Comment 9 for bug 488981

Indeed its wishlist but it also solves a lot of glitches and bugs in Wine. In my opinion the Audio at the moment is a showstopper for it.

I really think this is not a "Opinion" but more a workaround until the new architecture based on OpenAL makes it into Wine. I don't see why adding this patch would cause any problems. It's already there and as long as people don't change their settings they don't get affected at all by it.

Keep in mind that this will just be another option for sound output and not a replacement for the ALSA backend. Ubuntu decided to move to PulseAudio but didn't offer any solutions for this over the last releases.