I now believe this is an issue related to the glitch-free mode of pulseaudio.
I have for now used the tsched=0 workaround in default.pa, and the issues seem to have been resolved. presumably this is a regression in pulseaudio or alsa since Maverick, since it was working perfectly before I upgraded to Natty. ** Summary changed: - audio stream keeps becoming corrupted when listening to music + pulseaudio glitch-free mode causes audio to break after a while on snd_hda_intel -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761312 Title: pulseaudio glitch-free mode causes audio to break after a while on snd_hda_intel -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs