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Martillo1

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From: My kabila in Lavapiés

Registered: 2004-02-20

Posts: 66

XMMS

Hi, since I experimented with the sound of the MB (nForce2 MCP not Soundstorm) I cannot get a clear sound while listening music. There are plenty of noise and cracks.

I went back to the Sound Blaster Live! and now I got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, but the problem persists. However Rhythmbox works fine. What can be the problem?

Mmmm, sometimes it seems to me that there is saturation when using Rhythmbox, but I cannot say for sure...

The Katta

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From: Milan - Italy

Registered: 2004-07-28

Posts: 14

Re: XMMS

me too.
the problem started about 2-3 days ago and i have no idea

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: XMMS

what output plugin do you use in xmms?

rhythmbox uses, i think, esd - xmms also have esound output

what kernel? (if(2.4)what alsa version?)

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Martillo1

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From: My kabila in Lavapiés

Registered: 2004-02-20

Posts: 66

Re: XMMS

I use alsa for xmms. The kernel is "Linux version 2.6.8.1 (root@earth) (gcc version 3.4.1)".

Both rhythmbox and xmms seem to me to saturate at high frequencies and the quality of the sound is kind of harsh. It should not happen with and Audigy 2 ZS (I hope ).

In W2k Doom III, music & sounds play fine, but I will test RealPlayer & Creative MediaSource today to discard hardware problems, but it happened with the Live! as well.

edit:

It happens more in downloaded mp3, but I it also happens in ripped ones although not so hard. I have recently switched to my old speakers Cambridge 4.1 to play Doom III properly (after going back to the Sb Live! from the AC97 codec and before installing th Audigy). Could it have something to do with the problem perhaps?

edit:

Name           : alsa-lib
Version        : 1.0.6-1

I do not use alsa-driver since the kernel 2.6 do not requires it.

Sound modules:

snd_emu10k1           102920  6
snd_rawmidi            26660  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device          8584  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         71684  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_util_mem            5120  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               9988  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss            57384  0
snd_pcm               104708  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         12168  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_timer              28164  1 snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          20992  3 snd_pcm_oss

snd                    60260  17 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore              11104  3 snd

edit:

W2k works perfect.

Martillo1

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From: My kabila in Lavapiés

Registered: 2004-02-20

Posts: 66

Re: XMMS

Well, maybe is a matter of keeping the slides at medium level so as not to saturate the software and using the external amplifier's volume control...