[TriLUG] Why does Linux sound Still SUCK

[Robby Dermody]

With Winamp, go to the preferences and see what "output plugin" you're
using (OSS or alsa, etc)...perhaps you can fiddle there.

Just a thought if you want to find the culprit,

Robby

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 12:38, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> 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
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> > Running on Mandrake 8.2 - Kernel  2.4.18-6mdk     Linux Machine # 38068
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