Issues with sound quality

[Jan Schmidt]

<quote who="ggi at st-andrews.ac.uk">
> Quoting Jan Schmidt <thaytan at mad.scientist.com>:
> > <quote who="ggi at st-andrews.ac.uk">
> > > Yes, it makes no difference. It isn't that sort of hiss. Muine plays the
> > same
> > > stuff perfectly, at the same volume, presumably by using the alsa device
> > > directly (well, through xine-lib).
> > > 
> > 
> > If it's a OSS-emulation versus ALSA problem, you might like to try running
> > gstreamer-properties and set it to use ALSA as output.
> 
> I tried that, but attempting to test it results in gstreamer-properties giving
> an error message:
> 
> Failed to construct test pipeline for 'ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound
> Architecture'
> 
> Trying to play a song in Rhythmbox simply crashes it with ALSA selected.
> 

Make sure gstreamer0.8-alsa is installed.

J.
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Jan Schmidt                                  thaytan at mad.scientist.com

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