[PROBLEM] Losing sound with pulseaudio

[grandcanyon]

I just installed Xbian and then I enabled the repo to install Nexus on a RPi 3+. I've been using kodi for awhile as I originally was on arch and then I moved to Raspberry OS Lite. I wanted a complete OS/Kodi system that allows some flexibility with adding packages so I went with Xbian. On Arch and Rpi OS Lite, I was dogged by issues with inputstream.ffmpedirect since I had to compile it. I followed the instructions but still ended up with intermittent issues. I've also had issues with pulseaudio

I am still having issues where pulseaudio drops out on Xbian. I just want pulseaudio so I can connect my BT headphones every so often. I have my Rpi connected to my TV with an HDMI cable. Sometimes when I have PA issues with Xbian I can just change the audio profile to a different source like PI: HDMI and for some reason a bit later I can switch to the Default PA profile and it starts working again. Sometimes I lose audio completely and have to reboot (log said something about can't flush) The kodi log was complaining about the passthrough module not being loaded so I added this to the /etc/pulse/default.pa. Kodi does seem to work best for pulseaudio when I set it to default PA and enable passthrough to PI:HDMI.

Anyone have any tips. I guess I could keep the audio profile at PI:HDMI and just switch to default (pulseaudio when I need to connect my headphones as they connect automatically when I turn them on and kodi will pipe it out to the headphones if I'm set to default pulse audio profile.