Re: aloop crackles

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2008/10/7 klondike <franxisco1988@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/10/7 Jonathan Selander <jonathan@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using aloop in a box without any soundcard to loop wave files to
>> an input device in skype. The audio works, but crackles and pops a
>> lot. Yesterday when i set it up i could play a 44.1/16/stereo wave
>> file through it without problems, but today that didn't work and i got
>> the "set_params:909: Channels count non available" error.
>>
>> Switching to plughw:0 from hw:0 fixed that, but instead i get crackles
>> and pops, so the audio is quite hard to listen to.
>>
>> I play files with:
>>
>> aplay -D plughw:0 file.wav
>>
>> Skype uses aloopin as input device which is defined like this
>> in .asoundrc:
>>
>> pcm.aloopin {
>>         type hw
>>         card 0
>>         device 1
>>         subdevice 0
>> }
>>
>> ctl.aloopin {
>>         type hw
>>         card 0
>>         device 1
>>         subdevice 0
>> }
>>
>> Skype also uses plughw:1 as output devices to prevent conflicts with
>> aplay
>>
>> Thanks
>
> The strange thing is that it doesn't segfaults. Just try the null
> module (I think it's snd_null) and redirect skype's output there.
>

Another thing, ensure that skype is reading the output before using
aplay, and just in case try this:
aplay -D plughw:0,0 file.wav

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