Hello Greg, Saturday, February 12, 2005, 9:01:55 PM, Greg wrote:
GM> On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:31 pm, rikona wrote: >> I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. >> Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted >> sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another >> 'engine' in Amarok it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, >> but can't get good sound in Amarok. Any way to get rid of the >> distortion in Amarok? >> GM> Okay, this is much clearer. the arts engine in amarok is quite GM> buggy and unsupported I can believe that. :-) Is that the default, or does it just look around to find what's available? It would be nice to have another engine, that works, come along with Amarok during install. GM> Try the gstreamer packages from eslrahc or the xine from plf. GM> Make sure you also have all the xine or gstreamer plugins GM> installed for all the media types you are trying to play. I'll try those. Thanks for the heads-up. Actually, the pressure is off a bit since I now have xmms installed and working well. It is nice. >> Addendum - the sound level from Amarok is quite a bit lower than >> the other apps, even with kmix at the max. GM> Make sure the equalizer is not on, it will reduce sound volume by GM> about 10db. or if it is, just boost the levels. Thanks for the tip, and the help. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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