On Tue, 15.09.09 14:40, Harsha, Priya (priya.harsha at intel.com) wrote: > 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? Hmm, could you please run "pacmd ls" once when you do this via aplay and once via paplay and provide me with both outputs? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4