I had a similar experience after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04. mpg123 would (sometimes, not always... and it's streaky, staying repeatedly broken or repeatedly working over several attempts) play extremely fast, producing garbled output that finishes in a fraction of the expected time (e.g. a 5 minute, 20 second song finished in 27 seconds). The same mp3 file played in mpg321 did not exhibit this behavior, nor have I noticed it in other audio-producing programs. Resetting pulseaudio doesn't help (in fact, if it's on a working streak doing so makes it garbled again). Playing audio from other apps (e.g. a web browser) at the same often makes it work (for a while) even after ending the other app's audio.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mpg123 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585926 Title: mp3 files decode as crackly noise Status in mpg123 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: MP3 files have started decoding as crackly noise instead of the intended sound (typically, music). Occasionally but not reliably, the crackly noise becomes music, as though it were a mere synchronisation error and mpg123 finds a sync signal. (I have no reason to believe that that is happening at a technical level, I offer it as an analogy for the occasional behaviour I've noticed.) While it's possible that this is only files on my disk that are corrupted, this would suggest that my backups have been similarly corrupted, so that hypothesis seems less likely. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: mpg123 1.22.4-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: i3 Date: Thu May 26 09:46:53 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-23 (215 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) SourcePackage: mpg123 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-16 (9 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mpg123/+bug/1585926/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
