SilentLoner]

Any fixes from apple or spotify?

 

[jas07]

Well ive disabled auto graphics switching and it appears to have resolved all my problems!

Suspect its just a driver issue that will be corrected in a future update.

 

[harry454]

I've had this with normal itunes playing today and yesterday. Its weird.

 

[earthianhimself]

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4149309?start=780&tstart=0

had this issue too, gave the rMBP back to the store and they handed me a new one. problem was occuring again, then did a clean install of ML via usb-stick, problem solved until now. don't know why and how, but its gone.

 

[dusk007]

sounds like a hardware issue to me. The soundcard having problems. Does it appear when you use digital audio out? Is it only the speakers or analog out too?

 

[earthianhimself]

headphone jack as well as the internal speakers, don't know if audio via hdmi has the same issue, not tested it. here is a sample of a 400Hz sinus-wave sound to test the output: http://users.skynet.be/fa046054/home/P22/track55.mp3

 

[iDutchman]

same issue here! Although not consistent

 

[jas07]

Have others that have this issue tried disabling the auto switching GFX? Its completely resolved it for me, ive been listening to Spotify all day and its not stuttered once, enabled AutoSwitching again and it stuttered within 30 seconds.

 

[iDutchman]

Have others that have this issue tried disabling the auto switching GFX? Its completely resolved it for me, ive been listening to Spotify all day and its not stuttered once, enabled AutoSwitching again and it stuttered within 30 seconds.

I did. It definitely works. But it's just a optimisation issue as my iMac G4 and G5 could also run Spotify without a hick up. So does the Black MacBook I own (64MB Intel GMA 950 Integrated card)

Spotify has not got a retina update anyways. Also, I believe a lot of optimisation still has to be done for these machines.

It all works great, but I something run into some non-issue but weird problems. 😉.


Let me tell you this. I played a few intensive games on the Bootcamp partition and really smooth as butter. Best experience I've had. (better than de 2010 iMac 2.93Ghz i7 16GB I had)

The system is plenty powerful. Just optimisation required.
First gen owner issues people 🙄

 

[conkerbot]

I had these issues with iTunes. It turns out that Safari was having crazy memory leaks (2 tabs, 8GB memory used for "Safari web content", that kinda thing). It sounds like the kinda thing that reinstalling ML may well fix, but I just got lazy and installed chrome and the issue disappeared. I also notice if I work my machine very hard while on integrated graphics the audio can sometimes stutter, but as soon as I set it to dedicated they all disappear.

 

[stevelam]

same issue here! Although not consistent

i've had audio crackling several months ago but it hasn't happened since. no idea!