[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#455691: MP3 Decoding regression: audible clipping and popping

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I tested with both Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files, and didn't find any files that
> cracked.  However, I just tried a few other files from my music library, and
> I found one Ogg Vorbis file which cracks as well, and I know it did not do so
> before.  So apparently the problem does not only occur with MP3s.

 Can you check whether you have:
   <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437827>

 There's a patch to revert an upstream ALSA change somewhere in the
 linked bug reports.  The issue has been uncovered because a GStreamer
 element is now capable of outputting 32-bits samples; as it was only
 16-bits in the past, it didn't expose the underlying ALSA bug.

-- 
Loïc Minier