VLC’s audio is choppy

This is an known bug, infortunately, there’s no solution actually. You need changing to SoX and pulse:

Install SoX

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio sox libsox-fmt-pulse

Edit AlexaPi’s config

Locate config

The default AlexaPi’s config emplacement is /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml or in the same folder as AlexaPi. If there’s no config.yaml, create it:

sudo cp /opt/AlexaPi/src/config.template.yaml /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml

Edit config

Now edit it with nano for example:

sudo nano /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml

and change theses lines:

  input_device: "pulse"
  playback_handler: "sox"
  output: "pulseaudio"
  output_device: "default"

Now save (Ctrl+X - y - Enter - Enter for nano) and start/restart AlexaPi

sudo service alexapi restart

If it’s not working, please open an issue.