2009-09-20: With alsa-gapless output plugin in 2.2-alpha1 on Fedora 11 the poll() playback freezes have returned for me. [...] $ md5sum audacious-plugins-2.2-alpha1.tgz 172ea9937709f2dcb73fd4a93355d6df audacious-plugins-2.2-alpha1.tgz contains a new 3rd generation "alsa-gapless" output plugin, which may or may not fix some of the problems with playback. "alsa-ng" seems to be quite susceptible to underruns (snd_pcm_writei() -EPIPE rv), especially together with alsa-plugins-pulseaudio + PulseAudio.