I think I know what the issue was. It's basically not a hardware problem but a usability one.
For some reason the sound volume I want doesn't save. So I have to regularly turn on the sound. In the menu on the sidebar I accidentally deleted the volume control. I could not find the default one in the menu, so I added another one that not only loads slowly (a pain), but also makes it easy to turn up the volume too high. The result is a bad sound. If I turn it up there to the recommended high, or a bit lower, the sound is fine. So I guess this is NOT anything to do with rhythmbox, just with how ill adapted ubuntu is to ordinary people. And I'm really quite good with computers compared to your average newbie. I mean - even this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems is really hard to read for anyone who is used to a windows platform. -- since latest full ubuntu update sound is not good. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487219 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
