Internet radio Sound terrible in Hardy Heron

[David Maxwell]

I have a Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H motherboard with onboard sound (Realtek ALC889A).
This did not work at all under Ubuntu 7.10, but after installing Bete of 8.04 in a test partition it came to life following a few CODEC downloads. YouTube works fine, BBC iPlayer works fine for TV broadcasts, but then I went to use BBC iPlayer to listen to some earlier broadcasts - sound is uninteligible. Distorted, completely unusable. Tried live BBC iPlayer and similar distortion - unusable. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm)

Live music from other stations seems OK - e.g. galaxy FM - http://listen.galaxyyorkshire.co.uk/

All this is using FireFox and all updates available to Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

[doobydave (dooby-dave)]

Occurs for me too. On Acer Aspire 5685.

I wouldn't say they sound was distorted, merely unintelligible and misinterpreted.

[Kamlesh Samji (kam-samji)]

Exactly the same for me. it worked fine in 7.10.

I have a Compaq Presario V6000. I think I have a Realteck sound card, but I don't know how to check. sorry.

Kam

[Nick Atty (5-launchpad-canalplan-org-uk)]

On Gutsy, you couldn't use the embedded player, but the "stand alone" link on the BBC radio pages worked fine (it launched media player).

With Hardy the embedded player "works" (it plays, but is gibberish) and - unfortunately - the stand alone version doesn't work either - it still launches media player, but that now delivers the same gibberish.

Some sort of codec problem?

[Blake Munro (blake-munro)]

It appears that ALSA does not yet support this card. A report has been lodged over at their bug-track site.

I have the exact same problem...

Here's the link: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3765

I *really* hope this is fixed ASAP.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!