Michael W. Ryan on Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:00:18 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Linux MP3 players suck!


On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Tim Peeler wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > Problem is this:  The MP3's sound like crap (kind of a high-pitched

I seem to recall something about this being a characteristic of
Soundblaster cards.  I could be wrong.

How fast is your system, and what kind of sound card do you have?

> Try setting the realtime priority under preferences for xmms.  For freeamp,
> make sure it was compiled with nasm.  Anything else, you can run it as root
> with a higher priority (nice -5 should be good).  It sounds like you don't have
> enough cpu process dedicated to the player (one kickass thing about *nix IMHO
> is prioritizing processes).

Just a minor point of information (if we're going to claim Linux is
better, we should get our facts right):  WinNT allows you to run processes
at different priorities, also.

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