[pulseaudio-discuss] Problem with USB sound card - clicks and pops on re-open

[Arun Raghavan]

On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 17:18 +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
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> Is there any way to have pulseaudio keep the device open at all times? 
> Or some other way to debug this?

Disable the loading of module-suspend-on-idle in /etc/pulse/default.pa.
I'm assuming you don't care about the resulting power consumption. :)

-- Arun