<html><head></head><body>Hello,<br>
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Excellent thank you very much for the info. Will do.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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From,<br>
Jack<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 13, 2015 1:54:30 AM PDT, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi Jack,<br /><br />On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Jack F <jack@thesolderingbench.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello,<br /><br /> I was hoping someone would be able to help me (or point me in the right<br /> direction of someone who I can ask) to find the cause of a distortion I seem to<br /> be hearing in some FLAC songs when they are played with Amarok. I have noticed<br /> it on two songs and have just tested the recordings in other players (VLC and<br /> Ocenaudio) and found that there is no distortion. However, there is distortion<br /> when playing through the preview player in the Information panel in Dolphin<br /> (... a KDE-wide problem...?).<br /></blockquote><br />No, simply a Phonon backend problem, as Both Amarok and Dolphin use<br />Phonon to play sound<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border
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1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> One song has distortion of the female singers vocals, and the other is on the<br /> bass. I have spliced part of one song that is have playback issues (on the<br /> bass) to see if anyone else has the problem (first at around 6s)<br /> (<a href="http://www.thesolderingbench.com/test.flac">http://www.thesolderingbench.com/test.flac</a> - 1.8MiB, 18s). I am running Amarok<br /> on Linux Mint 17 x86_64 using Phonon and the GStreamer backend. Fade is on and<br /> I have tried it both with and without replay gain. The distortion seems to<br /> happen at peaks in volumes.<br /></blockquote><br />As said above: Amarok doesn't play sound itself, but lets Phonon do<br />it. You could try using the vlc backend instead of the gstreamer one<br />to see if that helps. Else you should report this to the<br />kde-multimedia@kde.org mailing list, or better: file a bug for the<br />specific backend on <a
href="http://bugs.kde.org">http://bugs.kde.org</a><br /><br />In any case: please make sure you have the latest Phonon and Phonon<br />backend versions available, as there have been a lot of updates<br />lately.<br /><br />FWIW: I see the same distortions with the Phonon gstreamer backend v 4.7.80<br /><br />Regards, Myriam</pre></blockquote></div></body></html>