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Sat, 31 May 2008

Tech tip: MPD and Pulseaudio using too much CPU

When I switched to Pulseaudio recently, I noticed that MusicPD started consuming way more CPU time than it used to. The culprit is the following lines in ~/.mpdconf.

mixer_type                      "alsa"
mixer_device                    "default"
mixer_control                   "Master"

The fix is to use the software mixer instead:

mixer_type                      "software"

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