Comment 58 for bug 116990

@Martin: but then people would still get the bug when augmenting the output volume. The issue is caused by 32 versus 16-bits samples on the output device, so I think a hack that helps prefer a mode and still allows for the other modes to be selected is better than one that keeps the bad mode but reduces the volume.

I'll attach some test cases for us to track whether this is really an ALSA bug or perhaps a GStreamer bug.