Fix Popping with Pulseaudio when Playing Audio After a Period of Silence

Update: It’s a few years later and now all relevant distributions have moved to Pipewire. For an updated way to disable suspend using Wireplumber, see this article.

When I got all fancy and moved to the 5.x kernel and Pulseaudio 12.2, I had one big new problem: My sound card would make an ugly popping noise every time it started playing sound again. Very, very 90s.

Fortunately, this can be fixed. Thanks to hateball for this solution. Stick this in your ~/.config/pulse/default.pa:

.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
unload-module module-suspend-on-idle

And kill/restart pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k.

Stolen from the Arch wiki.

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