After some research I see this is normal behaviour: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Tuning
-- CPU usage spikes to 30% regularly during playback, no PulseAudio involved, just ALSA https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368121 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs