Audio drops when performing beatjump

[acolombier]

Bug Description

When performing large beatjumps (8+ beats), it happens sometimes that there is audio drops. I believe this is due to CachingReader miss, leading to delay to fetch the samples.
A suggestion would be to add Beatjump as a Hint::Type at playposition+beatjump size and playposition-beatjump size

Version

main

OS

Pop OS 22.04 (with Wayland)

[ronso0]

So you suggest to hint the reader with Hint::Type::Beatjump in LoopingControl::hintReader?
If I understand the flow correctly, this requires tracking the beatjump seek request or get it from EngineBuffer?

[acolombier]

Yes, that's my suggestion, and from my understanding so far, this would indeed require tracking the beatjump seek request to add a hint at -/+ the current play position.