[christoofar]

Well, it seems all's not peachy in Chromebox world here. I've been home the last few days recuperating from some minor surgery, so have had time to set it up & play with it. Today I set it into PartyMode to play my music all day from my NAS (FLAC or high BR mp3s), and am hearing a lot of dropouts in many of the songs (most of which I ripped myself) I went into Audio setting & changed Optimized from High to Medium, but that didn't seem to help any. I've never seen this with any of my Windoze boxes, WDLive, or my Tronsmart S-89-H Android box.Any suggestions on what to do/look for?

Pioneer Receivers and Intel Audio seem to not get along great. There's a thread on OE where people were doing custom builds just for Intel & Pioneer hardware.
http://openelec.tv/forum/68-audio/67773-...mitstart=0

Hope some of that info helps - I like my VSX-822-K, but had I known it was going to struggle like this, I would have bought a different brand.

per the info on pg 8, looks like with current OE builds, all you need is the one line in advancedsettings.xml. If that's the case, I'll add the info to the wiki

Sweet! Thanks. Ever since that one time, mine is behaving normally. I have no idea why it was dropping like that . But the next day I got up switched it on, went into Settings /Output Config, and changed it to Best Match again (I'd tried that the night before but was still having the dropouts), and it is playing everything fine now <shrug>