I can confirm that @robertjjoynt's comment works very well on my HP
ProBook 650 G1 pc which is currently operating ubuntu 18.04 (long card
name: "HDA Intel HDMI at 0xd073 irq 33).
I should say that the sound still clips every so often, but I can
finally listen to Smashmouth in peace while work
Removing the package and re-installing worked around the same issue for
me.
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package python-pysnmp-common 4.1.9a-1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to
overwrite '/usr/share/pyshared/pysnmp/__init__.py', which is also in package
python-pysnmp2 0:2.0.9-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624540