[Bug 41599] Battle.net and Hearthstone play loud static when receiving messages

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41599

--- Comment #14 from Andrew Eikum <aeikum at codeweavers.com> ---
(In reply to celestialtuba from comment #11)
> (In reply to celestialtuba from comment #10)
> > I can confirm this is happening to me as well.  This was happening to me on
> > Ubuntu 14.04 using Wine 1.9.16, as well as on 4.8.8-2 Arch using 1.9.23.  It
> > started for me on the voice chat patch.  It does seem to be coming from
> > battle.net as others suggested, however in addition to whenever I receive a
> > /w, it also happens when one of my "favorite" friends logs on or off.  I'd
> > be happy to provide anything I can to try to help fix this issue.
> 
> Now that I think of it, I think this coincided with installing pulseaudio. 
> I remember I was relieved when I installed WoW on Arch that I wasn't getting
> the loud bursts of static anymore, and out of the blue it started happening
> again.  I did not connect the dots in my head until I saw someone say
> something about pulseaudio, so I think this may be a pulseaudio specific
> thing.

Nothing to do with PulseAudio. Likely your ALSA setup was allowing only one
application to play audio at a time, so the B.net client was unable to play its
broken audio. Installing PA allowed multiple applications to play audio, and
now you can hear the bug.

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