clean sound turns into distorted scratchy sound randomly :(

[IKT]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

I will be listening to music doing whatever and then the audio will go to crap as said in the title.

I thought this was system wide but audio from youtube seems to be ok, while in vlc it's still bad, then this happened:

Apr 8 19:27:05 ikt-ubuntu kernel: [20193.327500] compiz[1886]: segfault at 61 ip 00007f4b400d21e5 sp 00007fff896265b0 error 4 in libnux-0.9.so.0.936.4[7f4b3ff47000+1d5000]

And now the audio is working fine in vlc.

This only affects VLC, and strangely enough, after compiz crashed, the audio fixed itself.

How does compiz affect pulse audio affect VLC?

[Phil (pmagnone)]

Same thing happens here. Audio in Pithos, VLC, and VirtualBox VMs is affected, but audio through the browser seemed to be OK.

To others with the same issue, you can restart compiz manually to fix the problem. Press Alt+F2 to bring up the run command dialog, then enter:

compiz --replace

[Mark Rose (markrose)]

I've had the audio go scratchy randomly with Amarok.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 751265, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.