Distortion in Flac playback

[Jack]

Hello,

Excellent thank you very much for the info. Will do.

Cheers.

From,
Jack


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