Spotify, freetube, youtube website, either it’s a streaming issue or an audio playback issue. Whenever my cpu is working too hard audio playback stutters and delays making it unlistenable. Actually some games have alright audio so I think it’s a streaming issue. Anyway I want to know how to prioritise sound streaming or playback cpu in linux?


Does it stutter if you open Pavucontrol? I’ve seen a couple setups where Pipewire stutters when pipewire-pulse is used, as does Pavucontrol.
(In some setups this only happened when the volume indicator is enabled in Pavucontrol and disappeared when it was switched off.)