https://bugs.gentoo.org/516964
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -160,6 +160,17 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
   aa_flush (context);
   if (tolower (aa_getkey (context, 1)) != 'n')
     {
+      /* Unfortunately recently added native pulseaudio
+       * driver in libmikmod does not allow you to
+       * call 'MikMod_Update' in a non-blocking way.
+       *
+       * It's a known limitation of simple pulseaudio API
+       * thus we derevisted pulseaudio driver to fallback
+       * on alsa, oss or whatever used to work for user.
+       */
+      drv_pulseaudio.Name    = NULL;
+      drv_pulseaudio.Version = NULL;
+
       MikMod_RegisterAllDrivers ();
       MikMod_RegisterLoader (&load_s3m);
       /*md_mode |= DMODE_SOFT_MUSIC; */