diff --git a/player.c b/player.c
index 7b2ce500..a76385b2 100644
--- a/player.c
+++ b/player.c
@@ -2414,7 +2414,7 @@ void *player_thread_func(void *arg) {
             double moving_average_correction = 0.0;
             double moving_average_insertions_plus_deletions = 0.0;
             if (number_of_statistics == 0) {
-              debug(1, "number_of_statistics is zero!");
+              debug(2, "number_of_statistics is zero.");
             } else {
               moving_average_sync_error = (1.0 * tsum_of_sync_errors) / number_of_statistics;
               moving_average_correction = (1.0 * tsum_of_corrections) / number_of_statistics;