clicking noise upon "pause" and "continue"

Workaround:
enable crossfade engine in Rhythmbox.

Note:
the crossfade engine configuration needs some love..
i have only a few millimeters slider to set the crossfade time usefully to something between 0 and 2 seconds

i think the crossfade engine needs to focus on everything below 15sec, instead of offering a 60sec crossfade.
what are the use cases of such long crossfades?

Considering MPRIS does support volume change this is something that could be working on easily.
thx Frederick.

Anytime, Conor!
let me know in case you need any more info to close this bug..
happy new year ;)

Opinion:
EMU Samplers used to autocreate microfades at every start|stop playback
event.. in the millisecond range.
Just to make sure that non-continuous wave-information doesn't make the
hardware "crackle", "pop", "plop" or "click" ;)

What do you need the opinion on? Whether to implement microfades at all,
whether to implement them in MPRIS, Rhythmbox or PA or whether this bug can
be confirmed in the first place?

I stand to my suggestion to use Tape-stops in Rhythmbox's case, but that's
not a generic solution i know.

Okay so I would prefer for the players to handle this internally. Spamming the dbus with exponential fades everytime a direct user transport action occurs is not ideal. The second part to this would be to build a pulse module to do an automatic fade on mute.

yeah, a sane setting such as X-Fade engine set to something < .5 sec in Rhythmbox should fix this for Maverick users.
Would it be ok to ship that sort of setting per default?
The fade on mute idea sounds mature and very elegant..

Yeah, this is something for the players to handle.

Odd, I thought the clicking problems were purely hardware-related, and fixed with the whole bunch of hda_power_save bugfixes.