[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#689725: alsa-utils: Notable sound delay after pausing the playback

[Frank]

On 10/06/2012 01:04 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>> Package: alsa-utils
>> Version: 1.0.25-3
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> When I pause the sound player, whatever the player is, say, mplayer, vlc,
>> cmus, etc, the sound is ongoing about about 0.2 second before it stops.
> This is not reproducible for me.
>
> 2 tenth of one second. Uuuh, that is not that important ;-)
>
I have some friends suffering the same problem. Um, mostly, two tenths 
of one second is not that important (for example, a good music is 
euphonious whether two tenths is missing), but it affects my 
transcription. Well, anyway, I should concede that I chose the wrong level.
> Of course not. Please just purge alsa-utils and try again....
>
>> ======
>> Some outputs of mplayer2:
>> ======
>>
>> AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
>> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>> [AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'Master',0.
> Your soundcard doesn't seem to be configured very well. Please
> delete /var/lib/alsa/asound.state, restart alsa and try again. This
> works only if alsa-utils is installed.
Hum, I purged alsa-utils and reinstalled, deleted 
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state and ran
# service alsa-utils restart
But "unable to find ..." remained.

Postscript: my USB sound card is ugly. I remember somebody (maybe you) 
told me to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:
# options snd-usb-audio index=-2
I don't know whether it affects.
> Elimar
Sincerely, thanks!
Frank