Issues with sound quality

[ggi at st-andrews.ac.uk]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:42 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> >

Playing a .wav file with aplay sounds fine. Playing a .wav file with totem
results in the hissing and such.

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