Rhythmbox sound problems (clicking/snapping/crackling) when appears a emesene's notify

[Michael Moroni]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I was translating in Launchpad while listinening to music with rhythmbox and "chatting" (I only launched the app) by using emesene. When a popup came up, the sound suddenly turned out in clickings, snappings and cracklings. After having stopped the music for at least 1 minute and having reported the error via Rhythmbox tool, the sound became music.

Ubuntu: 9.04
Rhythmbox:
  Installed: 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.12.0-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        500 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=eo.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

emesene:
  Installed: 1.0.1-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.0.1-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Fixed in Lucid

[cablop (cablop)]

Same here and not only with emesene notifications; it is happening with pidgin and gajim notifications too.
It was happening in both Lucyd and Maverick distributions. The difference is those creepy noises don't become music no matter how much time or songs passed. As long as i can change the sound system in pidgin and gajim, rhythmbox does not provide a way to configure sound settings (unexpected for a music player, also).

[cablop (cablop)]

It is also happening with flash player and other things

i think it is the pulseaudio thing

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@cablop Not necessarily - it could also have a sound driver component,
but as you haven't provided any hardware information (please file a
new bug report using `ubuntu-bug alsa-base'), we don't know.

[cablop (cablop)]

It is happening now with no im open. So probably it is a problem just in the sound-player>alsa>pulseaudio line...