This is mpg123 upstream here. I do not have a 16.04 system at hand currently, cannot confirm (and I suppose it should be a hardware machine, sound in a VM being possibly a different beast …). So, may I ask:
1. This is only with pulseaudio, right? Things are smooth when disabling it and playing directly via ALSA? 2. Does this persist with current mpg123 built from http://mpg123.org/current (it's 1.23.5)? Minimum receipe: apt-get install build-essentials apt-get libpulse-dev wget https://mpg123.org/current tar -xf mpg123-1.23.5.tar.bz2 cd mpg123-1.23.5 ./configure --disable-shared --with-audio=pulse make src/mpg123 $some_file (Naturally that's my guess, as I did not test on a ubuntu 16.04 system.) This should produce a self-contained mpg123 binary that does run without installing any modules. There was quite some work in the output code going from version 1.22 to 1.23. If the switch fixes things, we at least may have a hint at what fix might apply to the older version in Ubuntu. I am wondering about partial PCM frames being received by pulse, in particular. But that would cause output more like static noise, not what you describe … About the nature of the broken output … it is not just static noise; there is still the initial audio intelligible, just played fast with lots of skippyness? I may test this version of mpg123 on a ubuntu 14.04 box ... can someone tell me if something substantial in pulseaudio changed from that one (it was supposed to be stable now;-)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585926 Title: mp3 files decode as crackly noise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mpg123/+bug/1585926/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
