thanx 4 reply am usually wrong but well.. mpg123 made@xxxxxxx shows the info of the file and it says it is stereo it is also the same with that of the same file played by the windows version of mpg123 this win version plays it ok oh but mpg123 also shows that there is a junk at the biginning of the file made@xxxxxxx is also ok at windows but half the speed at slackware btw workbone plays the cd ok mmm > > all the .mp3 files created @ MacOS9 > > becomes half the speed when played by > > mpg123 @ slackware > > > > things are the same with > > .wav files played by doing > > play made@xxxxxxx > > > > my > > GatewaySOLO(PentiumMMX150Mhz+48MB-RAM) has > > ESS's ES1888 on it > > and recently started making sounds > > via > > modprobe sb > > > > files recorded with > > rec newthingviamic.au > > plays ok > > even though the quality of it is no good > > > > am a prompt mode only csounder > > and wanna keep the machine that way > > but > > if i switch to mandrake > > will this aspect be easily solved? > > This is a guess and may be wholly wrong. It sounds to me as if your Mac is > writing a stereo mp3, but flagging it as mono (possibly failing to insert > a flag), and then your Linux box is playing it back as a mono file so each > frame becomes 2 hence it goes half speed.
