Yes, this is known by the pulseaudio upstream developers. Work needs to be done on making the raop support code run more cleanly and less crasy/flaky. The only real work-around at the moment is to enable/disable the raop plugin in the config files for pulse, found in /etc/pulse.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782860 Title: Pulseaudio consumes approx 1.5MBps of network when it sees an Airport Express -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs