Superpowered: can't get TimeStretching to work correctly, the output sound is distorted

I'm trying to use the Superpowered SDK to apply a real-time Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting on an mp3 file which is being played and also recorded at the same time. The problem is that no matter what I do the output sound quality is terrible (to the point of it being distorted).
I suspect that it's due to the conflicting samples per frame number. Here is the complete source code of my cpp file:

static SuperpoweredAndroidAudioIO *audioIO;
static SuperpoweredTimeStretching *stretching;
static SuperpoweredAudiopointerList *outputBuffers;
static SuperpoweredDecoder *decoder;
static SuperpoweredRecorder *recorder;
const char *outFilePath;
const char *tempFilePath;

static short int *intBuffer;
static float *playerBuffer;

bool audioInitialized = false;
bool playing = false;

static bool audioProcessing(
        void *__unused clientData, // custom pointer
        short int *audio,           // buffer of interleaved samples
        int numberOfFrames,         // number of frames to process
        int __unused sampleRate     // sampling rate
) {

    if (playing) {
        unsigned int samplesDecoded = decoder->samplesPerFrame;
        if (decoder->decode(intBuffer, &samplesDecoded) == SUPERPOWEREDDECODER_ERROR) return false;
        if (samplesDecoded < 1) {
            playing = false;
            return false;
        }



        SuperpoweredAudiobufferlistElement inputBuffer;
        inputBuffer.samplePosition = decoder->samplePosition;
        inputBuffer.startSample = 0;
        inputBuffer.samplesUsed = 0;
        inputBuffer.endSample = samplesDecoded;
        inputBuffer.buffers[0] = SuperpoweredAudiobufferPool::getBuffer(samplesDecoded * 8 + 64);
        inputBuffer.buffers[1] = inputBuffer.buffers[2] = inputBuffer.buffers[3] = NULL;


        SuperpoweredShortIntToFloat(intBuffer, (float *) inputBuffer.buffers[0], samplesDecoded);

        stretching->process(&inputBuffer, outputBuffers);

        if (outputBuffers->makeSlice(0, outputBuffers->sampleLength)) {

            while (true) { 
                int numSamples = 0;
                float *timeStretchedAudio = (float *) outputBuffers->nextSliceItem(&numSamples);
                if (!timeStretchedAudio) break;

                SuperpoweredFloatToShortInt(timeStretchedAudio, intBuffer,
                                            (unsigned int) numSamples);
                SuperpoweredShortIntToFloat(intBuffer, playerBuffer, (unsigned int) numSamples);

                recorder->process(playerBuffer, (unsigned int) numSamples);
                SuperpoweredFloatToShortInt(playerBuffer, audio, (unsigned int) numSamples);

            };
            outputBuffers->clear();
            return true;
        };
    }
    return false;
}


extern "C" JNIEXPORT void
Java_com_example_activities_DubsmashActivity_InitAudio(
        JNIEnv  __unused *env,
        jobject  __unused obj,
        jint bufferSize,
        jint sampleRate,
        jstring outputPath,
        jstring tempPath
) {

    decoder = new SuperpoweredDecoder();

    outputBuffers = new SuperpoweredAudiopointerList(8, 16);

    outFilePath = env->GetStringUTFChars(outputPath, 0);
    tempFilePath = env->GetStringUTFChars(tempPath, 0);

}

extern "C" JNIEXPORT jdouble
Java_com_example_activities_DubsmashActivity_OpenFile(
        JNIEnv *env,
        jobject  __unused obj,
        jstring filePath) {
    const char *path = env->GetStringUTFChars(filePath, 0);
    decoder->open(path);
    intBuffer = (short int *) malloc(decoder->samplesPerFrame * 2 * sizeof(short int) + 32768);
    playerBuffer = (float *) malloc(decoder->samplesPerFrame * 2 * sizeof(short int) + 32768);
    audioIO = new SuperpoweredAndroidAudioIO(
            decoder->samplerate,
            decoder->samplesPerFrame,
            false,
            true,
            audioProcessing,
            NULL,
            -1, -1,
            decoder->samplesPerFrame * 2
    );

    stretching = new SuperpoweredTimeStretching(decoder->samplerate);

    stretching->setRateAndPitchShift(1, 0);

    recorder = new SuperpoweredRecorder(
            tempFilePath,              
            decoder->samplerate,  
            1,                  
            2,                  
            false,             
            recorderStopped,    
            NULL               
    );

    return 0;
}

Some notes to consider:

1. This is not a duplicate of this question, since the solution in that thread doesn't work for me
2. I have tried playing with the decoder->samplesPerFrame and numSamples but I can't get a decent output.
3. If I set the Time Stretching to 1 and Pitch Shift to 0 the sound plays seamlessly.

UPDATE 1:
After some more tampering and playing with different values for number of samples, I figured the problem must be with the difference between the amount of samples that the audio output (DAC MAN) expects and the amount that outputBuffers->nextSliceItem actually provides.
Having said that I can think of a way to mitigate this problem and that would be to append the output of outputBuffers->nextSliceItem to a temporary buffer and then when it reaches the threshold, direct it to the audio output.

Hence my second question: Is there a way in C++ to append a buffer to another buffer?

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