It predominantly affects a Raspberry Pi endpoint fed by wifi but did occur once when playing to a dac connected to the core… Prior to the last few days the system has performed perfectly for several years.
I’ve tried rebooting the core and endpoint. That sometimes helps but not always.
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Does this behavior occur on both local content and streaming content or just one and not the other?
I think this problem was due to congested wifi. I switched the Pi to wired and it has been fine since. For information it affected Tidal/Qobuz and locally stored files.