audio pops and snaps?

[Thomas Cameron]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 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.

That's great to know, but how do I fix it?  It is not an enjoyable 
multi-media experience.  ;-)

TC

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