[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#531831: audacious corrupts its configuration files

[Steve McIntyre]

Package: audacious
Version: 1.5.1-4
Severity: serious

I started up audacious from the commane line. I realised that I had
not backgrounded it as I normally do, so hit ctrl-z to suspend. When I
backgrounded it using "bg", it seemed to start as normal but the sound
quality was horrific. As I had headphones, it was actually painful:
massive amounts of clipping.

Looking at the config file afterwards, I can see that it had changed
one of the settings:

saved_volume=25700

to

saved_volume=65535

I've seen this happen a couple of times now, but I can't reproduce it
at will which would suggest there is a timing problem involved.

Finally: why is it trying to change settings at startup?

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