On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 18:39 +0800, Guo Lin wrote: > I play the same mp3 on my FC6 and WinXP on the same PC using the same > speakers. But they sounds really different. I find the music turns > crappy in FC6. I use default settings for the equalizers/mixers etc. > For acapella music, it does not sound too differently between that in > FC6 and WinXP. The 'crappiness' of the music is more significant when > the drums, bass, etc come in the music. The music sounds like it is > played on old bad speakers. > > I just found out that when I play the mp3 in mpg321 in terminal, it > sounds as good as it is played in Windows. But when the same song is > played using other players, they sound much worse than that. That sounds like it could just be down to whatever MP3 decoder is in use. I'd always thought MP3s sounded rather awful, the bass being just one aspect that did. Better encoding, in the first place, helps. But what you use for decoding is just as important. I don't have mpg123, but if you also list one or two of the other players, you might find someone with all of them who can say if they notice a difference, too. The other thing that springs to mind is, if other compressed (e.g. ogg) or non-compressed (e.g. wav) file formats sound okay, that puts the MP3 decoder squarely in the picture for being the problem, rather than the sound card or its drivers. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
