Issues with sound quality

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 06:20:24PM +0100, ggi at st-andrews.ac.uk wrote:

> I have no problems playing music in Muine. Well, almost no problems. It
> worked fine, until I tested ogg123, which produced slightly less hissing
> than gstreamer, and more crackling and popping. This is still pretty
> odd, as I would expect ogg123 to play a file perfectly. Presumably
> ogg123 is using OSS output. ALSA output doesn't seem to work (in ogg123
> or gstreamer, even with esd disabled). Anyway, after testing ogg123, the
> crackling/hissing starts in Muine. Very odd. It doesn't seem to be a
> hardware issue. Is this a known problem with gstreamer/esd?

It certainly sounds like a hardware issue.  Try playing a .wav file with
aplay and direct ALSA output as a test.

Please follow-up to ubuntu-users; this is not a development issue.

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 - mdz