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arnuld Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 124
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: Audacious sound quality is totally 3rd class |
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so finally XMMS was removed and hence i found i had to use Audacious, so i give it a try to listen to my "ogg" files. HECK, i get totally 3rd class sound from it. even "ogg123" plays with better sound quality. XINE's sound quality is good too. any way to get better sound quality from Audacious ? _________________ arnuld
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Are you sure that you have the right sound pluggins.... do you use ALSA ?
The a config menu to set the output pluggins...maybe you are stuck with the oss pluggins. |
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ssokolow n00b
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 22
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: Re: Audacious sound quality is totally 3rd class |
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arnuld wrote: | so finally XMMS was removed and hence i found i had to use Audacious, so i give it a try to listen to my "ogg" files. HECK, i get totally 3rd class sound from it. even "ogg123" plays with better sound quality. XINE's sound quality is good too. any way to get better sound quality from Audacious ? |
Sorry. Can't help you. I've tried to induce that kind of problem (out of curiosity) and failed. Audacious has always been the best audio playback tool I've had. |
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der_dude n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 10
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: Re: Audacious sound quality is totally 3rd class |
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arnuld wrote: | HECK, i get totally 3rd class sound from it. |
Same problem over here - using alsa. |
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ssokolow n00b
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 22
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: Audacious sound quality is totally 3rd class |
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der_dude wrote: | arnuld wrote: | HECK, i get totally 3rd class sound from it. |
Same problem over here - using alsa. |
And I'm using ALSA with no problems. PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) |
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der_dude n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 10
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Audacious sound quality is totally 3rd class |
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ssokolow wrote: | der_dude wrote: | arnuld wrote: | HECK, i get totally 3rd class sound from it. |
Same problem over here - using alsa. |
And I'm using ALSA with no problems. PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) |
Perhaps you could post the USE-Flags your audacious is built with ... ? |
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ssokolow n00b
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 22
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: Re: Audacious sound quality is totally 3rd class |
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der_dude wrote: | ssokolow wrote: | der_dude wrote: | arnuld wrote: | HECK, i get totally 3rd class sound from it. |
Same problem over here - using alsa. |
And I'm using ALSA with no problems. PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) |
Perhaps you could post the USE-Flags your audacious is built with ... ? |
At the moment, I'm pulling from the subversion repo using modified versions of the most recent ebuilds, but ever since I first discovered Audacious back around version 0.1.2, it's worked perfectly audio-quality wise. Have you tried turning down your system's mixer levels (alsamixer or amixer should do it) and double-checking that you don't have some messed up equalizer preset active in Audacious?
Anyway, here are the flags I'm using.
media-plugins/audacious-plugins: aac adplug alsa esd flac jack mad modplug musepack nls opengl oss sid sndfile timidity tta vorbis wavpack wma
media-plugins/audacious-plugins-ugly: cube iris libnotify mplayer nls
media-sound/audacious: nls
Please note that I've tried releases with and without the chardet USE flag, and with current SVN, chardet is no longer optional. That's why it's not in the list of USE flags I'm using. |
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der_dude n00b
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thx for your help.
I rebuilt the packages and changed the plugin configs. The quality is much better now, but xmms still makes the best out of the presets. |
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ssokolow n00b
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 22
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:28 am Post subject: |
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der_dude wrote: | Thx for your help.
I rebuilt the packages and changed the plugin configs. The quality is much better now, but xmms still makes the best out of the presets. |
Possibly. I've never bothered with the equalizer. On the other hand, XMMS's equalizer is a mess inside and only works with certain plugins. |
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