Description of problem: Audacious produces garbled sound using plain ALSA output. I ruled out a problem with the mp3 decoder from rpmfusion by playing a wav file. MPlayer plays the same files fine using -ao alsa. Severity high because this makes audacious unusable for me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): audacious-plugins-2.1-4.fc12.x86_64 audacious-2.1-5.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play anything using ALSA output plugin. 2. 3. Actual results: Garbled sound. Expected results: Clear sound. Additional info: This line is repeated often in ~/.xsession-errors while audacious is playing: DEBUG: ALSA: alsa-core.c:233 (alsaplug_write_buffer): snd_pcm_writei error: Broken pipe
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 524007 ***
* This build shall fix it for you, too: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1759042 * See bug 530049 for heavy distortion with pulse audio and volume < 100%.
Confirmed, thanks.
This is happening on F11 as well with: $ rpm -q audacious audacious-plugins alsa-lib audacious-1.5.1-11.fc11.x86_64 audacious-plugins-1.5.1-19.fc11.x86_64 alsa-lib-1.0.21-3.fc11.x86_64 although rarely (about once every hour) compared to F-12. The message in .xsession-errors is: DEBUG: ALSA: alsa-core.c:236 (alsaplug_write_buffer): snd_pcm_writei error: Broken pipe The audible effect is as if the file (mp3 in this case) started to play as fast as possible (i.e. at decoding speed, not normal speed) until its end. When the playlist advances to the next file, playback is normal again. Shall I file a separate bug for F11?
On F-11, that's something introduced with a kernel update around Sep/Oct last year. Instead of locking up playback, ALSA sort of skips through the audio sample buffers. I haven't planned to spend any time on that unless it could be fixed with a rather safe upgrade to a new Audacious version.