Two problems with sound

[Brian Bober]

There are two problems I am having with sound on fedora that never happened
when I had installed alsa on my own. Problem one is that applications seem to
hog the sound, and when I, say, play a song, then after I hear all the sounds
like IM sounds and stuff that should have happened during the time the song was
playing.

The other problem is that ever time sound ends, I hear this big high pitched
clicking sound.