Music playback stops at random, Kodi freezes (on LE 11 | RPi4)

    Hi all,

    it started a couple of months ago with a short freeze of playback but got worse and worse over the last weeks/days. Music stops for a couple seconds up to a minute and then continues. Looks like Kodi freezes but nothing is (visually) happening but CPU temperature increases by a couple of °C. I play flac/mp3 from an external SSD connected to the RPi4.

    And I cannot find out why this happens. Before that (whatever that is) it did work just perfectly. /shrug

    You can see a bin-ed debug log here.

    Because it's about music playback I included component specific logging (Audio component and audio/video timing), maybe that helps.

    Any ideas? Thanks so much in advance!

    Best,

    RC

    RPi4, LibreElec 11.0.1, Kodi 20.1

    Well,

    did you check the SSD ?

    Maybe there is a problem and the Pi can't sometimes read the Data from the SSD anymore ?

    SSDs didn't last as long as HDDs did.

    I assume that the SSD is connected with an USB-Cable to the Pi.

    Did you try another USB-Cable and / or another USB-Port on the Pi ?

    Did the SSD get her Power from the Pi or did it have her own power supply ?

    1. Upgrade to the latest stable LE release.
    2. Provide a complete log.
    Please provide a full debug log.

    How to post a log (wiki)

    1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
    2. Restart Kodi
    3. Replicate the problem
    4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

    use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

    Hi guys,

    thank you so much!

    Niceguy The SSD is indeed connected through USB with the RPi4 and also gets its power from it. I ran the Mac version of chkdsk with the SSD: all looks fine. I thought about to much stress for the RPi and checked vcgencmd get_throttled but this gives just the regular 0x0.

    I changed the USB port on the RPi now, let's see if this helps (that would be weird and awesome at the same time ;)).

    Da Flex : sorry, if my log was not a propper one (full debug log from LE but without a restart). Since this issue appears super random, it is hard to replicate "on command". Might be a very long log then - is that still ok if posted as you request?

    I hadn't changed the LE version because all went well for a long time and the issue suddenly appeared sort of. As you mentioned the newer LE version: Has this been a known issue on LE? Then, I'd need a day off for updateing LE and Kodi and everythin (noob alert) :D

    Again, your answers are much appreciated! Thanks!

    Best

    RC