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    RetroPie x86 - audio 'pop' when loading games

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      Panja
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      Thanks again!
      Already set the Audio Device to PCM.
      Though I did it through Sound Settings in ES menu.
      After checking the file through SSH, it's indeed change to PCM.

      But without luck, problem remains.

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        Libation @Panja
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        @Panja Is this Stretch or Jessie? My research seems to indicate this issue happened with Jessie, but was fixed with Stretch.

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          Panja
          last edited by Panja

          I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.2 (Bionic Beaver), not running Debian or Rasbian.
          (It's running on x86 hardware)

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            Libation @Panja
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            @Panja Apologies my friend, I've gotta tap out. Beyond my level of knowledge. Hopefully one of the smarter people on this board chime in.

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              Panja
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              No worries man. Thanks for trying! Appreciated.

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                Panja
                last edited by Panja

                I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.2 and a fresh install of RetroPie.
                With this new installation I have found the problem (bug?)!

                When I disable navigation sounds in sounds settings (EmulationStation) the problem returns. When loading a game and the game starts: POP!
                When I enable navigation sounds in sounds settings (EmulationStation) the problem is gone!

                To be honest it's a but frustrating because I do not like the navigation sounds in my ES Theme but it's good that I found the problem...

                [update]
                Fixed it by creating a silent WAV file and replaced the navigation sound files in:
                /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/art
                There are 2 WAV files in there which I replaced. Probably only one was the culprit for me but I changed them both.

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                  movisman @Panja
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                  @Panja

                  Had originally replied over on the 18.04.1 thread which you posted on, but will reply here - glad to see you have a workaround for it.

                  I (think) my navigation sounds are turned on, need to check - also the theme I use (Chicuelo) doesn't have any wav files or scrolling sounds though, so I don't think i've ever played around with that setting. I don't get any pop or ALSA errors.

                  Do you still get ALSA related errors with the navigation sounds turned on? Or does that only appear when the option is turned off?

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                    Panja
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                    Sorry, been away from the keyboard for a few days.

                    Thanks for your replies!
                    I re-installed and I do not have any errors anymore.
                    Though I still have the POP sound when launching a game.
                    But fixed (workarounded) with a silent WAV file.

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                      Parabolaralus @Panja
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                      @Panja said in RetroPie x86 - audio 'pop' when loading games:

                      Sorry, been away from the keyboard for a few days.

                      Thanks for your replies!
                      I re-installed and I do not have any errors anymore.
                      Though I still have the POP sound when launching a game.
                      But fixed (workarounded) with a silent WAV file.

                      Well i switched to Kubuntu 19.04 at work this morning and came across your issue and since i remembered this post thought it would be nice to list my fix.

                      So the issue seems to be that after a few seconds of silence it would put the audio chip in sleep mode causing a pop whenever any audio file was being played afterwords...drove me nuts for the first few minutes setting up this thing and hearing a pop with every ding noise!

                      I came across this when googling it: Pop noise

                      If it goes down do the following:
                      sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

                      and at the very bottom add the following line:
                      options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N

                      Then probably reboot.

                      I hadn't been able to reproduce this before because my main machine is AMD and this problem is Intel specific.

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                        Panja
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                        Thanks for helping out mate, appreciated!
                        Will have a go with this in a few days and let you know.
                        Cheers.

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