Comment 518 for bug 371897

Predictions made by <email address hidden> (Martin Jürgens ) on "2007-11-18 13:13:06 CST" are basically already true today. Many distros have switched to using pulse audio as their default-shipped audio system, and many things have audio issues on these distros when run in wine, DESPITE the distros patching in winepulse support (that outside devs had to create because wine devs couldn't be bothered).

The reality of the situation is that pulse is not completely back-compatible to alsa,and this creates problems that could potentially be avoided by wine. It might be pulseaudio's fault, but defining where blame lies isn't important, a functional application that doesn't require extensive user intervention IS. You guys really ought to get on top of this sooner rather than later.