Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 06:01:22 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Gerhard Mack wrote:

>Interesting, it seems to have worked ok for this mornings alarmclock of 5
>metallica mp3s started with crontab. (yes this is what it takes to wake me
>up in the morning) Everything sounded fine.

If you're needing 5 metallica MP3's to wake you up, perhaps it
skipped during the first 1-4 and you slept through it.

I just played the entire Ride the lightening album in MP3, and it
skips too. I tried mpg123 and a couple other programs. Still
skips.

TTYL

>> I just booted 2.2.3 and once again, I must say that I am simply
>> AMAZED by the performance differences of the hard disk and CDROM
>> under 2.2.x.
>>
>> So, that said, everyone involved with 2.2.x development give
>> yourselves a big pat on the back. I can't wait until RedHat puts
>> together 6.0 so I can clean up my messed up system. ;o)
>>
>> Anyways... back onto the topic of my subject line. I just
>> played an MP3 file, and it played halfway through ok, and then it
>> got to the "He's getting a tattoo, yeah he's getting ink done, he
>> asked for a 13 but,.................................." big long
>> skip for a second or two "they drew a thirty-one"............
>> skip again.............
>>
>> The system is totally idle. I just booted, logged in, ran mc,
>> discovered that it will call an mp3 player, tried running an mp3,
>> examined the error output, found out that sound modules didn't
>> load, spent 10 minutes troubleshooting why, determined that
>> conf.modules is different from 2.0 to 2.2, made the necessary
>> change by adding a "dma16=5", and then loaded the modules. Then
>> I tried playing the mp3 again. It worked. Up until the skip
>> skip part above.
>>
>> Oh, prior to running the mp3, I started up PINE too. That is all
>> that was running though other than my normal system services.
>> No network interfaces were up at the time including PPP.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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Mike A. Harris                   Linux advocate      GNU advocate
Computer Consultant                          Open Source advocate  

The DVORAK keyboard layout RULES! I memorized it in 45 minutes and I don't think I'm ever going back to QWERTY!

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