- faulty 3.5mm jacks on certain headphones causing intermittent cutout
- buffering pauses for remote libraries/streaming (eg. YouTube or Spotify)
- Bluetooth/codec issues, where the proper codec isn't negotiated and "headset" mode stays on
That being said, I don't stream FLAC and my library is <10,000 songs. Maybe you've got a big library?
- faulty 3.5mm jacks on certain headphones causing intermittent cutout
- buffering pauses for remote libraries/streaming (eg. YouTube or Spotify)
- Bluetooth/codec issues, where the proper codec isn't negotiated and "headset" mode stays on
That being said, I don't stream FLAC and my library is <10,000 songs. Maybe you've got a big library?