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> I remember some body complining about this about a week ago. Well, now I
> have the problem too.
>
> I traced it back to a switch used by gnome when it spawns the esd
> server.
>
> If you use the "-tcp" instead of the default "-unix" you will hear the
> cracks and pops, actually in my machine it skips and distorts mp3.
>
> Anyway I don't see a reason to use "-tcp" unless you want to serve audio
> services to other machines over the network. But that does not say there
> is no problem; it should work fine with the "-tcp" switch.
>
> Anyone knows anything more about this.
>
> --
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Guesswork indicates that the unix-sockets are 'somewhat' faster than tcp/ip. I think
that will explain the pops and skips. The esd-server is just inderserved by the ip
stack
-tcp is only for localhost so you couldn't even services other machines
