Awful music quality

sduffy89 · 08-25-2004, 03:49 PM

I"m tring to play high quality .mp3 files on my system and the sound is TERRIBLE. I got the music files from my windows partition and know how it SHOULD sound and it isn't near that. It seems to skip at a pattern or something :-P Idunno. If anybody has some advice for me to get the sound workign better on my linux, please tell me cuz i'm dieing for my tunes

Thanks!

darin3200 · 08-25-2004, 03:51 PM

What are you using to play the music?

sduffy89 · 08-25-2004, 03:51 PM

Also, what is the BEST media player for linux. Thanks again!

sduffy89 · 08-25-2004, 04:31 PM

I've tried like 4 programs and the quality is still crap. Its not the program i use to play the music.

myriad-zero · 08-26-2004, 02:26 AM

What is your sound card make? Are you using OSS driver or ALSA driver? ALSA drivers are better than OSS drivers.

orgee · 09-17-2004, 06:38 AM

i have the same problem. im using ALSA and ive tried different settings for it on xmms as well as other music players. still the same, have you guys solved this?

marcheikens · 09-17-2004, 12:23 PM

Have you tried playing with the sound levels? Install aumix and see if you can play with the gain etc. I've had trouble with distortion on some mp3's and changing the pcm and or gain levels seemed to help.

Marc

orgee · 09-17-2004, 01:35 PM

yeah i got it fixed. i ran alsamixer and changed the levels of the sound and it worked. now my only problem left is the sound lag/glitch in UT2004.. it works and runs fine but, whenever you fire, or a new sound is played, theres a 1 second lag. i first noticed it while loading the game when it shows the nvidia logo (where the guy breaks the logo).

hkxx9 · 09-18-2004, 07:49 AM

If you're still having this problem, I had it too. I just ran 'alsamixer'
and lowered the PCM setting while increasing the headphone setting.
Got the volume I was missing and all the distortion went away.

Using xmms under Slack 10 listening to mp3's. Much happier now

cheers