Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness

Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:39:28 -0600 (EST)


I was unable to make mpg123 skip under 2.2.3 this morning, either
unloaded or loaded. The loaded case was a load average of 3 (10% idle)
and included a kernel compile, writing a cd, playing mp3s with mpg123,
converting mp3s and some other nonsense while reading mail.

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Craig Schlenter 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.
> >
> >The only thing that works properly for me is either x11amp or amp-0.7.6.
> >
> >amp-0.7.6 was compiled to do realtime stuff and has to run as root.
>
> I tried several mp3 players - all seem to skip to some extent.
> None of them ever skip except very occasionally on a busy system
> in 2.0.x. So therefore it is definitely something wrong, and not
> an issue with a maxed out system or some such.

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