First half-second of sound distorted in Maverick (pulseaudio)

[spoon_]

Any sound playing through pulseaudio is distorted for the first half-second or so. Sounds like a buzzing or crackling or something. This happens, for example, in Pidgin and Clementine (music player). If I set these programs to output through alsa instead of pulseaudio, there's no such problem. Also no such problem existed in 10.04. And I tried the fix in the sticky, nothing changed.

Edit: probably less than a half second of distortion, really. Maybe 100ms.

[andrewthomas]

Did you read the sticky?

See the second post

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...61&postcount=2

[spoon_]

Yep, I mentioned in my original post that I tried the fix suggested in the sticky and nothing changed.

[Sennaista]

I think I have the same problem. If I fast-forward in Rhythmbox the music always starts with a distortion too.

[danbuter]

I'm glad MM didn't ship with any obvious basic bugs.

[ellgor]

Hi,

I was having the same issue, it also affected playback in Vlc and a couple of other apps I have since worked out, cause "Pulseaudio", completely removed it, now sound is restored amd music now sounds like its not been played at the bottom of a bucket.

Regards, Ellgor.

[NCLI]

How about reporting this as a bug in Pulseaudio instead of removing it -_-

[Polyphenolic]

Confirming same problem. Also came across the same "fix" in the sticky and applied it, but to no avail.

[moteprime]

Have anybody filed a bug on this issue?
I found this one, but it does not appear do cause much activity.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/609556

[fleamour]

Try here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...otingProcedure

Took me a long while to find, I am author of bug-609556.