I am running fedora 14,
have 456.2 MB RAM
59.9 GB disk space
Kernel 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.00Ghz
SIS motherboard
Unknown brand sound card
Have tried tried the following music apps
-Amarok
-Audacity
-Banshee
-Rhythymbox
-Kaffiene
-Movie Player

Have played
-mp3
-m4a
-wav

Used several diff speakers and heaphones

What is the problem?
Any Insights Would be helpful
Anyone?

Mate, do you have codecs installed? And you should define your sound card, especially since it is home made computer. Try;

[Bryan@Bryan ~]$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 01)

so i guess i have a Cirrus Logic Crystal card. It will make sounds, but music just doesn't function correctly
I also have problems with streaming music, such as from Pandora Radio. Internet connection isn't a problem, as I average a dwnload speed of 4.2 MB (yes, MB) / sec.

And I'm still a little new, and am unsure what exactly codecs is.

Thanks for the reply!
hope this can help you help me

What I meant with codecs is forbiden items, how Fedora folks call it, read about that here; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems

I did a quick search about that card, and it used to be problematic, but newer kernels seems to do the job right.

Go here; http://rpmfusion.org/ and enable that repo, but before that read this; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_party_repositories

If you're using GNOME DE, install GStreamer plugins, good, bad and ugly.

And I'm using VLC for my music, videos etc. It plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols, but install it from the official repositories if it's available through your package manager. For encrypted DVDs you'll need libdvdcss2 which, last time I checked is still in http://rpm.livna.org/ repo.

OK, well i'm using gnome2.32.0, which may/may not be DE, idk. i already have rpmfusion repo's enabled, but am unable to find good/bab/ugly plugins??

GNOME is a desktop environment, just like Xfce or KDE or LXDE etc.

Open your package manager (Add/Remove Software) and in the search box type gstreamer. It should show them. Have you tried to install VLC? VLC will play most of the things without GStreamer plugins.

i got the plugins, didn't work. Got vlc, still didn't work
I don't know whats wrong. Could it be a hardware problem, such as the sound card being bad?

So, what exactly does it do ? Does it stutter while playing music, or does it loop or what exactly ? Does the mplayer '-cache' option help with it ?

Well if you have tried all that and it still doesn't work I'm afraid it's a sound card issue. It is recognized by the system, but obviously something is wrong with it.

Can you play videos and music in a web browser? That's if you have flash installed.

Yes, it is slightly better with the rapid acceleration, but the "stuttering/skipping" noise is still there. I watched the time on the music players, and it went something like

1'''''2'''''3'''''4'''''5''''6''''7''''8'''9'''10'''11''12''13''14'15'16'17'181920----, until it just ended the song in about 5 sec. after the first 20 completed X$

with pandora radio, youtube, etc. it was more like:
1,2'''''''''3,4'''''''''5,6'''''''''7,8

srry if thts confusing. numbers = seconds, "'"s = time.

Mate, at this moment I'll suggest reading this; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Sound

And then what is linked there, especially;
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...undcardTesting

Test some things written there and post back.