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david
11-24-2000, 03:44 PM
I got my sound card working, and it can play mp3's, but they sound like ****. So I went and tried mpg123, and they sounded good, until i went and DID something in X, and I' would like to use XMMS for this.
What I would like to do, is hopefully find a better mp3 decoder, or make the mp3 decoder/player take system priority, like winamp does.
Is this possible?
yes, do a search on setting priority. BTW, XMMS is just a gui frontend to mpg123.
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klamath
11-24-2000, 05:43 PM
Well, XMMS is more than a front-end. It embeds the mpg123 decoder as the default output plugin, that's all.
How exactly do the mp3s 'sound like ****'? What's the problem?
Try FreeAmp (another GUI app), or mp3blaster (ncurses, console based).
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The King Ant
11-24-2000, 06:38 PM
It's possible that you've just got your volume gain turned way up so it gets all distorted, then the master volume is turned down a lot...
david
11-24-2000, 11:17 PM
Well, when i try to do anything after i get a song playing, it still plays, but sounds distorted. I've found way around this, a bit. I put it on mono instead of stereo, and it sounds fine that way, but, call me a picky litte bastard, I WANT STEREO!! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
StarWeaver
11-25-2000, 02:42 AM
What kind of machine are you running... mp3s take -some- power (esp 320bitrate ones :), so if you're on a real low end system the cpu use might trash it. Or maybe it's a sound effect in X that's screwing it up, though i would guess that that isn't it if mono fixes it. Mono does take less power i think though so... :\
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david
11-25-2000, 05:46 PM
Yeah, it is a pretty crappy system, but it workks fairly well in windows. AMD K6-2 333, 64mb EDO RAM, and 100mb swap partition.
It skips sometimes in windows, when i connect to the net, but that's about it. In Linux, it sounds all distorted.
Oh yeah, the sound card is an ESS1869.
klamath
11-25-2000, 08:17 PM
Can you play other audio formats?
It may be a problem with the drivers for your soundcard.
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david
11-25-2000, 11:14 PM
Well, i haven't tried playing any other audio formats, and i've recompiled the kernel, and the sound drivers there. I was using mpg123 today, and it was sounding fine so long as i didn't do anything on the comp. if i used xmms, it sounded like ****