[alsa-devel] Audio on Linux is a mess

[Fred .]

ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout
ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout
AL lib: alsa.c:344: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection refused
AL lib: oss.c:179: Could not open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyglet/media/drivers/openal/__init__.py",
line 340, in driver_init_device = alc.alcOpenDevice(device_name)

Audio on Linux is a mess.
I launch an Python script that uses audio then it breaks, and when the
Python script is closed, I still hear the audio skipping and repeating
like,
"kakakakakakaka" in infinite loop.
And PulseAudio seems to be frozen.
Then I kill PulseAudio and finally the audio noise stops.

Oh, and I heard OpenAL downsamples stereo to mono on Linux due to a bug.

Whole audio on Linux is just a big mess.