Re: Any good and high quality music player?
Sun.Botu wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? Hardware problem. AC97 sound boards are notoriously crappy under any OS. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 12 Apr, Greg Folkert wrote: Exactly *WHAT* does it sound like? *BAD* could mean MANY MANY things. Here is the lspci output I have for my Audio Controller. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep -i media 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) How is your sound quality? I have an MSI motherboard with a VIA 8235 at home and have never been able to get decent sound with it. It usually sounds ok on instrumental music, but vocals sound like they are in a tin can. I played around with the alsa configuration a bit over the weekend, and couldn't improve it to any appreciable degree. -Chris | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:24:52 -0400 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I attach my desktop to my stereo amplifier which has real speakers and then fiddle with alsaconf setting. Thus to get 'better' sound, you need better equipment, which excludes using tiny laptop speakers :-) Yep, I do the same thing. I had cheap satellite speakers that I used to use, but they had too many shorts, so I decided that I could just get a halfway decent (and long enough) cable that had two male RCA-type connectors to two other male RCA-type connectors, and connect the soundcard to the aux input (my 1994-ish vintage receiver doesn't have digital inputs, sadly). Still I get pretty decent sound. Way back when, people used to invest in hardware equalizers to help the sound and attach them to their receivers. Nowadays the equalizers are all free and open-source :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Javier Vasquez wrote: [sic] I never heard of a laptop speakers with good quality sound. [sic] There are laptops with good sound. Compaq Presario 700 for example has JBL loudspeakers which are just amazing for their size. Of course they cannot compete with their amplifier-powered big brothers, but they make the laptop a quality portable sound system. amarok - user-friendly feature-packed audio player regards, Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software ordrivercan solve? If you are using KDE, go to Control Center - Sound Multimedia - Sound System Under Skip Prevention thick the "Run with the highest possible priority" box and also increase the Sound buffer. If you use Gnome or something else there should be same setting options somewhere. This usually fixes sound problems for me. regards, Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bob wrote: [...] then set the master volume to 30% and increase the PCM or whatever controls the MP3 playback volume to 100% then tinker with the master to get the best quality. Funny, here[0] it's the other way round. When increasing the PCM volume over 60% (depending of the volume of the source) output sounds pretty distorted. Regards, Tobias [0] $ lspci | grep -i audio :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) $ cat /etc/debian_version 3.1 $ uname -a Linux hal 2.6.15.6 #1 PREEMPT Wed Mar 15 12:48:00 CET 2006 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? xmms gives good sound, and has an equalizer and playlist (displayed when the eq and pl buttons are pressed). Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:45:17AM +0800, Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? I attach my desktop to my stereo amplifier which has real speakers and then fiddle with alsaconf setting. Thus to get 'better' sound, you need better equipment, which excludes using tiny laptop speakers :-) -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:45:17AM +0800, Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? I attach my desktop to my stereo amplifier which has real speakers and then fiddle with alsaconf setting. Thus to get 'better' sound, you need better equipment, which excludes using tiny laptop speakers :-) I connect my laptop to the stereo via a professional usb-sound card to improve on the output of the laptop's built-in sound card 8-) Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any good and high quality music player?
On 4/12/07, Sun. Botu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? Are you using the laptop speakers? If not then forget about what I'm writing, :)... I never heard of a laptop speakers with good quality sound. Any ways, if you have the right card selected through alsaconf, and if you have alsamixer available, find out with it if you're using 3D or any other effects active (non plane stereo), and disable them (mute them). I noticed on a Dell 600M that when leaving plane stereo, without weird effects, then the laptop speakers sound gets better. Of course not better than using external speakers, :). As for a good players: moc mcdp I used to play with xmms, but these 2 ncurses guys are really nice, at least for me. Have fun, -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any good and high quality music player?
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 07:45 +0800, Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? Exactly *WHAT* does it sound like? *BAD* could mean MANY MANY things. Here is the lspci output I have for my Audio Controller. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep -i media 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) Please give us the output of the two following: lspci | grep -i media lsmod | grep snd That should give us a clearer understanding of your machine. Plus also give us an understanding of what the bad sound is. Also, give us the make and model of your laptop. Things have been known to be tricky with out that. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Any good and high quality music player?
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? Volume up too loud? I know on my T30, when I have the volume up too loud it sounds bad. I turn it down, usually through xmms, or alsamixer . Sounds good then and my ears thank me. hth Jef -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? One thing I've found to improve sound quality is open alsamixer (assuming you're using alsa) and with a good quality MP3 playing (contradiction in terms warning) mute everything that's not need to play the music, particularly concentrating on muting all the analogue sources and any 'efects' this often clears up a lot of noise, (hiss hum) then set the master volume to 30% and increase the PCM or whatever controls the MP3 playback volume to 100% then tinker with the master to get the best quality. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sun.Botu escribió: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? It's probably the driver of your sound card ;-) But if you want a good music player then test AmaroK or XMMS2 ;-) Jose Luis, - -- ghostbar on Linux/Debian 'sid' i686 - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://talug.org.ve http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve Fingerprint = 3E7D 4267 AFD5 2407 2A37 20AC 38A0 AD5B CACA B118 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGHvQLOKCtW8rKsRgRAp4VAKCT4X9QB2GkWWpd+5Ood3vrf/PEDACgoACS RBcU6qVNq8qeBgVbsGR/B1o= =voKB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
