I can confirm that I have this problem as well on a machine that was upgraded from edgy to feisty. When using mp3lib I get a screeching noise out of the speakers, but if I try to play anything else (ogg, flac etc.) it plays smoothly. I tried setting -ac ffmp3 and that works on some files, but others show other symptoms (skipping, garbled).
It might be worth noting that I'm using spdif output to the home stereo, but mp3lib in mplayer is the only app to display this bug. -- [Feisty] mplayer fails to play mp3 audio correctly with mp3lib https://launchpad.net/bugs/86513 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
