esound sound quality regression

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Sat Aug 21 16:31:27 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 22:30 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sound quality when playing music using ESD output has been fine until
> recently.. I'd guess it was the upgrade from 0.2.34-3 to 0.2.35-1 that
> changes things. I have a Centrino laptop that uses the snd_intel8x0
> Alsa driver for sound, and before esound has always run at 48 kHz and
> things work fine.
> 
> Now esound defaults to 44.1 kHz and the sound output.. vibrates a lot.
> Unfortunately there is no way to select the preferred sample rate
> using the GNOME sound capplet.. I had to kill esd from the command
> line, and then restart it (without the -terminate flag, otherwise when
> it stops and GNOME launches a new esd, it is started with the wrong
> sample rate again).
> 
> Should this go to gnome-devel or gnome-desktop-devel instead? Please advise.

Neither, this should be filed as a esound bug in gnome bugzilla.

I could also add a patch to the fedora rpms to set it to 48kHz if there
is no good reason not to.

> Thanks,
> 
> Michel Salim 林智勇
> http://salimma.livejournal.com
> 
> 
-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>





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