Bug 524337

Created attachment 361790 [details]
Output from pulseaudio -vvvv after audacious starts playing

Today I experienced similar symptoms with only audacious playing audio.  Its "place in track" indicator showed time passing at about 5 times normal, with scratchy fast forward-sounding audio to match.  After it happened the first time, I started pulseaudio with -vvvv, and it happened again.  It has happened both in the middle of an MP3, and right when the second MP3 on the playlist starts.

I excerpted the part of the output I get after audacious is already playing, until after I hit "Stop" in audacious.

Created attachment 362323 [details]
Output of alsa-info.sh --no-upload

Today I was experiencing garbled output from audacious, despite closing and restarting the program.  It eventually became continuous, making the program completely unusable.  The only other application playing audio was Rhythmbox, which was paused.  I unpaused it, and hit "Play" in Audacious, which played music normally again.  I was able to re-pause Rhythmbox without any garbled output (at least for the next few minutes).

It seems there is a more general problem with the PulseAudio server getting confused when multiple applications are connected.  I am attaching more diagnostic info.

it seems more to me like audacious is the common factor here; have you ever experienced this problem with any *other* application?

audacious does have a native PA output plugin, IIRC - have you tried using that rather than the ALSA output plugin? it should be better behaved.

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Well, after upgrading to Fedora 12, I don't believe I've experienced any such symptoms.  I tried reproducing the bug by re-creating the circumstances in the initial report, but everything worked fine.  I see in Audacious' preferences that it's now using the PulseAudio output plugin by default.  Fine with me to close this, unless you want me to re-enable the ALSA output plugin and see if anything bad happens in daily use with F12.

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