Comment 97 for bug 371897

Just updated to Lucid. Got ALSA to work, but suddenly the sound stops. Using Spotify. Typically happens if I drag the "time location slider" in a song around a bit - all of a sudden it doesn't start playing again, and the time location slider has stopped. Nothing helps (as in choosing another tune, pause, play, drag slider), except rebooting the application.

Choosing OSS, things seems to be stable, only that Spotify (Wine) then apparently bogarts the entire sound system - as PulseAudio now lists no hardware devices available, and no sound from e.g. Flash.

The Neil-patch doesn't work now. That is, it PulseAudio comes as an alternative in the Wine configurator. Only that when clicking the "Test Sound" button, it seems to play, but nothing comes out of the speakers. Also, when clicking the Test Sound button, in the Sound Preferences, Applications tab, I briefly see "WINE [winecfg.exe]" show up. Also, when running Spotify, "WINE [spotify.exe]" shows in the Sound Preferences, Applications tab, but no sound, and also the time location slider does not move.

I find the "Low" priority a bit .. low. Sound from Wine does not work, apparently for many of us. Now there are no proper workarounds either - until Neil fixes his patch! :-)