Re: stereo on mp3 playback

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 15:21:50 +0100, andy wrote:
>   
> > Hi
> >
> > When playing CDs on my Lenny system, I get great stereo. However, whenever 
> > playing mp3s - even those that I have ripped myself in stereo, I don't get 
> > stereo at all: music only comes out of the right speaker, no matter which 
> > application I am using for playback. I am using ALSA and as far as I can 
> > tell have the basic arrangement set up properly. I ran alsaconf and 
> > selected the correct card, and then alsamixer and adjusted the settings: 
> > the CD still plays in stereo, but the mp3 players not.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a steer in the right direction please?
> >     
>
> The fact that direct CD playback is in stereo does not necessarily mean
> that ALSA is correctly configured for stereo playback of sound files. 
>
> A better test is:
>
> speaker-test -t sine -c2
>
> This command should produce a (rather boring) sine wave output which
> switches between left and right channel every few seconds. Does that
> work?
>
>   
Florian

Thanks for the idea. Left front does not work - which is the speaker 
that is non-responsive when playing mp3s. I wonder if this is due to the 
new kernel upgrade recently: 2.6.22-2-686

A

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