# Audio dropouts playing MP3 files over SMB?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/audio-dropouts-playing-mp3-files-over-smb/2277>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [February 11, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/audio-dropouts-playing-mp3-files-over-smb/2277 "2018-02-11T16:46:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Ryan\_Miller](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Ryan_Miller)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/audio-dropouts-playing-mp3-files-over-smb/2277/1 "2018-02-11T16:46:31Z")

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I have the current version of pimusicbox installed on a PiZeroW with a USB sound card connected.

Airplay works perfectly, but when I use the MusicBox web interface to play an MP3 file from an SMB share, audio drops out every 10-15 seconds.

Is the ZeroW simply not powerful enough?

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/audio-dropouts-playing-mp3-files-over-smb/2277/2 "2018-02-11T16:58:35Z")

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I’ve never tried that on the pizero to be honest but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t powerful enough. Could you login via ssh and run `top` whilst experiencing the problem and see what the cpu usage is like.

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Ryan\_Miller](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Ryan_Miller)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/audio-dropouts-playing-mp3-files-over-smb/2277/3 "2018-02-15T00:54:32Z")

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3 days ago when I left town, Top showed Mopidy using 60% cpu when playing an mp3 over smb.

I came back today and tried playing the same file, now Top only shows Mopidy using ~20% cpu.

Maybe something was indexing? Seems to work now, though.

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/audio-dropouts-playing-mp3-files-over-smb/2277/4 "2026-02-19T11:47:10Z")

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