[alsa-devel] Clicking and stuttering audio when playing two or more files

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:21:47PM -0400, Adam Rosenberg wrote:
> I have audio output perfectly from my second CS42448 CODEC now, but
> only when one file is playing.  When I attempt to play two files, one
> or both of the files play with clicking and stuttering.  I am also

Clicks and stutters usually mean that you're not managing to keep the
data flowing into the audio controller quickly enough to keep it from
underrunning.

> noticing that the PCM prepare operation is occurring more than once.
> What could be causing this problem?

I'd expect prepare to be called for each data stream.