Audio Player Stops Working

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Good day,

I am new to Linux. I built a new computer using an ASUS Prime H610M-E D4, Intel I5 12400 Processor, Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD, G.Skill 8GB memory. I installed the latest version of Mint Cinnamon 21. All seems well so far but one problem I don't know how to resolve is a problem with two audio players, RhythmBox and QMMP. I listen to internet radio a lot while working at the computer. When I start either of these players, they play fine for about 15 to 30 minutes then stop playing as though I hit the stop button. If I click the play button, they start again and play for roughly the same time then stop again.

There is nothing I can see in the power management settings that would be doing this. I ran Cinnamon 20.3 on another computer and did not have this problem. I first noticed it with the installed RhythmBox player, then I installed QMMP and found the same problem with it.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

[Cosmo.]

Boot the live system for Mint 21 and test the issue with Rhythmbox.

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Thanks for the replies. As I am new to Linux, can you tell me where to find the settings that will adjust this? I have looked in the power management tab but the settings there only deal with the monitor and and system for inactivity periods of which he system is set to "never." I don't see these settings for the audio players themselves.

I don't know if this could have anything to do with buffering or not as with my Windows machine, if the internet slows, the Winamp player will buffer until it receives the signal and continues to play. When RyhthmBox and QMMP players stop, they don't try to reconnect. It is as if I hit the stop button and stays in that state unless I hit the play button or close the app.

Thank you.

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To the best of my ability, I have troubleshot audio issues both on Mint and Ubuntu which share a base kernel and it seems something broke in the last update. For myself, both ubuntu and mint have a no sound problem and I am not sure how to find the issue myself. Any help would be appreciated which I would love so that my music or music could be enjoyed or I could listen to an audiobook.

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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.10 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: H81M-S2PH serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F2 date: 08/05/2013
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-4330 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3492 high: 3493 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 3492
2: 3492 3: 3492 4: 3493 bogomips: 27935
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: VGA-1
empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
active: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c82
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915,nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3200x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 847x286mm (33.3x11.3")
s-diag: 894mm (35.2")
Monitor-1: HDMI-2 mapped: HDMI-A-2 pos: primary,left model: HP 23tm
serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 size: 509x286mm (20.0x11.3")
diag: 584mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: VGA-1-1 mapped: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell 1708FP
serial: <filter> res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 96 size: 338x270mm (13.3x10.6")
diag: 433mm (17") modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: NV137 v: 4.3 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-46-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR922X Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
v: kernel bus-ID: 05:01.0 chip-ID: 168c:0029 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp5s1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 130.25 GiB (4.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1001FALS-00J7B1
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0K05
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARS-00MVWB0
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: AB50
scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC49 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 47.74 GiB (5.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.4 MiB (1.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 56.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0
Repos:
Packages: 2684 apt: 2680 flatpak: 4
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https://muug.ca/mirror/linuxmint/packages vanessa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 255 Uptime: 1d 1h 43m wakeups: 0 Memory: 11.58 GiB
used: 5.8 GiB (50.1%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.3.13

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LoL yeah, just a little bit more troubleshooting, and the issue was resolved...check the audio output setting. It turned out my specific issue was I wasn't using Line Out setting.