[ATrpms-users] mpg123 upgrade sounds dreadful: FIXED

[John Pilkington]

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
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> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com 
> <mailto:promac at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:12 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>     <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
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>         The new mpg123-1.3.0-6.el5 sounds as if a concrete mixer is in
>         the room,
>         with both mp2 and mp3 files.
> 
>         The previous version, 1.2.1-6.el5, still plays well.  I have
>         reverted to
>         it, but I see it's no longer in the repo.
> 
> 
>     Hi, John
> 
>     it is playing just fine in my F8 x86_64 (I am using Axel's version,
>     not mine).
> 
>     I will test it in an i386 box tomorrow, and report the result here.
>      
> 
> 
> 
> I got it. The problem is with alsa < 1.016. They removed a function  
> that affects
> older alsa versions.
> 
> The fix is in version 1.3.1:
> 
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/mpg123-1.3.1-7.fc8.src.rpm
> 
> Can you rebuild it, Axel?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ

Great work.  I always knew a good night's sleep cured all problems!

John P