I've just started noticing this recently, and I don't believe it was an issue with 0.9.7 so I'm wondering if it was due to something introduced in 0.9.8. When playing streams at/close to 100% volume, I get some pretty nasty static. Looking at pavumeter, it seems that anytime a channel goes over ~80% is when I hear the static. Setting a stream to a volume between 75 - 95% (depending on the source) makes the problem go away. Just to make sure it wasn't the sound card doing it, I tried playing the same song through mplayer, once using the pulse output, and once using direct ALSA output along with pasuspender. Any ideas? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20071217/82cf49fb/attachment.pgp>