poor quality mp3pro playback with xmms
 

the files were encoded with Nero and play fine in Windows. i am playing them off of my windows partition, the mp3s play fine but the mp3pros crack at the "highs" (dunno if that's the right word not a sound engineer)

don't even know where to start looking for this! always found the xmms web a bit vague

Did you create those mp3 files with mp3pro (program or codec)?
If so, I think your problem wont be solved.
Mp3pro is uses a proprietary codec that reduces the bitrate at 64k while trying to retain the quality. Xmms just sees as simple mp3 files at 64k thus the bad quality...

It could be of course a of a misconfigured soundcard which is a whole new game...

Good Luck...

does that explain why they play perfectly in windows media player 9? i dunno.

I am not quite sure...

Try checking the information using using Media Player/Winamp on Windows and xmms on linux (press the I on the clock panel) and compare them... Cant think of anything else now...

I had a similar problem recently. All my mp3s clipped or cracked in all the players I used. So what I do is, for XMMS, I use the Equalizer, and pull down the bar, so that the sound that XMMS is producing is not as loud. I do something similar with mplayer also using the filters to lower the volume.

I'm fairly new to all this though, and I have other problems with media i'm still working out, but this works for me.