This probably isn't a pavucontrol bug, but I can observe the bug in pavucontrol. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start playing something with paplay. 2. Open pavucontrol, open the Output Devices tab. 3. Stop paplay in the middle of the file (so that it stops at a time when there's no silence). Expected outcome: The sink volume meter in pavucontrol shows no activity. Actual outcome: The sink volume meter jumps up a bit and then goes back to zero, jumps up again etc. It looks like pavucontrol receives some buffer containing a bit of audio over and over again in a loop.
This happens for me too. Stopping or pausing play in spotify. Using XFCE4 as DE, haven't tested in Gnome-shell.
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