From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTbgC-0006UM-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:20:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25E10E0D14; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46AEE0D14 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvc22 with SMTP id 22so969574pvc.40 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Du4fn8kBd8UTDG4kPO2tgraqDOX2wAco6BcU70Krfgs=; b=xzl9IaWvhSSL1kKbOwGkXHln5cvIdV8Eu4+fq8mKLdKS0Go9uTPppTY7g9oP/Y56kQ GeZfjVzL4VZNakQlNwlZi3m/gNsmqx3kmPhP6FDHzix8ZPOZk6lY+sEqK5WpYbS/G/7p t0xtTw2LeeUF/Ue4CJ3oPl4VM6onM8kG+zHEU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=XYUXzQNlorN14cOai5JQGsWC0ej4QsEHxQR30CzzhaC1BuWDnKEkYaQhG9aNjQmqpS NaCMW2hb07ykVmMnC8dcIruFHI4MjFy2HUq4hrHvglDka9qT8rbiAENdu+AGbUGNN0MX Vgp2qXQ9Zqf9tg/T3JTSa8XGEnhDioKDoT1AE= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.4.20 with SMTP id 20mr6293257wfd.289.1277821229441; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.102.3 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1277750264.4c28ebf808986@oo.vpn.blueboxsoft.pl> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:20:29 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hLdNRxZLtsHAQ27YO72P0VCSwDg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is wrong with lame? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a7c81a44-deee-4a09-bde1-fa30b0f71244 X-Archives-Hash: 59995d92b0fa8f8e484012914554b19a On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Mateusz Mierzwi=C5=84ski > wrote: >> Hi, >> I wish to ask if anyone also have same feeling that Winamp running on Wi= ne >> (ALSA output) have better sound quality than players like VLC, XMMS, Ama= rok >> and even songbird just as many others? >> What's wrong with decoding of audio if I have such feeling running now >> Winamp? >> Thanks, >> Mateusz M. > > Everything sounds normal on my system... can you describe the sound > difference at all? Maybe winamp is doing some kind of equalizing which > changes the sound. Also, check your mixer levels, if they are set to 100% try to make it lower. I used to have a computer that would sound horrible if the levels were much more than 50%.