Ubuntu :: 10.4 - Overall Bad Sound Quality (Low Frequency)
Jun 28, 2010
I'm a bit new in Ubuntu, but I am about to get a hang in it. I have previous use karmic koala and the version before that (cant remember the name for that) on my old computer and now I am using ubuntu 10.4 on my new computer. Ever since I installed Ubuntu for the first time, I noticed that the sound quality wasn't... the best. There isn't so much wrong with it, but like that this example. I played a FLAC file with some headphones (thru Ubuntu) and the sound quality sucked.. and then I played a mp3 file (with an ipod) and the sound quality was much much much better than the FLAC file.
I tired to play an HD movie over ....., where on Windows XP it sounds perfect, but with Ubuntu it kinda sux. The MP3 (Ipod / windows XP) is still better, than anything that is being played in Ubuntu. This is with almost every sound format I have tried. No matter if I play it with Rythmbox or vlc or some other player, the sound is wrong. I cant describe how it sounds.. but it is like it is going with a low frequency... or it is compress some how... Ever since I tried Ubuntu for the first time Ive noticed that something was wrong, but couldn't never really put my finger on it. I have dual-booted with windows XP and the sound in XP is really, really good compared to Ubuntu.
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Sep 25, 2010
Is their any software in Linux which tells about audio sound quality (frequency,bits/s etc...?
which is special designed for all Audio_quality-features. Moreover, I have tried Themonospot software but its only for Video formats. I want soft 4 audio formats only.
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Feb 14, 2010
I have put my record collection onto disc (Ubuntu+Audacity+Rythmbox) I would now like to play the MP3 files through my Hi-Fi. Is there a "media player" unit that can connect to a MONITOR? Note I do NOT have a TV and it looks as though these using can only connect via TV. I presume a cheap laptop would do the job but would I get Hi Fi quality sound by connecting one?
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Jul 21, 2011
I get very low sound quality when downloading pod casts. I tried the same file on a windows machine and there the sound was good.What can I do? Should I upgrade the sound card driver?
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Jan 6, 2010
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Aug 4, 2010
When I turn my sound up all the way I hear a white noise or "staticy" sound which I do not know how to get rid of. My sound when playing music is not the best sound quality either. Please help me out somebody please. Here is my sound card info:
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Nov 26, 2010
having some massive sound quality issues... my sound sounds so incredibly horrible.. it sounds like my speakers are blown out, all crackly and ******. at a loss because i do have sound, it just sounds horrible.
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Mar 7, 2010
So far i have tried ubuntu. seems great however i've had trouble with internet connection and soundcard problems. (slow internet connection and poor sound quality. I was thinking of trying kubuntu. Do you think i'll have the same problems?
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Nov 8, 2010
I got a 5.1 desktop sound sys for my recently built gaming rig. It sounds great. On Windows, that is. In ubuntu when I'm playing music, primarily when the subwoofer plays the bass, the speakers sound like they're farting and ripping phone books in half. Also, they get very statticy and sort of quiet. In sound preferences, analog stereo duplex is selected, if that's of any value. How can I get good sound playback in ubuntu?
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Apr 3, 2011
The quality of sound I am getting is very poor with lots of noises.I'm using openSUSE 11.4 on a DELL Inspiron 6400, and the sound is "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller".I have tried removing pulseaudio but it did not change anything.I had no problem with the sound on 11.2 and the quality of sound is normal on Windows.
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Mar 24, 2010
I have an acer aspire netbook with intel graphics. To get the graphics fully working I had to execute the script from the following page: [URL]...That broke the audio. So, I bought a cheap USB soundcard. I plugged it in, it was recognized and worked immediately. But the sound quality was horrible. Next, I bought some reasonably expensive Logitech USB headphones. They also immediately worked. The sound quality is a bit better, but still bad. One weird thing is that the audio quality improves with increasing CPU usage.What is also interesting is that the sound quality is perfect with bluetooth headphones. So the jitter really seems to be associated with snd_usb_audio somehow. But I have no idea what to do about.
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Aug 27, 2010
So I recently installed Linux mint 64 bit version, and when I play certain songs, and it hits a certain bass, it crackles and pops. A lot. And I have tried a lot, but cannot figure it out. Any ideas? Musics fine on windows :/
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Feb 14, 2010
I've been having this problem for many months and I have finally isolated it to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53 driver (downloaded direct from the NVIDIA website).
I have an Asus A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1013 Motherboard (which has a built in Realtek AC'97 soundcard).
My video card is NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO
I am running Slackware 12.2, KDE 3.5, Kernel 2.6.27.31.
My problem is: Sound quality when only playing song files through xmms, songbrid, Amarok, etc... is garbled. Although games, Movies, DvD's, Video files, all sound through that media is perfect and clear.
I have already used Slackware 13, KDE 4.2.2 and I thought the problem was with KDE 4+ so I reinstalled to Slackware 12.2 and KDE 3.5. Everything was working great until I installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53 driver so my video card works like it should and games work under Wine.
But I am at a loss on how I can get the soundcard working. I suspect something within the NVIDIA driver is conflicting with my soundcard.
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Aug 15, 2010
Does anyone notice a degradation in sound quality with skype and pulseaudio? It seems that when I use pulseaudio there are bugs in the sound quality in skype. I also notice a lag when talking to someone with the VoIP feature.
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Dec 13, 2009
I have worked the whole day to get an multimedia player that plays all format's. After trying vlc, realplayerGold, Xine, Kaffeine, Rhythmbox and Totem, I ended up at kaffeine.
