[Hardy] stuttering sound in Audacious when playing Wave files with Pulseaudio plugin

[Jan Rathmann]

Binary package hint: audacious-plugins

When I play a Wave audio file (*.wav) in Audacious, I get a rather stuttering sound when Pulseaudio is selected as the output plugin; the playback seems to "hang" for a very short time approximately every second whicht leads to a crackling noise in the music.
It is quite easy to reproduce on my system:

- Start Audacious and ensure Pulseaudio is selected as output plugin
- Open a Wave file (I have tried many different ones with different sample rates, bit resolutions, ...)
- And listen to it.

Interestingly this does _only_ happen with the combination of Wave files and the PA output plugin, for example other file types like ogg or mp3 are played fine with PA plugin, and there is also no problem in playing Wave files if I select a different output plugin like ESD or Alsa.
I have found no way to solve this so far, the value of the playback buffer size in Audacious settings doesn't seem to have any influence on this issue.
Since my CPU is of the Core 2 Duo family, I don't think this is a performance issue ;-)

Kind regards,
Jan

[Grzegorz Galezowski (spectral)]

I had the same issue (reported a while ago as issue 232305).
The bug is still around, unfortunately.

[lieven moors (lievenmoors)]

I'm having the same issue on Hardy, when using the JACK server.
Playing wav files have a stuttering sound to them. All my settings seem to
be allright though.... When using alsa, there is no problem at all.

[lieven moors (lievenmoors)]

P.S. I'm using a 64bit system

[ShinobiTeno (lct-mail)]

I have the same issue.
Using Ubuntu Studio 8.04, pulseaudio.
32bit athlon(barton)@2.2Ghz(3200+), 1GB ram, nforce2

Only WAV files stutter and only in Audicious.

Totem(Gstream), mhWaveEdit play without stutter!

[ShinobiTeno (lct-mail)]

Update.
The reason for stuttering is native PulseAudio plugin in Audacious.

If you select ESD plugin (which is automatically fetched and emulated by PulseAudio) as output in Audacious, it will play WAV gapless!!!!

As told on pulseaudio page: "set buffer size to 300 to prevent stuttering when playing MP3 files"
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

However, we have WAV issue AND it doesnt help... even increased it to 3000, no help.

I experimented a little more:
Setting output to ALSA plugin(which is fetched by PA also, if you modify /etc/alsaconf) temporary corrects the problem too.
And, Alsa plugin has a default buffer of 500, same as default buffer for Pulse plugin.

[ShinobiTeno (lct-mail)]

It is, as if WAV playback (module?) of PulseAudio plugin DOESNT respect buffer size....

[EricDHH (ericdhh)]

Addon, bug still exist in Intrepid, but the ESD plugin will play everything fine. Buffersize in the pulseaudio plugin
does not matter.

Byebye
TuxfarmHH

[Mac (ussndmac)]

I discovered this behavior with both pulse and jack in Hardy.

Alsa works fine.

[Nologin (nologinplease)]

Still here on Karmic.

[confusion_music (bruce-hlalaphansi)]

Yep same here on Karmic...identical bug description as all above

[W (ehesember)]

Still present in Lucid 64-bit.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test Audacious 2.3 from the latest stable Ubuntu version (10.04) or the current Ubuntu development version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect #234004, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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