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merc68k

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Registered: 2011-08-07

Posts: 25

Clicks/Pops while playing audio

Hi all, in the last week or so I've started getting clicks/pops while playing back audio, either through my browser (Chromium/Firefox) or using Audacious.  Has anyone else run into this?  It would seem to be due to a recent update, maybe the latest PulseAudio?

Installed packages (latest as of today)

pulseaudio 10.0-2
chromium 56.0.2924.76-1
firefox 51.0.1-1

Audio hardware:

$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31)

Thanks in advance,

blahhumbug

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Registered: 2016-10-08

Posts: 64

Re: Clicks/Pops while playing audio

Do you happen to also use pulseaudio-equalizer?   If so, do the pops/clicks still happen if you choose the non-equalizer output?

mis

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Registered: 2016-03-16

Posts: 234

Re: Clicks/Pops while playing audio

Have you tried this already? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … _crackling

merc68k

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Registered: 2011-08-07

Posts: 25

Re: Clicks/Pops while playing audio

@blahhumbug, I'm not using the pulseaudio-equalizer, so it's not related to that, but thanks anyway.
@mis, No I haven't tried the steps in that guide yet, since it seemed to start after an update.  Maybe I'll try some of those suggestions anyway just in case one of them fixes it, thanks.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,626

Re: Clicks/Pops while playing audio

Might also have been a kernel change, sunrise point HD audio points to an integrated creative card, where exact workings and support are not really known and a chance that this has been broken in some form is possible. You might want to try an older kernel respectively linux-lts to rule that out

SanTDR

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Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 9

Re: Clicks/Pops while playing audio

I just wanted to report that I'm experiencing the same problem with pulseaudio 10.0-2 but with different hardware than merc68k, leading me to exclude hardware specific issues.

lspci | grep -i audio
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)