[Jan-Erik]

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The alpha5 was working perfectly, crossfade was working without stuttering for a while before I decided to do do a crazy thing, playing music and at the same time starting a video (DTS sound) (or video and then start and play spotimc?) and then it crashed (sadly no logging) and then I lost use of default sound out of HDMI so no crossfade anymore. Restart XBMC or turn of PC and restart did not remedy this

Now I get lots of this, probably not related to spotymc. Do XBMC do some changes to asound settings recently or change settings while playing, since the crash broke the sound?

Warning: using insecure memory!
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
ALSA lib pcm.c:7316snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

Probably have to install XBMCbuntu from scratch to get it working again? (Had earlier changed .asoundrc file to get crossfade working)

Try restoring an earlier .asoundrc, or running XBMC on another user account. By the way, Spotimc does nothing bizarre with audio configs, it just serves local http streams that XBMC understands.

I'm confused now?
Did as you suggest, restoring ~xbmc/.asoundrc yesterday + some restarting of the box, but didn't help.
Had a good night sleep and today run this to see if some setting was muted

Code:

sudo /usr/bin/amixer -q -c 0 sset 'Master',0 unmute && /usr/bin/amixer -q -c 0 sset 'Master',0 100
sudo alsactl store 0

And then had everything back to normal

not sure but it looks like the default sound setting is muted as default (my default sound output setting have from install been silent). Used this guide, but changed Audio Output Device to Default
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...controller

This fixed crossfade and speaker location for HD sound, but maybe messed to much with the setting that make the stuttering sound?
When I have the time I install everything from scratch and just run the above unmute command to se if that fix the cross-fade and navigate sound?