I virtually installed al gstreamer-plugins,, like:
Code:
Dependencies Resolved
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
gstreamer-plugins-bad i586 0.10.13-7.fc11 rpmfusion-free-updates 1.1 M
gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel i586 0.10.13-7.fc11 rpmfusion-free-update 15 k
gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel-docs i586 0.10.13-7.fc11 rpmfusion free-updates 163 k
gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras i586 0.10.13-7.fc11 rpmfusion-free-updates 69 k .....
Transaction Summary
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 167 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
It seems I can play at least an mpeg movie, and mp3. But I find the quality of sound of the mp3 in kaffeine very poor. Yes, it plays, but some mp3's are struggling the first 10 seconds or so,, eg, Shivers - Armin van Buuren. When I play the same mp3 in xmms, it plays like a charm. That's not what I want, I want an all-round multimedia player. Xine does the job very well,, like xmms,, and plays also the mpeg, but unfortunately, xine shows an error message about a segmentation fault, upon exiting xine. Any hint to play mp3 files in kaffeine like xmms does?
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Aug 26, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Dimension 4600 and the sound quality isn't very good. I loaded VirtualBox and installed WinXP on it. If I play the same ..... video on Ubuntu and then on the Vbox WinXP machine the difference is startling. It sounds beautiful on the WinXP machine. Is there any way to improve the sound quality on Ubuntu? When I play the video (any video) on Ubuntu there is a lot of static noise to contend with.
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May 11, 2010
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 510m with onboard Intel 855 sound (STAC 9750 AC97). The sound was perfect with WinXP, but with Ubuntu it's tinny and lacks richness and vibrates and distorts at higher volumes. I've played around with Alsamixer and changed the driver from ALSA to OSS4 and it has improved slightly, but still not perfect. Is it just not gonna get any better, should I not be expecting it to be as good as WinXP?
I've seen on the Intel site a Linux driver for my controller, it's a tarball but it won't compile after extracting it (read on this forum that someone had the exact same problem with that driver). Will the Intel driver not help, does the problem go deeper than just the driver? It would be perfect it you could just wrap the Dell/Intel driver and use that (just like with wireless ndiswrapper).
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Apr 7, 2010
I just got my hands on an MSI E7235-295US and slapped Ubuntu 9.10 on it. So far everything's worked great, but I am beginning to get a bit concerned about my sound quality. The laptop itself has 5 speakers + subwoofer so I should be getting 5.1 sound, if I understand things correctly (the newegg link should provide more details) and when I play anything (music, flash, videos, games, etc...) the sound comes out 'muffled'. Almost as if it is in a concert hall, maybe. I initially wondered if the problem is related to the 5 speakers and if the sound is initially only setup for two. If that is the case, nothing I've done has seemed to made any real difference. I've tried changing the master/pci channels, but it only hides it a little, and doesn't solve the problem.
This seemed to be on the right track, but the laptop is still really new and not listed in the alsa file.
Some info:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7220
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at f8ef8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
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Jan 6, 2010
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Feb 20, 2010
I have a n2pap-lite motherboard with a AMD Sempron 2800+. My host clock is at 133mhz when it needs to at least be at 166mhz to be a AMD Sempron 2800+... I installed the system on 100mhz clock not thinking that it mattered.
I tried the following
sudo apt-get install rcconf
sudo rcconf
*Disabled "ondemand"
It says on guides that it will ask me to reboot but it doesn't, so I manually did it and put the CPU Frequency Monitor on my taskbar. It does not have the options like it shows in the screenshots to set my CPU frequency..
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Jan 8, 2011
I'm looking for a CPU frequency applet which monitors the frequency of ALL CPUs at once.
Does it exist such applet?
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Feb 7, 2011
I wanted to be able to see the frequency my cpu is running at
Quote:
Originally Posted by xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
CPUFreq support is not present. The CPUFreq Monitor will not function this session.
Code:
~$ cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 006: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
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Apr 30, 2011
I'm running ubuntu 11.04 with a Pentium T2060 1.6ghz. Ubuntu only lets it go up to 1.2ghz. And no its not a cpu power saving feature. In Windows it gets to 1.6ghz fine
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Jan 17, 2010
I have the CPU frequency scaling applet in the panel and it worked fine when I had 8.10 but now that I'm using Karmic, I cant get it to work correctly!
It won't change the speed to what I tell it to. I click on a different speed and it does nothing.
The CPU spins too slowly and videos lag or it spins at full speed and overheats even though I have nothing open! I really need to be able to adjust it.
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Jun 25, 2010
I have edited /etc/logrotate.conf to include
/var/log/auth.log {
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copytruncate
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}
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Either im doing it wrong or i need to restart some service?
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Jun 28, 2010
I am new to ubuntu. I have just one question, everytime I reboot my laptop the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor goes back to "On Demand." Why is that and can I also set it so it stays on Performance.
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Jul 31, 2010
After some updates system doesnt login.In the monitor displays out of frequency.
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Sep 26, 2010
I am doing a project on how power consumption of a CPU can be improved by underclocking the lower P-states and overclocking the highest p-state.In this way you can increase both the performance of the chip and it's average power usage (assuming you don't run the chip at 100% 24/7).
To do this project I need to be able to change the voltage and frequency of the chip for all of the different p-states of the chip. On Windows I can use k10stat, RMClock or AMD Overdrive.
What can I use in Linux? I found k10ctl, but it always complained about not being able to find /dev/cpu/0, so I looked in /dev and noticed that their isn't even a cpu directory in there!
I have a moderate amount of experience so I don't mind changing kernels or doing other hard tasks to get this to work.
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Oct 11, 2010
A week ago, after some daily update, my cpu frequency monitor stopped working, i'm stuck with 800 mhz now Yesterday i upgraded to 10.10 version, but this applet still doesn't work. or maybe there are alternative programs that change cpu frequency as well? I was looking in software center, but found only monitors so far.
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