Is Voyage MPD using an optimized kernel for smoother audio playback? I'm thinking on the realtime patches of Thomas Gleixner: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-3.0-rc7-rt0.patch.bz2 Or the patchset of Con Kolivas: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/3.0/3.0/3.0.0-ck1/