Package: mpd Version: 0.15.1-1 Severity: normal
Hello, I just started using mpd and works great. I just think it would be better, if the installed /etc/mpd.conf should have the following commented out by default, in the Audio Output section: device "hw:0,0" # optional format "44100:16:2" # optional mixer_device "default" # optional mixer_control "PCM" # optional mixer_index "0" # optional I know it says that it's optional. But with those uncommented sound quality suffers. I played a podcast that I had listened to before and the voices sounded a bit robotic/metallic. So I did some research and asked some questions in #mpd on freenode. And I was told that it's better for alsa to take care of those settings. I came to the same conclusions after commenting out those lines. Tried what was suggested and sound quality was much better. Listened to the same podcast and it sounded great now. I understand that with those commented out mpd will use ~6 more cpu cycles, at least that is what I saw here on two machines. But I think it's well worth the trade off, and better for new users to have those commented out by default. Thank You, Michel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mpd depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libao2 0.8.8-5 Cross Platform Audio Output Librar ii libasound2 1.0.20-3 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavcodec52 5:0.5+svn20090823-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi ii libavformat52 5:0.5+svn20090823-0.0 ffmpeg file format library ii libavutil49 4:0.5+svn20090706-2 ffmpeg utility library ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcue1 1.3.0-1 CUE Sheet Parser Library ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.19.5-1.1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libfaad0 2.6.1-3.1 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - ii libflac8 1.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libid3tag0 0.15.1b-10 ID3 tag reading library from the M ii libjack0 0.116.2+svn3592-2 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari ii libmad0 0.15.1b-4 MPEG audio decoder library ii libmms0 0.4-2 MMS stream protocol library - shar ii libmpcdec3 1:1.2.2-2.1 Musepack (MPC) format library ii libogg0 1.1.4~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library ii libpulse0 0.9.15-4.1 PulseAudio client libraries ii libresid-builder0c 2.1.1-7 SID chip emulation class based on ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-2 audio rate conversion library ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming ii libsidplay2 2.1.1-7 SID (MOS 6581) emulation library ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.17-2 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-6 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-6 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-6 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libwavpack1 4.50.1-1 an audio codec (lossy and lossless mpd recommends no packages. Versions of packages mpd suggests: pn avahi-daemon <none> (no description available) pn icecast2 <none> (no description available) ii mpc [mpd-client] 0.16-1 A command-line tool to interface M ii ncmpcpp [mpd-client] 0.3.5-1 ncurses-based client for the Music pn pulseaudio <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org