Two audio outputs enabled result in short "hickup" at beginning of playback

[skidoo23]

MPD from git, Snapcast from git, Linux x64, Debian testing.

Excerpt from mpd.conf

audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "Lexicon Omega"
device "hw:Omega"
auto_resample "no"
auto_format "no"
mixer_type "software"
# no hardware mixer for device
}
audio_output {
type "fifo"
name "SnapCast"
path "/tmp/snapfifo"
format "48000:16:2"
}

Start playback, a short "hickup" (< 1 second) on ALSA device occurs. Stop playback and start again to reproduce. Disable Snapcast output in MPD client and audio playback works flawless. Bug or feature?

[MaxKellermann]

The fifo output is experimental and unsupported. It should not be used. It is unfortunate that SnapCast decided to build the software on top of this messy plugin. I wish SnapCast had instead submitted a new output plugin to this project.

[skidoo23]

Bad news. I wanted to write some kind of mixer plugin to control volume, mute and maybe some grouping functions from SnapCast via its JSON-RPC API. Implementing complete SnapCast client and server functionality is somewhat beyond my time and errr... capabilities.

[MaxKellermann]

This is obsolete because MPD has a native Snapcast output plugin now.