'Twas brillig, and Harsha, Priya at 15/09/09 10:10 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > When I play a 44.1Khz stereo file through aplay, the > file is smooth and clear. When the same 44.1 Khz file > is played through paplay or any player using Pulseaudio > the playback is noisy. I see that the stereo file is > converted into mono and then played. Could there be an > issue because of the conversion? Perhaps paplay is misbehaving but do you you have some kind of virtual sink created and have you previously moved a paplay stream to this sink? Pulseaudio will remember what sink a given application has last used and restore it to using that sink. If this is the case, simply play something with paplay and then move the stream to the right sink by running pavucontrol. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]