Static/Distortion on output when server has been running a while?

[welovechatter]

Hi there

We've had this up and running for over a year now and it works great! The only issue i'm having is that my partner (who's the main user) leaves the pi running all the time in the background and then complains that sometimes when he's not used it for a while and starts the turntable playing the sound is fuzzy or distorted, like there is static.

He then pulls the power on the Pi and reboots it, which he says usually fixes the issue...obviously i'd rather he wasn't hard rebooting the pi regularly (he now does it every time he sits down to use the turntable) so I wondered if this is an issue anyone else has seen or had any ideas about?

I've been thinking about setting a cron job to reboot the pi every morning at 3am...but would rather solved the root cause if possible?

Thanks
Jon