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Re: [PLUG] Linux MP3 players suck!
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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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