Comment 5 for bug 437749

I totally agree with this request. In my case, I want to run foobar2000 on Karmic; with the default version of Ubuntu, it is only possible with dirty hacks (start all wine programs with padsp and kill all other music players). This patch (there is actually a new configure patch: version 0.32) supports pulseaudio and makes foobar2000 work correctly out of the box and it plays nicely along other music players.

The patch is supported actively by the developer. Furthermore, wine developers don't want to include the patch because pulse audio is wrong by design: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495. It looks like the developers do not care at all that the audio part of wine is unusable in distributions who ship pulseaudio. However, without this patch, wine is unusable for audio programs.

Thus, I would highly appreciate the inclusion of this patch.