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xxxlam · Joined: 28 Jul 2011 Posts: 18 Location: South East Asia

Hello Puppy Linux community!

I am having a problem about the sound. I don't really know what's the cause but when I first installed (first use) Slako, it sounds really fine. In fact I watched some movie clips and played a couple of music using Gnome-Mplayer 1.0.4... When I booted again, It sounds really bad; especially the base sounds like scratches and I do not know why... I tried adjusting all the volume controls but no luck. I tried adjusting all controls in alsaconf, alsamixer, and alsawizard but no luck.

According to hardinfo -r -f html my audio controller (which I believe it's my on-board sound card) is;
"Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB".

Thanks in helping guys. I believe it's just a miss-configuration and I can't figure it out why.

(Lots of Love (LOL))

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 465

a recording of the distorted sound could help diagnosis.

possibly via a desktop recorder or Audacity.

xxxlam · Joined: 28 Jul 2011 Posts: 18 Location: South East Asia

I think you didn't get it... my sound playback sounds bad. But thanks anyway, I had solved my own problem. A while a back I was using Gnome-MPlayer and it was indeed the problem. I tried playing my music through PMusic and works fine!

Cheers!

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Hi

I think Barkin was requesting a recording of the playback to help with diagnosing the problem. seems strange pmusic is okay but not gnome-player. Do you know specifically what was causing the problem with gnome-player, a bad setting or something?

Twisted Evil

xxxlam · Joined: 28 Jul 2011 Posts: 18 Location: South East Asia

Recording you say? Mmm... I'm just playing some downloaded mp3's. The crappy sound comes when it plays lower frequencies; about 20Hz~800Hz? I'm not really sure but when it plays the loud part of the music, it sounds like scratches...

Currently playing with Pmusic and it plays well, after reading your posts I tried to use Gnome-MPlayer again and it's the same; crappy. Anyway, not really a big deal for me, now.

=}

bigpup · Posted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 01:10 Post subject:

Have you tried changing the audio output settings in Gnome Mplayer->Edit->Preferences?

xxxlam · Joined: 28 Jul 2011 Posts: 18 Location: South East Asia

Definitely. I tested all of them and it seems nothing has changed.
Request granted, I uploaded the recording of my music; pardon me because it is hip-hop.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

try this in a terminal window:

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 465

xxxlam · Joined: 28 Jul 2011 Posts: 18 Location: South East Asia

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Ok, you seem to have a problem, not related to file compression. ( I looked at the youtube video )

There are other media players in the PPM, such as VLC, Xine, Smplayer and Umplayer (the latter 2 both depend on Mplayer). If you install at least 1 of the first 2 and 1 of the last 2 and test we can at best deduce what the problem is, or at least satisfy your ear drums Wink

HTH

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 465

consentient · Joined: 23 Oct 2012 Posts: 23

I had the same problem with Mplayer.

Solved it by going into Preferences and putting a tick in the box that says:-

"Enable AC3/DTS pass-through to S/PDIF"

After that the sound was clear.

I hope this helps others.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Thanks for posting solution, I've added a link to this thread to the wiki.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SoundSystem

Cool