[TriLUG] Why does Linux sound Still SUCK

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Freeamp works great!  Thanks!  no idea why the others suck so much on my
hardware.

On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 00:09, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> A Saturday 18 May 2002 09:35 am, Andrew C. Oliver va escriure:
> > Hi All,
> 
> Hi there
> 
> > On Windows, if you play an MPEG and kick off your compiler everything
> > is generally okay.  Rarely will you hear even a skip.  On linux it
> > totally hoses it (still) and generally you get static etc.
> 
> Really? 
> 
> > Generally I use plaympeg to play my mp3s.  Is there something better?
> 
> xmms , freeamp
> 
> > And why does this happen so much more frequently?  (Looking for a
> > technical explanation)  -- I don't know jack about programming sound
> > stuff but it would seem that by now this should be up to near the
> > same quality.  Is it the player, is it the linux sound system?
> 
> > Hopefully when I blow my tax refund on the new dual athlon
> > motherbaord it won't happen anymore anyhow ;-)
> 
> > -andy
> 
> Andy,
> 
> My LinuxBoxen is my one and only spound system at home. It performs 
> pretty well: good quality of sound, no glitches no nothing. It sees 
> heavy use (yes, I like music a lot, specialy talented guitar virtuosos, 
> heavymetal and electronic music). I've used it in 2 partys so far, as 
> the jukebox (?) with great success.
> 
> My system:
> 
> - All-powerfull AMD K6-2-400
> - 256 MB RAM
> - SoundBlaster PCI64 ("Ensoniq 1370")
> - Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0, all bells'n'whistles turned on
> - home server, firewall, plenty'a'services
> - using xmms through aRTSd and ALSA
> 
> **But** 
> 
> With the original ALSA drivers from Mandrake 8.1, I had problems of bad 
> sound, lots of "noise", bad bad bad sound...
> 
> I reported a bug to xmms.org, 'cause I thought that xmms was to blame. 
> They found out that ALSA was to blame.
> 
>  http://bugs.xmms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445
> 
> Maybe your problem is similar. Enter a bug against your audio system.
> 
> Now I use:
> 
> libalsa1-0.5.10b-1mdk
> xmms-1.2.7-4mdk
> kernel-2.4.18-6mdk
> arts-2.2.2-48mdk
> arts3-1.0.0-4mdk
> libarts3-1.0.0-4mdk
> libarts2-2.2.2-48mdk
> xmms-arts-0.4-8mdk
> libqt2-2.3.1-29mdk
> libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk
> kdebase-2.2.2-93mdk
> kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0-19mdk
> kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.2-93mdk
> kdebase3-3.0-19mdk
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
> -- 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
> Running on Mandrake 8.2 - Kernel  2.4.18-6mdk     Linux Machine # 38068
> _______________________________________________
> TriLUG mailing list
>     http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ:
>     http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
-- 
http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in
Java                            
http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project
structure
		    a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects!
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
vote.
-Ambassador Kosh