Re: Sound problems with 2.1.x

Daniel Bergstrom (noa-kernel@futurniture.se)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:16:42 +0100


On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 10:34:40AM -0500, William Peck x-6796 wrote:
>
> Playing long continuous streams of audio on 2.1.x kernels starts popping
> and some static and then eventually cutting out altogether..
>
> Stopping the currently playing program and restarting it will work for a
> while and then the whole thing will start over again...
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? You won't notice it if your only
> playing small files.. I notice it because I am playing Mpeg3's for hours
> at a time... This does not happen under 2.0.32 which is also on the
> machine..
>

Yes, I experience this also and i think it is on the todolist of the
sound-driver-hackers (is it?).

A temporary fix is to play your mp3s with with a wrapper so that the
player restarts between every song.

Good luck!
/daniel

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