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From: Lady Ada <ladyada@xenu.com>
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Subject: Re: O si o [sound question]
To: S.Brandenburg@tu-bs.de
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:21:29 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <32A73E4B.41C67EA6@algieba.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> from Sven Brandenburg at "Dec 5, 96 10:27:39 pm"
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> Playing 8bit,8kHz .au files with rplay or (well..) `cat sample.au >
> /dev/audio` sounds perfect (As far as 8bit can be perfect) but trying 16
> bit samples I get /&%$§"!.

I know I'm not adding to the solution, but whenever *I* play 8bit
.au's i get pauses all the time, as if the kernel was buffering and
waiting for the card. This happens with realaudio, rplay, cat>/dev/audio,
au etc... i remember seeing a thread about it on usenet but I lost it
and now my newsservers is committing grand suckage. I tried searching
the database and the FAQ, but came out with nothing. Oi! 
(And I'm running 2.2 so don't tell me to upgrade <grrr>)

	ada

ps, the card is a soundblaster 16(?) PnP multimedia schtick. nothing 
unusual, i think