Sound plays _really_ slow in audacity

[jordanthompson]

I finally got around to plugging in my speakers and was shocked that I actually had some sound!!!!

 

I have on-board audio and it plays very slowly and choppy.

Any suggestions?

 

thanks

[volfro]

I'm in the same boat as you. Been trying to fix it for awhile. I have the onboard VIA 8233 sound card. Haven't gotten it to work though.

[devries]

Look in the MCC, hardaware, hardware--> soundcard and see what modules (=drivers) are available. Try out different ones.

 

Or if you used xmms to play the music and you use KDE, try the arts plugin (it's in PLF) or a KDE player like Juk.

 

Or, check the mixer settings in kmix (in KDE, look for the equivalent in Gnome)

 

Good luck.

[jordanthompson]

Thanks for your help,

I am using gnome.

 

VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] is listed

I tried other VT drivers and get exactly the same thing.

[devries]

Short, basic (if you have more questions ask them) explenation about sound:

 

1: the basics=the soundarchitecture = ALSA or OSS. You configure it with the MCC

 

2: mixers/deamons = arts (KDE) or esd (gnome). If you have a soundcard/onboard sound that doesn't support hardware mixing (meaning only one application at a time can use sound) you need one of these. Else you won hear systemsounds when you play a mp3/CD/movie etc etc.

 

3: mixers like kmix and alsamixergui etc etc. With these you can control the different channels (sound in, stereo, volume etc etc)

 

4: applications: like xmms, juk, mplayer etc etc.

 

Now when you have problems with sound, and if you have configured the modules/alsa with the MCC, sound problems are practically always related with 2-3 and 4.

 

Since you don get any errors it not easy to pin point what is wrong so youl have to experiment a bit. Best is to close every soundapp (including arts/esd/mixers etc etc) and play an mp3. If it works alsa (or OSS when you use that (don ) is ok and the app you played i with is ok. Then start esd, tell the app to use esd for sound-out, and play the song again... etc etc You get the idea. (fuser -v /dev/dsp tells you what program is using the soundcard)

 

Good luck.

[jordanthompson]

Thanks very much for your help,

I'll try these out later - right now I am chasing network problems (see my thread on "ethernet hw recognized but can't connect") As soon as this is resolved I'll chase the sound issue.

 

Of course this could be a moot point if go the windoze server route.

 

I can't spend this kind of time on this project. If it was just the sound issue, it wouldn't matter - I could take as long as I need. But I have all of my family's documents (kids reports, company book-keeping, photographs, etc.) on this machine as well as the printers (laser and color) and I am being pestered every day to get it all on-line again (I had Mandrake for years until the motherboard blew up.)