How to keep audio alive?

Issues & Assistance
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After a period of time when no audio is playing the audio drops. This stops sending an audio signal through my S/PDIF which causes my DAC/AMP to turn off shortly after. If I have my speakers turned on when this happens a loud pop occurs. Also, when I start playing audio again it takes a couple of second for the DAC/AMP to boot.

I am not seeing any options in audio settings to keep audio alive. Does this option exist or can it be added?

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I drop this textfile as "snd_hda_intel.conf" in /etc/modprobe.d on my Intel/Intel machines:

options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

regards

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Also check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Pops_when_starting_and_stopping_playback

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An ugly workaround might be to install an app like caffeine that may prevent this from happening. Again, not a proper fix, just an ugly workaround if you have no luck fixing things with a proper configuration file.

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LOL, wouldn’t you just know, there’s a proper way. :wink:

Thanks, @jonathon :slight_smile:

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