Comment 12 for bug 1188425

Yes this bug affects all ubuntu releases since at least 13.04
No I haven't found a solution yet. This was the best I came up with. You can try to increase the default-fragments number but that will increase latency. A number of 5 is a compromise between latency and probability of crash.
I suggest you use Alexander Patrakov's dca alsa plugin

http://aepatrakov.narod.ru/index/0-2

Its main disadvantage is the higher cpu usage! However it doesn't suffer from this bug.