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Update: The chest-bag has solved the problem! With my smartphone in the bag on my chest the wifi signal never has any difficulty reaching my bluetooth headphones when I am outdoors. There are now zero "stutters". My only concern now is having my smartphone broadcasting wifi signals just ce...

I'm still experiencing occasional stuttering issues with v3.5.4 when playing flac files, . . . Does it happen if you connect your phone to desktop speakers by way of a cable? And does it happen if you connect your phone to headphones by way of a cable? If it does still happen in both cabled situati...

Update. The "stuttering" effect has almost entirely gone from my set-up. Only very rarely now are tiny parcels of sound skipped during playback. And I think the reasons for the improvement are as follows: I noticed that when I attach my phone to my desktop speakers by way of an RCA cable t...

I installed VLC version 3.5.4 Beta 2 yesterday and I've tested it for about an hour. Not one glitch, hiccup or stutter in any of the flac files I tested. Munnerlyn, I am happy for you that version 3.5.4 has stopped your "hiccups" in the middle of FLAC files, but 3.5.4 has not done the sam...

@packzap, has "the FLAC audio cut-out issue with VLC" been fixed by version 3.5.4 on ANY platform, or on ANY phone where it has previously occurred? I've reported no improvement on my device other than FLACs no longer coming to a complete halt mid-track.

Update. I was excited to see VLC 3.5.4 available recently on Google Play, and have been testing it ever since. I am glad that on my smartphone (Samsung S21+) VLC 3.5.4 does not come to a halt in the middle of a FLAC track (as VLC 3.5.3 did), and this is progress. Thank you! However, like VLC 3.5.3, ...

pmespace, thanks. It's so good to know that other people are having the same problem when playing FLAC files (and perhaps other forms of sound files as well) on the latest version of VLC. Last night I had second evening using the "Samsung Music" app, and apart from those occasional microse...

Aza, in case it helps, I tested the Samsung Music app late last night and while it has been greatly improved and easily allows one to play on shuffle all of the tracks in subdirectories, ie, no need to make playlists, the Samsung Music app is not entirely without aural problems. It doesn't ever stut...

I'm away from my home for a week and have only the phone at hand, so I can't go through the debugging process at the moment. HOWEVER, today I gave VLC the simplest task: using "Browse" I selected a folder with just 10 FLAC tracks in it and told VLC to "Play All", and very sadly i...

Aza, I have to go away for 7 days, but on my return will look into debug logs. I've not dealt with debugging before. I've just checked my Android Settings and a search on "Debug Log" produces: Accessibility: Talkback > Talkback settings > Advanced settings > Enable debug log overlay and De...

Thanks @Spike1 and @YodatheWeeb for further thoughts. All my audio files are in FLAC format, so each audio track is much larger than an MP3. But previous versions of VLC handled the very same FLAC files very well - with only an occasional initial stutter. Yesterday I uninstalled the latest version o...

@Spike1, yes, I think you're right: it seems to be a processing problem. From the list of previous versions, I selected: VLC-Android-3.4.0-arm64-v8a.apk but it won't install. I am given the message: "App not installed as package appears to be invalid". Have I got to choose a particular kin...

@Spike1, thank you very much for the link to previous versions of VLC for Android. I will play the latest version all through this afternoon and see if a "roll-back" would be better. If you have an opinion on which previous version does not ever stutter, I would be most grateful for it.

After installing the latest "VLC for Android", 3.5.3, VLC on my device is now fraught with stutters, pauses, stops, and even sudden switching between tracks. Sometimes a sudden pause in a track lasts only a second or two, sometimes it lasts perhaps as long as 10 or 15 seconds, and sometime...