Comment 24 for bug 582600

Oli,

Before I saw this bug, I did upgrade from Karmic to Lucid (rather than installing Lucid on an empty drive), and am still running Lucid, as noted in my original report in 591003 (but I am now running 2.6.32-24-generic):

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: sox 14.3.0-1.1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 7 17:38:46 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sox

Karmic ran ok, and Lucid (with pulseaudio) has the slow audio bug for me. It is possible that a fresh install, rather than an incremental install might fix my problem, but that means something is wrong with the incremental install. (Is it possible that I should try to reinstall some packages?)

I still have the bug as before, where playing a sound file results in an extra delay of about 2 seconds or more. This is a problem when I have code that uses /usr/bin/play on several sounds in a row, and I expect them to play in rapid sequence. If you play /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/share/gallery/sounds/ok.wav and it is supposed to take .4 seconds, but instead it takes 3 seconds, if you play it 5 times, it takes 15 seconds instead of 2 seconds, which makes for a poor user experience.