audio pops and snaps?

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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