It seems that I got less problems when I tried to record it, but two examples can be heard at around 16 and 28 second marks: https://katiska.dy.fi/temp/music/Strawberry Music Player 2020-10-05 23-46-23.mp4

No spikes in CPU usage, and no other software interfering that I could think of. I get same problems if I use either of my audio solutions (headphones + xonar essence st soundcard or hdmi to external amp)

If I use "direct sound" -setting it's very hard to notice, but there is small skip or stutter with flacs (around 3 second mark when average bitrate is still going up). I can't hear it clearly with all songs, but they definitely sound wrong (few millisecond skip, hard to estimate)

There's also short pause after pressing "Play" after "Pause".

Played around with settings:
Wrapper audio sink for automatically detected audio sink
-> small stutter
Output to a sound card via Direct Sound
-> no stutter (actually, I think there might be a really small stutter but ~3 seconds after start)
Stream audio to an audio capture device through WASAPI
-> small stutter

and no problems with

.\gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location='Z:/music/Queen.Discography.Flac/Queen - Greatest Hits II (1991) [FLAC]/03 - Radio Ga Ga.flac' ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! directsoundsink

@jonas it occurs every time, regardless if I start playback manually or if it plays next automatically.

There's been some changes since last time I tried (I think it was 0.7.2-55). Back then stuttering happened around 1 second mark, now (0.7.2-211) it happens almost immediately and is less noticable.

Ok, tried that one and problem persists.

This is on Windows 10.

I'm afraid I don't have extra time right now to setup build environment for windows. I can possibly try later when I have extra hour or two to spare.

Do you have working windows ci pipeline that could build binary for testing from such commit?

Every time I start or change song, I get this short jump around 1 second mark.
E.g. Queen "I Want It All" starts with "I want all"

I don't have such problem with clementine or foobar2k.