Comment 59 for bug 371897

I just wanted to chip in with an observation: I have Ubuntu Karmic. I open the System->Preferences->Sound, and then switch to the Applications tab. There I can see which applications that send sound - probably which applications have a "pulse session" or whatever. There's one line, and a volume control, per such session.

When I run with the Niel-patch, and thus pulseaudio native, this states "Wine [spotify.exe]", and appears nice and normal (for comparison, for the Flash plugin, it states "ALSA plug-in [npviewer.bin]").

When I switch over to ALSA sound on Wine, I instead get a line with "ALSA plug-in [wine-preloader]" (I use PlayOnLinux, hence the preloader I assume). That is all nice and good.

However, and here's the observation: When playing music - and having that awful stuttering, basically it feels like the song uses about twice the time to play, being chopped up into small tens-of-milliseconds fragments that are played with some silence in between - I can see this line stutter in the same speed/phase/whatever you'd like to call it, as the audio. It seems like it hooks on, plays some 10 ms of sound, then hooks off (the line disappears), and then comes back on, repeat ad pukem. If I pause the playback, the line stays on.