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

[Joe Bouchard <joe@bouchard.com>]

> 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 had this

I have been having the same problem and have lived with it for a few
monthes.  The main thing that didn't work for me was "saytime", and that
kind of bothered me because on my previous computer I put saytime on an hourly
cron job so I don't loose track of time :-)

Reading this thread finally pushed me to find a workaround for saytime,
and I will be glad to share it with any other emu10k users who might
want it.  Basically I edited the source code to dump it through sox with
"play -t ul -r 8000 file.au". Not pretty but it works.  Email me directly
if you want it.

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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard

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