Saturday, June 23, 2012
Female-fronted bands
Ran into this while idly browsing last.fm. An incredible, exhaustive list.
http://www.last.fm/user/music_man_76/journal/2012/02/22/5cbnpc_free_downloads%3A_female_vocalistsfemale_fronted_bands
http://www.last.fm/user/music_man_76/journal/2012/02/22/5cbnpc_free_downloads%3A_female_vocalistsfemale_fronted_bands
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Linux audio - the nuclear option: OSS4
Well here we go again. Pulse keeps dropping out. Let's try install OSS4. I used the method described by kedaha.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=70166&start=15#p394523
I was surprised that /etc/asound.conf doesn't exist. Anyway, I deleted both alsa-base/alsa-utils, and all the pulseaudio things I could find. I didn't delete libpulse0, because otherwise too many applications get auto-deleted.
Summary, it is great. Man, why did I put up with this nonsense which is pulseaudio so long? Is ALSA, not pulse, really to blame? I don't care. Give me OSS4!
Additional refs:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=52919
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1217259
http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Applications_for_OSSv4
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=70166&start=15#p394523
I was surprised that /etc/asound.conf doesn't exist. Anyway, I deleted both alsa-base/alsa-utils, and all the pulseaudio things I could find. I didn't delete libpulse0, because otherwise too many applications get auto-deleted.
Summary, it is great. Man, why did I put up with this nonsense which is pulseaudio so long? Is ALSA, not pulse, really to blame? I don't care. Give me OSS4!
Additional refs:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=52919
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1217259
http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Applications_for_OSSv4
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Linux audio glitches *yet* *again*
I did an update of my debian install on Jun 02, 2012, and now clementine glitches when changing tracks. Ugh. Yet again, I blame pulse.
(1) Ubuntu recommends turning off PulseAudio timer scheduling. I did a "pulseaudio --kill", which seems to give SIGTERM. This still glitches. So I try a reboot as suggested. Still no relief. (Ref: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems)
(2) Check make sure the problem isn't with clementine. Amarok is good for reproducing pulse problems. (It gives me a strange error message - see this page). But anyway it has a smaller pop when changing tracks, and occasional sound dropout. mpg123 plays without any audible glitches or dropouts. banshee also plays without glitches between songs, but has a pop when advancing songs.
(3) Try changing the snd-hda-intel position_fix and reboot. position_fix=1 seems to have no effect, while position_fix=2 worsens the problem (even mpg123 sounds bad).
(1) Ubuntu recommends turning off PulseAudio timer scheduling. I did a "pulseaudio --kill", which seems to give SIGTERM. This still glitches. So I try a reboot as suggested. Still no relief. (Ref: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems)
(2) Check make sure the problem isn't with clementine. Amarok is good for reproducing pulse problems. (It gives me a strange error message - see this page). But anyway it has a smaller pop when changing tracks, and occasional sound dropout. mpg123 plays without any audible glitches or dropouts. banshee also plays without glitches between songs, but has a pop when advancing songs.
(3) Try changing the snd-hda-intel position_fix and reboot. position_fix=1 seems to have no effect, while position_fix=2 worsens the problem (even mpg123 sounds bad).
