Issues with sound quality

[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.

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