bad sound

[eZoulou]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Music files played with rhythmbox sound real bad. This does not happen when the same file is played with vlc, gnome player or mplayer!
This situation is reproducible all the time and happens with any sound files mp3, ogg, m4a etc.
I am on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10, my rhythmbox version is 0.11.6.

Note that I never had this problem with the previous versions of ubuntu on this machine (7.04 -> 8.04)...

Thanks for your interest/.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, are you using the crossfading backend? does it happens without it? what's gnome-player? totem? do you get the same if you play the file with: gst-launch playbin uri=file:///directory/file ? thanks.

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

whaou that is a fast answer! Allright :

> are you using the crossfading backend?
I tried with crossfading and without...

> does it happens without it?
yes. same with and without.

> what's gnome-player?
oups, I meant gnome-mplayer

> totem?
I removed totem

> do you get the same if you play the file with: gst-launch playbin uri=file:///directory/file ?
with your command, the sound is perfect!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you get the issue on any audio file or only on a specific one?

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

yes.
so far I tryed a local mp3 file, a local ogg file, and a remote last.fm
song.
for all of them, the sound crackles...

florent Claude | Création Web Libre | eZoulou.be
<http://ezoulou.be>

Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> do you get the issue on any audio file or only on a specific one?
>
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you use the crossfading option? do you have pulseaudio running?

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

For your question about Pulseaudio, I am way too lost with sound
configuration to be sure about my answer.
If you have a command I can run on the terminal to answer your question,
I would be glad to do it...

florent Claude | Création Web Libre | eZoulou.be
<http://ezoulou.be>

Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> do you use the crossfading option?
I tryed with and without crossfading and I still have the same crackeled
sound.

> do you have pulseaudio running?
>
I opened 'system monitor' and pulseaudio is shown in the running processes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you stop pulseaudio and see if that makes a difference?

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

I killed the pulseaudio process and restarted rhythmbox but I still have
a bad sound...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is the issue specific to rhythmbox?

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

Only in rhythmbox and nothing else I have. For instance flash player
(nonfree), banshee, vlc etc : all have fine sound

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what about totem or gst-launch playbin uri=file:///directory/to/example

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

I don't have totem anymore but I remember trying before and it had no
sound problems.
With the comand line, it works just fine!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you should open the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org where the people writting rhythmbox will read it

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

I will try to open a bug report there but it is not allways very easy (I
mean user-friendly)...
Thanks for your help seb anyway & have a nice evening/w-e.
florent/.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue? did you open a GNOME bug?

[eZoulou (florent-ezoulou)]

Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> do you still get the issue?
yes
> did you open a GNOME bug?
>
I tried to but my problem wasn't precise enough and there was too many
similar problems for me to be sure I would not create a duplicate bug
report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since bug too for the same reason then, you can reopen if you still get the issue and have details on it though