On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:21 am, rikona wrote: > Hello Aron, > > Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 1:31:17 PM, Aron wrote: > > AS> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:53 am, rikona wrote: > >> Hello Aron, > >> > >> Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 7:00:13 AM, Aron wrote: > >> > >> AS> On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: > >> >> Hello newbie, > >> >> > >> >> I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. > >> >> Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, > >> >> but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' > >> >> in Audacity it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, but can't > >> >> get good sound in Audacity. Any way to get rid of the distortion in > >> >> Amarok? > >> >> > >> >> Also tried streamtuner - very nice. When I try to run Audacity after > >> >> streamtuner, it tells me a copy of Audacity is already running > >> >> (although I may have left a copy running somewhere). I can't seem to > >> >> access it though. How can I do that? > >> > >> AS> Did you try a top command to see if you had another copy of > >> streamtuner AS> running? > >> > >> I have about 120 processes running - too many to display with top, at > >> least on my small screen. ps -A shows me there is a copy of Audacity > >> running, but I didn't know how to "get" to it so I could use it. There > >> wasn't another copy of streamtuner running. > >> > >> Finally decided it was easier to just kill Audacity and start over > >> with a new copy. It's still distorted, though. Any ideas on how to > >> remove the distortion? > >> > >> Thanks, Aron... > > AS> use xmms to play instead of Amarok > > I didn't have xmms installed originally, but streamtuner uses it to > play the stream and it got installed then. Works well. I like the > playlist in Amarok a bit better, but having no distortion is rather > more important. :-) I noticed there are lots of plugins for xmms - > maybe that's the way to go in general. Is xmms what most people use? > > Thanks again, Aron... I use it because there is a plugin called xmmx-diskwriter Some internet radio stations will let you record directly (streamripper) (live365) on trjhese you use totem to play the stream and streamtunr and xmms diskwrier to record :-D
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