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what you're running into is the system stalling usually due to unoptimized or pathological edge cases. the system load doesn't necessarily matter. thats why it happens random and isnt repeatable.
as for your follow up question: many media players have builtin album art resolution. though not sure how to enable it.
I'll check on the second. On the OP, is there anything I can do? A better media player? Surely everyone isn't just putting up with this!
Thank you for the reply.
im not too familiar with debian, so its hard to say. could be any number of issues: the type of encoding your media is in, the media player, the kernel, drivers.
That's not too encouraging, I've got to say!
Thank you.
Try a different player. elisa is built on top of vlc's codec library. see if the problem goes away. if the file's format is rare i'd try to convert it to a new format and see if the problem is resolved.
I shall try!
They're just MP3s, but I wouldn't know what kind.
those should be pretty well optimized at this point. that leaves basically the drivers if you have issues on a different player. do you have issues with audio on say youtube?
Not that I have noticed. I do watch music videos, so I think I would have heard it.
Well thats good! Pointing towards vlc specific issues ;)
Off topic, is there a way to add thumbnails to mp3s automatically? Like CD covers or something.
Happens in Ubuntu as well since several months in all players. Doesn't happen with opus and flac files.
Something compression related maybe. Hmm