Significant Delay when playing, but 0s when pausing or changing volume.

[harbirg]

Problem/Motivation

Downloaded the addon on HA and noticed significant delay when playing songs but if you pause or change volume its immediate.
There have been a couple of issues filed with the same problem but closed due to being stale, so opening this one to provide a solution and request maintainer to fix it.
#164 - Significant delay when playing/stopping/changing songs #164
#166 - 10s lag when playing, but 0s when pausing #166

Proposed changes

After debugging the addon, I noticed that it is using flac codec being used is slowing things down. As per the commits, it should be wav. So, its unclear why flac codec is being used when latest commit uses wav at https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-airsonos/blob/main/airsonos/rootfs/etc/airsonos.xml

For folks seeing delays, please make the following changes -

1. Stop the addon as it is needed to modify the airsonos.xml
2. Open airsonos.xml which is located at /addon_configs/a0d7b954_airsonos/airsonos.xml. Your folder name may be slightly different. Use the 'File editor' addon to make this change.
3. Modify flac to wav
4. Save airsonos.xml
5. Start the addon
6. Verify in the logs that you no longer see Content-Type: audio/flac and it should be Content-Type: audio/wav

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any activity on this issue recently, so we clean up some of the older and inactive issues.
Please make sure to update to the latest version and check if that solves the issue. Let us know if that works for you by leaving a comment 👍
This issue has now been marked as stale and will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thanks!

[JustAiden9]

huh yeah, this worked. It changed my delay from 15 seconds down to 1 second! I think that extra 1 second is the data transfer from my iPhone to the HA server, so overall, it's a perfect fix!

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any activity on this issue recently, so we clean up some of the older and inactive issues.
Please make sure to update to the latest version and check if that solves the issue. Let us know if that works for you by leaving a comment 👍
This issue has now been marked as stale and will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thanks!

[wobfan]

+1, that fixed the 15 seconds delay i had, which actually made me not use it at all. thanks for investigating and finding the fix!