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    Retropie sound stuttering on Pi zero w

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      rubberdinghy
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      I am running retropie 4.3 on a raspberry pi zero w. I have a Adafruit Class D Amp Breakout connected to the pi zero and a single small 5watt speaker. I installed the recommended "hifiberry-dac" sound card driver and enabled the zero playback service. I played a few games on gameboy, super nintendo, nes, atari lynx. The sound on nes is fine. The sound on atari lynx is stuttering in and out and same with many super nintendo games. The games run fine but the music in the games stutters. The sound effects are fine also. The stutter sounds like a "wobble" where the tempo almost changes and it sounds like it just isn't processing the music fast enough. I haven't tried changing buffer size or sample rate which is at 44100, but Anyway any advice is appreciated! Thanks!

      Here is the Adafruit amp and the setup instructions I followed:
      https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-max ... y-pi-usage

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        rubberdinghy @rubberdinghy
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        sory here is the full link to the setup intructions for the amp: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-max98357-i2s-class-d-mono-amp/raspberry-pi-usage

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