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Unless its just music

Unless that music is being played through a multi kW amplifier into a stadium and an xrun causes damage to the drivers and/or audience (although, they should have hearing protection anyway).

Your talk of xrun is giving me anxiety. When I was younger I dreamed of having a linux audio effects stack with cheap hardware on stage and xruns brought my dreams crashing down.

xrun definition: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199498/what-are-xru...

(I didn't know the term, trying to be helpful if others don't)

just a buffer under/overrun

it's cross-run aka xrun because these buffers are circular.

Depending on implementation, it will either pause or play the old sample where the new one isn't yet but should be.

> and an xrun causes damage to the drivers and/or audience

An xrun typically manifests itself as a (very short) discontinuity or gap in the audio signal. It might sound unpleasant, but there's nothing dangerous about it.

It may not be safety critical, but remember that people can and will purchase $14k power chords to (ostensibly) improve the experience of listening to "just music".

https://www.audioadvice.com/audioquest-nrg-dragon-high-curre...

FWIW, a power chord is a _very_ different thing than a power cord.

LOL, what a typo! Good catch!

what if your analog sampler ruins the only good take you can get? What if it's recording a historically important speech? Starting to get philosophical here...

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