banshee sound crackle

[Tr4sK]

Binary package hint: banshee

Hi,
So I'm on a fresh natty install. I lauch banshee and play some MP3, after some track the sound began to crackle. Even if I try to kill and restart banshee.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 1 21:03:54 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I've seen this bug as well, and it gets resolved by restarting Pulseaudio. It's not just sound from Banshee, but all sound which starts crackling all of a sudden.

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

For me it works to just pause sound for a short while and then start it again.
The bug usually happens when I have high CPU load.

My soundcard is (from lspci):
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

Found out something new today. It seems like what fixes it for me is just to make sure Pulse doesn't see anything playing for a while.

Today it didn't work just to pause and un-pause, and I found out that somehow Google Chrome had some sound stuff open, silent however. I think it was some flash video I forgot to close. Closed both Banshee and Google Chrome, and then the crackle was disappeared when I started both again.

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

Have you others turned off Ubuntu's sounds?

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

Could it be related to the new kernel patch for responsiveness (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1) which is included in the Natty kernel.
I have experienced sound to fall out a bit under high load. Maybe sometimes it just chokes on it and need some quietness for recovery.

[jk (johan-illwinter)]

Pausing did not help for me, I had to restart pulseaudio to get rid of crackling sound. Also I can confirm that it affects all sound, not just banshee.

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

Did you check the "Applications" tab in sound settings if there were more programs open that had a sound stream?
For me it works if I make sure nothing at all has a hook on Pulse to play sound.

[Laurent Lu(n)yckx (0-ubuntuone-yolastr-es)]

I'm also experiencing random ticks and pops from the speakers and I think it's mainly due to a kernel bug.

I've downgraded my kernel to the maverick one (2.6.35-29.51) and I didn't heard any crackling anymore.

Hope this can give the right direction to explore.

Cheers.

[Kristjan Männik (kristjan-mannik)]

I have witnessed similar issue. Basically, the sound starts crackling. Restarting pulseaudio does not help. If i either pause or let the crackling continue for several minutes, the sound starts properly working again on itself.

Unplugging and replugging USB cord also works (I have USB sound)

[Matej Moško (gnaag)]

Neither of these is really a solution of the problem. Is there anybody who figured out how to avoid this situation permanently? I do not want to pause the playback every few minutes.

[Pcash (pcash007)]

I am seeing this happen only on USB speakers and it is not just banshee. If the leave the laptop alone the sound is fine if I minimize a window I can hear the annoying crackle and it happens consistently. Output from the 3.5mm jack works just fine though.

anybody else? and any permanent solutions? Thanks.

This is my audio device and I am using Bose companion 5 speakers.

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

[Daniel Dietrich (shaddowy2)]

I'm experiencing similar problems.
Seems this bug could be related to bug #761312 @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/761312

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

I read bug 761312, and this seems likely to be the problem I have.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

This can be reproduced on 11.04 Live CD

Playing music using benshee and "pulseaudio -k"

benshee stop the current track and autospawn PA server and playback next track with cracking noise

[Kristjan Männik (kristjan-mannik)]

It seems that the problem has been solved for me, for a few weeks already. I did nothing, so I guess some Ubuntu update fixed the issue.

[Henk-Jan (henk-jan)]

Seems to be fixed for me too.

[Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom)]

Try installing pavucontrol, then set the output device to an output only one, without the input (then maybe set it back).

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) reached end-of-life on October 28, 2012.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]