Mpg321 Broken in Slackware

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Steve,

Switch to using "madplay" instead. It works great on SW 9.1 for
me, and contains console commands to pause, quit, restart, etc.

Chuck


On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I have ALSA 1.0.3 installed on my Slackware 9.1 box and all sounds
> great.  At least Zinf, Ogg123, Aplay, etc work fine.  But when  I
> attempt to play an mp3 file with mpg321 program, I get a bunch of
> distortion as if the volume was turned up too high or something.  The
> volume isn't actually any louder but it just sounds very heavily over
> driven and obviously unacceptable.  I think others on the list have
> also encountered this.  I used the mpg321 binary supplied with Slack.
> I suppose I could replace it with something compiled from the original
> source perhaps? Anyone else have this problem and figure out a fix?
>
> Thanks for any possible help.
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> ------------ Output from gpg ------------
> gpg: Signature made Mon Apr 12 11:33:28 2004 EDT using DSA key ID 94B42DF1
> gpg: Good signature from "Steve Holmes (HolmesGrown Solutions) <steve at holmesgrown.com>"
> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
> gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
> Primary key fingerprint: 46DB DA38 6DE3 53F1 0CC8  D315 5928 EFE7 94B4 2DF1
>
>

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