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Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:22:38PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to
> /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality.  You can hear the sound, but
> there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it.

I'd guess it's either that the .au is 8-bit and /dev/audio is
expecting 16-bit data or the .au contains signed data and /dev/audio
is expecting unsigned (or vice-versa).

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