Audio issues

[Mr_Magoo]

This might be due to the sound service suspend-on-idle.

More info:

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If you're wondering

If you're wondering why (as I did), when you test your speakers, one speaker seems to be louder than the other despite the fact that you've got the Balance set to the middle position: pactl list Module #23 Name: module-position-event-sounds Argument: Usage counter: n/a Properties: module.author = "Lennart Poettering" module.description = "Position event sounds between L and R depending on the position on screen of the widget triggering them." module.version = "13.99.1" I have Conky t…

If you still have issues with audio cutting out, you can try editing /etc/pulse/default.pa.
Change:

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

To:

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
# load-module module-suspend-on-idle

And edit /etc/pulse/system.pa.
Change:

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

To:

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
# load-module module-suspend-on-idle

Then issue:
pactl unload-module module-suspend-on-idle

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