What type of Ensoniq card? Does it support 16-bit audio, or is it an older
8-bit only one?
Isaac
On 19-Feb-2000 Chris Carlin wrote:
> Does FreeAmp require EsoundD or ALSA?
> I don't see it saying that anywhere, but I get heavily garbled sound
> when I try to play an MP3, any MP3 on my system. I've tried installing
> the released binary and I tried recompiling it myself to the same
> results.
>
> I was VERY impressed with the interface and the My Music thing, but what
> good is it if I can't play music? :)
>
> I'm running Linux 2.2.12 with an Ensoniq sound card. Tell me if you need
> any other information.
> Could the problem be the card? When writing to the Ensoniq cards, things
> are different. An excerpt from the speakfreely webpage conserning a
> patch:
>
> ------------
> This patch makes it possible to use Speak Freely on Linux with OSS/Free
> soundcard drivers that do not support ulaw format (ex: Ensoniq). The
> format used instead is the standard 16 bit signed linear sample format.
>
> Since Speak Freely uses ulaw internally, an extra conversion is done to
> convert from ulaw to linear ( ulaw2linear() ) when playing sound and
> from linear to ulaw ( linear2ulaw() ) when recording.
> ------------
>
> So, is this why I have the garbled audio, and is there anything I can do
> about it inside FreeAmp?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Carlin
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