ubuntu 5.10 sound problem (internet radio only)

[Default User]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 01:21 -0700, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:44:22PM -0500, Default User wrote:
> > I am puzzled by a sound problem. Sound is okay from a music cd in the cd
> > drive, and the event sounds which install by default with Ubuntu play
> > fine also. But internet radio (Shoutcast) through xmms sounds like:
> > 
> > 1) being under water
> > 2) gravelly
> > 3) like talking while gargling 
> 
> Is this reproducible through totem-gstreamer (presuming you have
> gstreamer0.8-mad installed) or gst-launch-0.8 (see the man page for
> syntax using spider)?
> 
> > FWIW, in the Gnome menu System/Preferences/Multimedia Systems Selector,
> > sink is set at ESD and source is set at OSS. Trying all combinations in
> > the Multimedia Systems Selector did not solve the problem, and some just
> > plain locked up when clicking the test button. 
> 
> The Default Audio Sink should be set to ALSA, not ESD. The Default
> Audio Source should be set to either silence or OSS.

The audio sink tests ok whether ESD or ALSA.  Audio source will not test
ok whether silence or OSS. Both are now set to the defaults you
mentioned.  

With gstreamer0.8-mad installed, I did: 
  
gst-launch filesrc location=song32.mp3 ! mad ! osssink

to play an .mp3 from the current directory. It sounds fine! 

But in xmms, that .mp3 file sounds garbled.  Note that xmms plays a
cd .wav file ok.  So, it would appear not to be a problem with internet
radio (Shoutcast), but with playing .mp3 formattted files and streams. 

So is there a way to get xmms and/or streamtuner to play .mp3 formatted
sounds?  BTW, here's the output of lsmod: 


Module                  Size  Used by

isofs                  32824  0
udf                    75524  0
nls_utf8                2176  2
nls_cp437               5888  2
vfat                   12288  2
fat                    46492  1 vfat
rfcomm                 34972  0
l2cap                  22404  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              43012  4 rfcomm,l2cap
cpufreq_userspace       4444  0
cpufreq_stats           5124  0
freq_table              4484  1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave       1920  0
cpufreq_ondemand        5916  0
cpufreq_conservative     6820  0
video                  16004  0
tc1100_wmi              6916  0
sony_acpi               5516  0
pcc_acpi               11392  0
hotkey                  9508  0
dev_acpi               11396  0
i2c_acpi_ec             5760  0
button                  6672  0
battery                 9604  0
container               4608  0
ac                      4996  0
ipv6                  217408  6
af_packet              20232  2
floppy                 52692  0
pcspkr                  3652  0
rtc                    11832  0
snd_ens1371            22240  1
gameport               14472  1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi            22816  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device          8204  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         72188  1 snd_ens1371
snd_pcm_oss            46368  0
snd_mixer_oss          16128  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                78344  3 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21764  1 snd_pcm
snd                    48644  10
snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9184  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10120  1 snd_pcm
i2c_ali1535             6788  0
i2c_ali15x3             7172  0
i2c_core               19728  3 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3
pci_hotplug            24628  0
ali_agp                 6656  1
agpgart                32328  1 ali_agp
tsdev                   7616  0
evdev                   9088  0
psmouse                26116  0
mousedev               10912  1
parport_pc             31812  1
lp                     11460  0
parport                32072  2 parport_pc,lp
sd_mod                 17424  4
md                     40656  0
ext3                  115976  2
jbd                    48536  1 ext3
dm_mod                 50364  4
thermal                13192  0
processor              23100  1 thermal
fan                     4740  0
usb_storage            64704  4
scsi_mod              124872  2 sd_mod,usb_storage
natsemi                23904  0
ohci_hcd               18564  0
usbcore               104188  3 usb_storage,ohci_hcd
ide_cd                 36996  0
cdrom                  33952  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               16128  4
ide_generic             1664  0
alim15x3               11020  1
ide_core              125268  5
usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,alim15x3
unix                   24624  765
vesafb                  8088  0
capability              5000  0
commoncap               6784  1 capability
vga16fb                12232  1
vgastate                8320  1 vga16fb
softcursor              2432  2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbimgblt               2944  2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbfillrect             3840  2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbcopyarea             4480  2 vesafb,vga16fb
fbcon                  34176  72
tileblit                2560  1 fbcon
font                    8448  1 fbcon
bitblit                 5248  1 fbcon 

Any clues there? 

Extra info: during system startup, the screen slowly scrolls through a
list of system startup tasks, stating OK after each one. Except the line
about starting hotplug, which just has a blank where I would expect
(hope) to see OK.  May I assume that means the system is not running
hotplug? I don't know why. Is that bad?