Audio quality poorer in FC5 than SuSE

[phreak0ut]

I've got FC5 installed and I'm able to play most audio using XMMS only as of now. I'm trying out with other players, but I find the audio to be of very poor quality compared to SuSE. I used XMMS on that and the sound was as sharp as Windows on that. Could you guys please tell me if there's a fix for that? At present, I'm not able to run other players, for example, Amarok as the yum update keeps complaining about MySQL stuff(noob linux user here )

Please let me know if there are any ways to improve the sound quality.

[phreak0ut]

One more thread of mine not answered

[jack// ani]

try asking in OpenSource section...for better response.

[mehulved]

Cos it's in wrong section. If you keep on posting in wrong section it is likely to go unanswered.

[eddie]

Have you ever though why your questions are going unanswered? Have you ever thought that it could be because of you or the way you ask questions? Just look at this question...Do you want us to just guess your SuSE version? Do you want us to guess your hardware setup? Do you want us to just KNOW your speaker setup? How can we help you when you just don't give us details.

You must give us more info my friend! The more you tell us about your problem...the more we will be able to help you.

[phreak0ut]

Originally Posted by eddie

Have you ever though why your questions are going unanswered? Have you ever thought that it could be because of you or the way you ask questions? Just look at this question...Do you want us to just guess your SuSE version? Do you want us to guess your hardware setup? Do you want us to just KNOW your speaker setup? How can we help you when you just don't give us details.

You must give us more info my friend! The more you tell us about your problem...the more we will be able to help you.

Well, I found the quality poorer in general compared to SuSE, that's the reason I didn't post the version. My signature is my hardware setup. Speaker setup is normal 2 channel stereo. Well, I posted this a long time back and QnA should cover most of the topics right? Yes, I should have posted it in the Open Source section. My bad!

[eddie]

I have disabled the viewing of signatures thus there is no way for me to know your hardware setup. Also, even if you meant general audio quality...the version of your distro means a lot. It could be that the latest version had better drivers for your sound card, it had increased audio buffer setup etc. There can be lots of things behind it.

[phreak0ut]

I've seen the difference from FC4 to FC6 with SuSE 9.3 to SuSE 10.2. The sound quality somehow is very clear in SuSE compared to FC. That tells about the distro. My hardware setup is this:

My specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+(Socket 939 Venice core)
MSI RS-480-M2 motherboard
1X512 MB RAM @ 400Mhz(Hynix module)
Seagate 160GB SATA HDD
Samsung Combo drive
Samsung CD drive

[praka123]

@Phreakout- u may be correct as ALSA project leader Jaroslav Kysela is also an employee of Suse Novell...so some benefeit some fine tunings and updated alsa rpms for suse is a chance
If fedora's got scratchy sound's,it surely be a little older alsa version that is running on FC.but u can get latest fedora rpms from many sites like atrpms.net ,dag wieers etc or configure yum for that.use alsaconf to configure properly.

[Aberforth]

If you go to a doctor and say, "Doctor I'm not feeling well", do you expect the doctor to find your problem without your explaining anything?

[hellknight]

Originally Posted by phreak0utt

I've got FC5 installed and I'm able to play most audio using XMMS only as of now. I'm trying out with other players, but I find the audio to be of very poor quality compared to SuSE. I used XMMS on that and the sound was as sharp as Windows on that. Could you guys please tell me if there's a fix for that? At present, I'm not able to run other players, for example, Amarok as the yum update keeps complaining about MySQL stuff(noob linux user here )

Please let me know if there are any ways to improve the sound quality.

There's a way to get good sound quality. Follow these steps as you're using amarok :-
1. Open windows and install winamp
2. In the equalizer section, select suitable preset, for me its rock.
3. Click on save equalizer to a file.
4. Winamp will create a file called Rock.eqf
5. Run FC6 and then XMMS
6. Now in the equalizer section, enable equalizer and then click on "Import from Winamp eqf file"
7. Navigate to the file you stored "Rock.eqf" in windows partition.
8. Your sound quality will increase now

[phreak0ut]

Hey that's a nice idea!! I'll try that, when I install FC..........again

[rajasekharan]

dont you guys think you were a little too hard on him . come on guys ,relax .