[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 #15 from celestialtuba at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #14)
> (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.

That sounds sensible.  Thanks for the explanation!

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