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

[William Pitcock]

severity 531831 important
thanks

Audacious 2.x is more resilient to this sort of thing. Please see if it
still happens with Audacious 2.

William

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 11:38 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 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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