mad mp3 decoder

[Domel]

Thanks a lot for a good hint on "pass through"! Yes, that's better now.
Still, I hear slightly better sound on my xmms setup and good
headphones, but after a hint on the equalizer I find now that it is
exactly the equalizer that makes the difference. More specifically, I
find the EQ plugin for xmms to produce better results (with full
accuracy and extra filtering) than the one in Amarok. Without the
equalizer the sound is about comparable and does not seem to have
anything to do with the mad decoder as I originally thought.

Thanks a lot for clearing the mad decoder thing,
Dominik

Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> Monday 22 January 2007 20:50 skrev Domel:
>> Hi,
>> I find the mp3 quality as played with xmms-mad noticably better than the
>> one played by amarok-xine. But I by far prefer the amarok's interface.
>> (How) is it possible to use the mad decoder with amarok? I am on
>> debian/unstable and find absolutely no related packages (they say about
>> amarok-mad or kdemultimedia-mad in google but no such thingy for debian).
>> Thanks for any hints,
> 
>   You might want to try turning the option for speaker setup to "Pass through" 
> rather than some actual speaker setup. That option makes xine fiddle with the 
> sound, and if you are worried about the quality, that is not something you'll 
> normally want to happen. Hope that helps :) Also, as Ian said, turn off the 
> equalizer if you have that turned on.
>