#26 Sound becomes choppy after powered on for hours

After hours of uptime, sometimes the audio becomes 'choppy'. Short sounds get cutoff completely and longer sounds are choppy, as if the audio is cutting out.

Rebooting fixes the issues temporarily. The length of time is inconsistent, sometimes occurring after hours, sometimes days.

# uname -a
Linux popufaredev 4.19.97-v7+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:15:58 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

There was a suggestion to an rpi-update (link).

Another was to modify /boot/config.txt (link):

hdmi_drive=2 disable_audio_dither=on dtparam=audio=on `