Hello, Excellent thank you very much for the info. Will do.
Cheers. From, Jack On April 13, 2015 1:54:30 AM PDT, Myriam Schweingruber <myr...@kde.org> wrote: >Hi Jack, > >On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Jack F <j...@thesolderingbench.com> >wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was hoping someone would be able to help me (or point me in the >right >> direction of someone who I can ask) to find the cause of a distortion >I seem to >> be hearing in some FLAC songs when they are played with Amarok. I >have noticed >> it on two songs and have just tested the recordings in other players >(VLC and >> Ocenaudio) and found that there is no distortion. However, there is >distortion >> when playing through the preview player in the Information panel in >Dolphin >> (... a KDE-wide problem...?). > >No, simply a Phonon backend problem, as Both Amarok and Dolphin use >Phonon to play sound >> >> One song has distortion of the female singers vocals, and the other >is on the >> bass. I have spliced part of one song that is have playback issues >(on the >> bass) to see if anyone else has the problem (first at around 6s) >> (http://www.thesolderingbench.com/test.flac - 1.8MiB, 18s). I am >running Amarok >> on Linux Mint 17 x86_64 using Phonon and the GStreamer backend. Fade >is on and >> I have tried it both with and without replay gain. The distortion >seems to >> happen at peaks in volumes. > >As said above: Amarok doesn't play sound itself, but lets Phonon do >it. You could try using the vlc backend instead of the gstreamer one >to see if that helps. Else you should report this to the >kde-multime...@kde.org mailing list, or better: file a bug for the >specific backend on http://bugs.kde.org > >In any case: please make sure you have the latest Phonon and Phonon >backend versions available, as there have been a lot of updates >lately. > >FWIW: I see the same distortions with the Phonon gstreamer backend v >4.7.80 > >Regards, Myriam >-- >Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community >Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: >http://www.fsfe.org >Please don't send me proprietary file formats, >use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)
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