pulseaudio borked

After the latest upgrade of mpg123 and mpg123-pulse from 1.25.10 to 1.31.3 and pulseaudio from 11.1 to 16.1 pulseaudio output in mpg123 became unusable - stuttering and stopping all the time with no significant CPU load. Downgrading mpg123 without downgrading pulseaudio didn't resolve this issue, s

issue when piping from a windows program

I am trying to feed the output of wmic.exe - a windows console program, to cygwin bash script. wmic.exe produces UTF16LE output with BOM and CR/LFs, so I am using dos2unix to convert it. The problem is that when I write wmic.exe output to a file and then use dos2unix to convert this file I ge