audio pops and snaps?

[Jerry Amundson]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
<ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:40 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> I'm noticing a *lot* of audio pops and snaps.  For instance, I use
>> Pidgin and I have sound events turned on for pretty much everything.
>> Often the snaps come as a sound event occurs like someone "speaking" on
>> IRC - instead of a clear note when someone "talks" there is a snap and
>> then the note.  Also, when someone joins or leaves, the note is often
>> (but not always) interrupted by either a short sound dropout or a pop.
>
> The "pops" are ALSA initializing the sound card as PulseAudio opens it
> for playback. PA closes the audio device after a short period with no
> output.

No, there is more to it. Yes, *one* "pop" might be an audio init
indicator, but Thomas indicates "a *lot* of audio pops and snaps".
bz is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466840
Either it works for you, or your hardware doesn't apply and you move along...
Late night again, right Ignacio? I'm OK with one of two of these
pointers - more than that and I start charging for my services - beer
and/or coffee usually suffice... :-)

jerry

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