Issues with sound quality

[Jan Schmidt]

<quote who="ggi at st-andrews.ac.uk">
> I mentioned this on #ubuntu-devel, but it appeared to go unacknowledged.
> Basically, Rhythmbox introduces nasty (occasional) hissing when playing
> music. Of course, this isn't the fault of Rhythmbox. I remember a
> gstreamer problem I had on Debian a while ago that caused similar, if
> not identical, behaviour. I believe that was fixed though. Listening to
> the esd output test in gstreamer-properties the hissing and such can be
> heard quite clearly.

It sounds like a mixer problem - have you tried turning down the PCM and/or
Master mixer sliders slightly?

J.
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