Can you play music and open/use other programs without audio ever pausing in Linux?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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  • Yes 100% of the time! Never had this issue on Linux
  • Yes, easily fixable issue
  • No, Linux audio prioritization sux!
  • Only when running a real-time kernel
  • Only when running a real-time priority for music program
  • Only when running a real-time priority for both music program and audio server
  • Only when running real-time kernel, and real-time priority of both music program and audio server
  • " " as well as the deadline storage scheduler
  • " " as well as the kyber storage scheduler
  • " " as well as bfq storage scheduler using low_latency option
  • " " as well as noop scheduler
  • " " as well as none storage scheduler
  • Only with the bfq low_latency option with no other changes
  • Only with deadline storage scheduler option and no other changes
  • Only with kyber storage scheduler and no other changes
  • Only with noop or none storage scheduler, no other changes
  • Only without using swap
  • Only with realtime kernel and without swap
  • Only with realtime music program priority and without swap
  • Only with realtime music program and audio server priorities, and without swap
  • Only with realtime kernel, realtime priorities to both music program and audio server, snd without swap
  • Other

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Steamdeck in desktop-mode, listening to music (FLAC-format) from the microSD (ext4) (player is called “Clementine”), never had any issues over headset or Bluetooth.

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Should add that I am writing this while listening to uninterrupted music :slight_smile:

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Yes with a background music player like “Music Player Daemon”

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i’ve had issues with sound not playing at all, but never interruption issues.

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to note that if it’s your youtube player or whatnot who stop when you play something else, that’s not the OS fault but a “feature” of the browser I’m sure you can change in some setting.

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Could anyone using Fedora please test?

I am having more frequent audio pausing using Audacity, but the default Elisa music player also occasionally pauses. I do not have this issue on another system, but it runs debian. I do not recall ever having this issue on any Linux system, until Fedora 38, but have not tested this exact use case before, so it could be an issue with previous releases and nobody has been aware of it until now.