I just tried, for the heck of it, mpg321 and I got an error about missing shared object library libid3tag.so; I thought I had that library all along so don't know what happened there. But I do recall mpg321 making some awful noises in the past and I do believe that was before going to Slackware 9.1. On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:00:04AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > That is really strange. I am just now moving on up to SW 9.1 and > am using madplay with no difficulties at all. I have not tried > mpg321, since madplay has a nice console control system while > playing material. But on my 9.1 system it works great. I have an > sblive card and am using alsa 0.9.8 drivers with OSS emulation. > > Chuck > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > Somebody mentioned that they were having horribly distorted MP3 playback > > under Slackware 9.1. I hadn't noticed this because I mostly have OGG > > Vorbis files, and the times I do play an MP3 file, I use trplayer. > > However, I started doing some testing of various MP3 players, and have > > come to the conclusion that there must be something wrong with the MAD > > library that ships with Slackware 9.1. Both MPG321 and Madplay use this > > library for MP3 playback, and both have seriously messed up audio output. > > In the case of MPG321, it is horribly distorted with a steady clicking > > sound. With Madplay, there is a loud hissing noise. I found that Zinf, > > Trplayer, and mpg123 which is in the extra directory all yield correct MP3 > > playback. There is also a very simple player called AMP which comes with > > Slackware 9.1. It works correctly as well, but has absolutely no options > > other than playing the file. I.E. no fast-forward, shuffle, etc. So, any > > of those will work. I don't know if downloading the latest version of the > > Mad library would help, but it might. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full) > Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
