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SDL would work great, if wine was an emulator.

I can't see how adding in another layer of abstraction would help.  From
what I understand the SDL portion(backend selection) is implemented as
built-in dlls.

Switching to SDL now causes problems with current configuration.  This
bug is open because a single backend for every app was never going to
work.

Currently I've apps that need the PA driver and apps that need alsa to
PA and apps that need alsa with no PA.  It's true that all apps would
likely work without PA, but as my system uses SPDIF i'm dependent on PA
for software mixing....  and for the last time dmix and SPDIF are
mutually exclusive as dmix requires parts of a DAC that exist only on
the other end of the optical cable(if they exist at all).

No one backend is closer to being a good fit than any of the others.
For all use cases having a good selection of backends is essential.

If you can time travel a working wine version from the future that would
be nice, but until you can offer a "does work in all cases", wine is
broken for some cases and won't be fixed...  By patching the alsa
backend to support PA.

Though a patch for a native PA backend does exist and this solution is
available for more than a few years, instead of a few years from now.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371897

Title:
  Occasional sound drops in Wine via PulseAudio

Status in Wine:
  Confirmed
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in wine package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: wine

  I'm running the Spotify Windows application on two laptops under Wine
  with both internal and external USB sound card. With both cards you
  get the occasional pop and click in the sound suggesting some data
  loss somewhere.

  I've selected the alsa drivers in winecfg and the whole thing is
  running via the alsa compatibility layer in pulseaudio.

  Jaunty 9.04 UNR and standard Ubuntu desktop.

  wine:
    Installed: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
    Candidate: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
    Version table:
   *** 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  pulseaudio:
    Installed: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20
    Candidate: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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