Issues with sound quality

[ggi at st-andrews.ac.uk]

Quoting Jan Schmidt <thaytan at mad.scientist.com>:

> > > 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.

Uhm, it is. Isn't gstreamer's ALSA support quite bad though? It used to be, at
least.

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