Pulseaudio hate

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  I get crackling sound in Skype, and I cannot use

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  I get crackling sound in Skype, and I cannot use my webcam, so I have no mic nor video. Options are completly locked to pulse-audio in skype settings. I cannot ... read all

  
  

  by Daniel F on 29 Apr - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  If pulseaudio makes an f-ed up crackling, buzz,

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  If pulseaudio makes an f-ed up crackling, buzz, buzz sound in the woods and no humans are around to hear it, do birds fall dead to the ground? This is ... read all

  
  

  by Groan on 10 Mar - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  This feculent failure of a sound system is just

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  This feculent failure of a sound system is just another example of changing stuff just for the sake of changing it and then trying to convince us that it's somehow ... read all

  
  

  by Cerebral on 16 Jan - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  Bugs and latency

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  It's buggy and its maintainer pretends that the bugs (all nicely listed in Bugzilla) don't exist or aren't important. Consequently, it's a sound subsystem that continually dies and introduces a ... read all

  
  

  by Ned Flanders on 08 Jan - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  piece of shit, not sound server

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  In quakelive - I have ping 15, but with this crap I have near 10-15 fps if runned more than 1 application with sound- for example skype+quakelive, and fully unreal ... read all

  
  

  by jedaika on 18 Nov - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  PulseAudio = Linux Vista

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  Broken software is nothing new. Having it forced on you in Linux is BRAND-new. Nobody wants it, but it's on our systems, and it wraps its tentacles of shit around ... read all

  
  

  by Haakon D on 04 Nov - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  So whether I like it or not I have an

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  So whether I like it or not I have an extra layer of unnecessary latency and so-called goodness riding above the default linux sound subsystem "ALSA". It isn't enough that ... read all

  
  

  by Abelardo R on 12 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  pulseaudio SUCK!!

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  everything works well until pulseaudio arribes, pulseaudio really SUCK!!!. read all

  
  

  by Dorian C on 03 May - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  I've always thought Pulseaudio was badly broken!

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  After all these years, Pulseaudio STILL sucks big-time! Now, I've got a new audio glitch, since an update a few weeks ago. I wish someone would put out a distribution ... read all

  
  

  by David F on 30 Apr - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  Pulse Audio doesn't provide any way of controlling

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  Pulse Audio doesn't provide any way of controlling 5.1 audio at all, all you get is the master channel. As I found, when installing an Linux OS, Ubuntu, Suse, Sabayon, ... read all

  
  

  by User-995sr0 on 04 Feb - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  PulseAudio sucks because it adds an extra layer

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  PulseAudio sucks because it adds an extra layer while providing no apparent benefit. Pulseaudio may lock your soundcard and break applications which would all work & co-exist fine if you ... read all

  
  

  by Andrew L on 26 Jan - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  New versions of Ubuntu coming out when so many

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  New versions of Ubuntu coming out when so many people are still having problems with Pulseaduio is akin to putting a supercharger on a car with faulty brakes. Canonical, PLEASE ... read all

  
  

  by User-195ltl on 01 Dec - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  The simple answer for me is that it doesn't work.

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  The simple answer for me is that it doesn't work. I know its because of my lack of technical understanding but I can get sound to work by other means ... read all

  
  

  by User-7863pw on 25 Nov - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  Pulseaudio breaks mplayer slave mode in Ubuntu

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  Pulseaudio breaks mplayer slave mode in Ubuntu 10.10. Unacceptably long delays before any audio playback. I removed Pulseaudio and now it's working perfectly. read all

  
  

  by User-579j89 on 24 Nov - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  Pulseaudio is the most 'disruptive' piece of

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  Pulseaudio is the most 'disruptive' piece of software I have ever experienced in my almost 10 years with Linux. Its been so disruptive that I am now booting into Windows ... read all

  
  

  by mohanrajr on 23 Nov - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  Well I first hated it because it was releasedin

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  Well I first hated it because it was releasedin Fedora and Ubuntu as pre-beta software, and it was the default! The things pulseaudio can do are amazing, but both distributions ... read all

  
  

  by Michael D on 07 Nov - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  Why do they install this junk by default on

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  Why do they install this junk by default on Ubuntu? ALSA can do audio mixing using dmix and it has been working fine for years until PulseAudio comes along and ... read all

  
  

  by User-402qsn on 29 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  It NEVER works right on ANY hardware. The worst

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  It NEVER works right on ANY hardware. The worst time was when it played for over an hour straight and then made horrible screeching noises at FULL VOLUME. This could ... read all

  
  

  by User-460z5j on 19 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  It NEVER works right on ANY hardware. The worst

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  It NEVER works right on ANY hardware. The worst time was when it played for over an hour straight and then made horrible screeching noises at FULL VOLUME. This could ... read all

  
  

  by User-460z5j on 19 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag
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  I have to uninstall pulseaudio and install esound

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  I have to uninstall pulseaudio and install esound in order to have sound in vlc and wine. In addition everything (sound wise) seems to work with fewer glitches. Who in ... read all

  
  

  by User-71460t on 16 Oct - reply - Helpful? YES  NO  Thank You! - Flag

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