Sound playback stops working with PulseAudio 16.1 on track position changes

M4he commented 11 months ago

Before posting

Please follow the steps below and check the boxes with [x] once you did the step.

[x] I checked the issue tracker for similar issues
[x] I checked the changelog if the issue is already resolved
[ ] I tried the latest Clementine build from here
- haven't tried this, the build system does not build .deb packages for Debian bookworm yet

System information

Please provide information about your system and the version of Clementine used.

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Clementine version: Clementine 1.4 rc2
PulseAudio version: 16.1

Expected behaviour / actual behaviour

Expected behaviour:

Clementine should continue to be able to output audio regardless of how frequent the track position is changed.

Actual behaviour:

Using the PulseAudio output module, sound output of Clementine will stop working at one of the following occasions:

if repeatedly clicking on the progress slider to change the track position
randomly by itself at track changes

The second one is not as common and harder to reproduce but the first one is easily reproducible.

When the sound stops playing, the following is logged by PulseAudio to the syslog:

pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue
pulseaudio[1730]: Failed to push data into queue

The only way to revive the audio output is to click "Stop" and then "Play" again, effectively restarting the output module.

Steps to reproduce the problem (only for bugs)

in Tools > Preferences > Playback > Audio output set the Output device to "Default device on Plays audio to a PulseAudio server"
start playing a track
repeatedly click at different positions on the progress slider
eventually observe the progress bar freezing and sound stop playing

At this stage only pressing "Stop" and then "Play" again will revive audio playback from Clementine.

Notes

this does not happen to other audio players using PulseAudio on the same system, e.g. Audacious
observed on two different systems:
1. desktop PC with FiiO E10K USB DAC as output device
2. laptop with integrated Intel HD audio over headphone jack
switching to ALSA by changing the output device to "Default device on Output to a sound card via ALSA" seems to make the issue disappear completely (requires gstreamer1.0-alsa to be installed)

kr5ture commented 10 months ago

Got the same issue. Apparently changing output device [from Choose automatically] to Default device on Output to a sound card via ALSA resolved it on my side too, thanks for sharing this!

W055 commented 9 months ago

Found the same behavior with clementine 1.4 rc2 and pulseaudio 15.99.1 under linux mint 21.2

vmicho commented 6 months ago

Can confirm on Linuxmint 21.2, clementine 1.4 rc2, using internal or external(usb) cards.

Also can confirm selecting "Default device on Output to a sound card via ALSA" fixes the issue. Selecting the similar option "Default device on Plays audio to a PulseAudio server" has still the issue.

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