First milliseconds of a Pidgin event sound are distorted

[Detlef Lechner]

Binary package hint: pidgin

This computer plays the first milliseconds of a Pidgin event sound distorted. They sound like an overdriven analog audio amplifier. An often heard Pidgin event sound is a triad. In a triad only the first tone appears to be distorted.
I have no idea where this transient comes from.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 3 23:40:48 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin

[Pavlov Dmitry (pavlov-dmitry-n)]

There is no distortion if alsa is used for soung output in pidging settings.

[Detlef Lechner (detlef-lechner)]

hehe.
There is. Even today.

'~$ uname -a; Linux MD97600 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux'

[Horst Schirmeier (horst)]

Same here (on x86-64, with snd_hda_intel). If I use ALSA, there is no distortion; if I use "Command" and "aplay %s", no distortion either. Probably related to Bug #648839?