--- libao2/ao_alsa9.c.orig	Wed Jul 30 11:29:25 2003
+++ libao2/ao_alsa9.c	Wed Jul 30 13:22:45 2003
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@
     printf("alsa-play: write error %s", snd_strerror(res));
     return 0;
   }
-  return res < 0 ? (int)res : len;
+  return res < 0 ? (int)res : len - len % bytes_per_sample;
 }
 
 /* mmap-mode mainly based on descriptions by Joshua Haberman <joshua@haberman.com>