wrong pulseaudio media role

[Dani Alonso]

Binary package hint: empathy

It seems that a commit from March, 8th setted the default pulseaudio media role for Empathy to be that of "phone".

This seems reasonable during voip calls so it stops any media player actually playing, but it turns out that even notifications about just received chat messages are being tagged the same way, and so continuously "breaking" the media player output.

This is the reference for the culprit:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/svn-commits-list/2009-March/msg02455.html

When no in a voip call, it should be set to "event" rather than "phone".

[KAMI (kami911)]

Yeah Rhythmbox automatically pauses for Skype incoming messages (and any other events that create notification sounds)

[Sherlock (shift2-freemail)]

This is very annoying and I couldn't find any setting to disable it. I looked around in skype, sound settings and Rhythmbox but there is no such setting. It makes impossible to listen to music while chatting.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

note that the pulseaudio option to suspend playing on call will not be used by default in karmic

[Dani Alonso (dalonso)]

Bug reported upstream:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598509

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for taking time to report this bug and help make ubuntu better. Can you please confirm if this is still issue for you. Can you please try to reproduce this bug in Lucid beta?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!