mpg123 delayed reaction to keyboard

[Миронов Леонид Владимирович]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:44:36 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
> > > > mpg123 reacts to keyboard commands after a ~3 second delay while playing but not when paused i.e. when spacebar is pressed while music is playing it stops after 3 seconds but when spacebar is pressed again it resumes playing instantaneously. No such issue on linux with the same 1.25.10. Changing buffer size (-b) has no effect.
> > >
> > > In my environment, the same happens even in Linux.
> > > This looks upstream problem of mpg123.
> >
> > Ah, this seems to depend on audio output module.
> > If output module is pulse or alsa, this does not happen, but DOES 
> > happen with oss.
> 
> So, please install mpg123-pulse package and start
> mpg123 with '-o pulse' option. This should fix the issue.

It did, thank you.