@illando unfortunately I don't know
I really don't see the card speed being much of an issue because the raspberry pi doesn't have a very fast read write speed to start with as far as I know

But if you have one laying around or easily accessible guess it wouldn't hurt to try that

@SDKrt said in Sound gets slowly lost:

Is that enough?

Not really, I'm not sure which version you have installed or what emulator you're using (EmulationStation is only a front-end which launches the actual emulators for the game).

What game are you playing ? If you take out the amplifier and connect the audio directly to a headphone/speaker do you get the same problem.

@jamietuley You don't need to overclock, I was just checking that you didn't have that enabled, overclocking usually needs more power for the GPU/CPU and that might affect the USB current output.

A powered USB hub is one that it doesn't draw power from the Pi's USB port and has its own power plug. This was your IPAC and USB soundcard will be powered separately.

@Gazmeister said in Emulator sound issues:

Retrodroid, an odroid xu4

Thats tough, I don't notice a lot of XU4 users here, and I don't know anything about them. XU4 forum is a better idea.

Perhaps updating the kernel, to the latest.

Is there any sort of config.txt for the kernel options, like as on the raspberry pi? Usually for overclock, or hdmi configuration, also kernel overlays modules.

there is a uboot.ini for XU4, and I didn't look far into it, there may be some configuration here that simply works

How long of an hdmi cable just out of absurdity? I think a very long 50ft hdmi could have problems like that. TVs okay probably, but maybe there is 4k upscaling(?) interference, switch it to a "Game" or "Graphic" mode if you already haven't. Maybe disable 4k options if possible.

Can you please add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?
How are you trying to wake up the system - keyboard, controller, etc ? If you're running a screensaver, consider disabling the power saving option in ES.

For the audio part, try adding audio_pwm_mode=2 to your /boot/config.txt and see if it improves the sound cutting part.

@mitu Weird, is there someplace to mute the audio inside emulationstation that isn't obvious? The audio tab on the emulator had the mute setting set as "off", the volume setting kept defaulting to zero and it reset to that value and wouldn't allow me to save a value. Obviously, I still have a ton to learn!