Sound distortion

[Olivier Fourdan]

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tomw at videotron.ca wrote:
> My wife has noticed a big difference in the sound quality (when playing mp3's)
> between the xfce and kde environments.
> 
> This distortion is most noticable  when she plays  pop or rock music with lots of bass.
> The best description is perhaps a old hand held transistor radio with the volume on
> max.  (Or perhaps a speaker with it's fabric cone damaged.)
> 
> This distortion is present when using xfmedia or kaffeine in xfce but is
> not "as bad" in the kde environment.

kaffeine is a kde app, so I bet it uses arts. I'd suggest checking
voulume levels, or mixer settings. You can add controls to xfce4-mixer
if not all controls are available.

> Any ideas as to what the problem might be...?
> Perhaps it be possible to use the kde sound server (arts?) with xfce?
> BTW this basically a Ubuntu (MEPIS) system so no ALSA.

I believe ALSA will give you better results, but I fail to understand
why you say that Ubuntu == no ALSA.

I'm using ALSA on Ubuntu (by default).

Cheers,
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   - Olivier
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