[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #496: Airport Express is locked after stopping an RAOP stream

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#496: Airport Express is locked after stopping an RAOP stream
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  Reporter:  clconway  |       Owner:  coling          
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  assigned        
 Milestone:            |   Component:  module-raop-*   
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  module-raop-sink
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Comment(by throughnothing):

 I've noticed (by using nethogs) that whenever I check the  "Make
 discoverable Apple AirTunes sound devices available locally" box in the
 PulseAudio Preferences, that it instantly finds my Airport Express, and
 pulse audio begins to chew up network, apparently sending to the device.
 As soon as I turn this option on, pulseaudio sends a steady stream of
 150k/s to up to 300k/s presumably to the airport express.  Of course this
 happens when no sounds are playing from my computer at all.  As soon as I
 uncheck that option in the preferences, all of the network traffic stops.

 When I'm doing this test, I disable all other network stuff in pulseaudio,
 so I'm not positive if this bug/behavior spills over into other pulsaudio
 network shares, etc.  Is it standard for pulseaudio to constantly send
 (presumably) empty data to network sinks just because they exist?  This
 seems pretty wasteful, and it forces me to turn off this option except
 when I actually want to use it just because it eats up my bandwidth and
 hits my network pretty hard.

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