Bug 267155

Summary: Pidgin notification sounds have a bad crackle.
Product: [Applications] kmix Reporter: elbarto
Component: generalAssignee: Christian Esken <esken>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: elbarto
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description elbarto 2011-02-25 16:23:08 UTC 
Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

I've seen this bug reported before and misdiagnosed multiple times.  I think people believe that it's been fixed, but I can verify that it's been happening to me over several KDE versions on several different machines with different sound cards, so it's not an isolated thing.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Run pidgin.
Turn on notification sounds.


Actual Results:  
Crackles mixed in to notification sounds

Expected Results:  
No crackles. :)

IMPORTANT:  If I turn the volume on pidgin *way* down (to 30% or so), the crackling stops.  Unfortunately, this is very difficult, because pidgin's volume slider only appears during the actual notification sound and I have to catch it quickly with the mouse.  This is a bad work-around because a) it's extremely difficult to do, b) it shouldn't crackle at the default volume, and c) it makes Pidgin's notifications too quiet.  Anyway, I'm assuming there's clipping happening at some point, since it's likely it would continue to crackle otherwise regardless of volume.
Comment 1 elbarto 2011-02-25 16:27:52 UTC 
Looks like I should have submitted this bug to kmix.
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2011-02-25 23:58:43 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like I should have submitted this bug to kmix.

Or to pidgin...
Comment 3 Christian Esken 2011-08-17 19:37:41 UTC 
At this point I don't see any relationship with KMix. Closing Bug.
Please report this to Pidgin.