Re: Mickey Mouse Music

Beau V.C. Bellamy wrote:

>I have seen this when playing sound that has been sampled lower then that
>output device used to play them. Some sound hardware is locked at a certain
>frequency (ex: 44.1khz or 48khz). To make matters worse, some programs
>don't properly detect this to up-sample and compensate. Hence, you have
>music playing at a faster rate than it was recorded in.
>
>I speculate that WMP, or whatever you are using since your upgrade is now
>ripping and encoding at a lower frequency while your player in linux is set
>to the soundcards freq and doesn't up-sample. However, it's hard to say
>since you didn't specify how the files were encoded,
>
they are encoded in .wma9

> what was used to encode
>them,
>
Windows Media Player 9

> what was used to play them,
>
XMMS

> your sound hardware,
>
Creative Soundblaster 512

> your kernel version,
>
Kernel 2.6. Whatever comes standard with SuSE 9.1.

>
>ALSA version (if not OSS),
>
OSS

> etc, etc. These are all factors that come into
>play when troubleshooting problems like these. I hope I helped you narrow
>the problem down.
>
>Happy Holidays
>- Beau
>
>
>On Sunday 19 December 2004 08:20, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
>
>
>>I have a strange problem. I am currently dual-booting XP & SUSE 9.1 Pro.
>>I have about 100 CD's I recorded in Windows. When I listen to music in
>>linux, most of the files play just fine, however, some of them sound
>>like they are being played at 45rpm (ala Mickey Mouse).
>>Does anyone know why some music plays fine and others don't?
>>If I have to, I'll re-record the Mickey Mousey sounding CD's in SuSE,
>>but would rather not if I don't have to.
>>Any suggestions, besides 86ing Windows? I am a Pinball fanatic and
>>Visual Pinball only works in Windows. :-((
>>
>>P.S. This didn't happen until I installed Service Pack 2 in XP. I really
>>don't want to remove SP2.
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Received on Sun Dec 19 22:15:01 2004