GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 451570
Playback distorted
Last modified: 2007-10-13 23:06:14 UTC
Please describe the problem: In RB 0.11.1 (and trunk) the playback of mp3s is totally distorted, like if the volume were too high. This is Ubuntu Feisty. Related gstreamer packages: ii gstreamer-tools 0.10.12-0ubuntu2 ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-esd 0.10.5-1ubuntu2 ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.2-0ubuntu4 ii gstreamer0.10-gl 0.10.4-1ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-gnonlin 0.10.7-1 ii gstreamer0.10-pitfdll 0.9.1.1+cvs20060515-1ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.4-1ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 0.10.4-3 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.5-1ubuntu2 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.5-0ubuntu2 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.5-2 ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.12-0ubuntu2 ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev 0.10.12-0ubuntu1 ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.12-0ubuntu2 ii libgstreamer0.10-dev 0.10.12-0ubuntu2 Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Does that help if you set rhythmbox volume to less than 100% (I mean rhythmbox volume, ie the one which you can set from the right of rhythmbox toolbar)
nope, it doesn't help
I found similar distortion on Fedora (Rythmbox 0.11, GStreamer 0.10.12). Enabling the crossfading backend appears to fix it for me. Does this help you?
problem occurs on ubuntu 7.04 too, playing oggs (gstreamer 0.10.12)
can you test with flac files ?. I've started hearing "scratches" in ogg and mp3 files since I updated alsa stuff here but I'm not sure it is related. Using rhythmbox-0.11.1. Will try the crossfading backend ASAP.
I had the same problem with my Rhytmbox.. Try lowering the Rhythmbox volume from its own handle in the main window, it worked for me :)
same problem with mp3
I tried lowering rhythmbox's volume. I had to bring it down to ~50% to make the distortion disappear on my test mp3. That's really weird, I thought software volume couldn't do such things...
I have same problem, ubuntu feisty with rhythmbox 0.11.1 but lowering rhythmbox's volume a little below maximum fixed it.
This seems to be the same problem reported in bug 436192. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436192 ***
Confirming this. Rhythmbox 0.11.2. Listen media player has the same issue so maybe it's a gstreamer problem.
Rhythmbox 0.11.2, Gutsy beta, confirmed. Rhythmbox makes a very annoying noise with songs with important bass. The same song with Listen is clean, so the file has non problem. It happens with .ogg and also .mp3s. Hope a fix, for now i am forced to use another player.
This is actually a bug in ALSA. As far as I know, gutsy will ship with a fixed libasound2 package.