OK. It sounds like the desktop-icons extension blocking is the main problem here. A secondary problem, which might be an unfixable design choice, is that it sounds like PulseAudio clients can block the sound of the entire server.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New ** Also affects: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852018 Title: Audio Stops Playing Briefly When Emptying Trash Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package in Ubuntu: New Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am running Ubuntu 19.10 and encountered this issue. I had a podcast playing in the background on Firefox v. 70.0.1 and I was deleting some files. I then proceeded to empty the trash and saw that the audio stops briefly till the "Empty all items from Trash?" prompt shows up. I was able to duplicate this many times and it even occurred with audio on Chrome. The expected way for things to work would be the audio keeps on playing, if I just empty the trash. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/+bug/1852018/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp