Something's rotten with Deadbeef, too

 As my luck would have it, Deadbeef developed what sounded like a buffering problem soon after I posted the previous blog-entry (about 4pm). By piping its output directly to ALSA, I had bypassed PulseAudio and Pipewire, so neither of them could be the source of the problem, unless one of them contains malware which takes effect whether or not they're being used.

But while listening soon after I got up this morning, Deadbeef didn't have this "buffering" problem for at least an 1.25 hours as of this writing, which is odd since I was listening to the same album yesterday when it was acting up. So, perhaps whatever causes the problem keeps track of the system date/time, and acts up on certain dates/days and/or times. If so, resetting the system clock might fix it.

However, I left the room for a while this morning, and it had stopped playing when I returned, although I hit play and it restarted at the beginning of the track and hasn't had any problems since then. Just strange.