Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
interpolators)
makes the sound *much* worse, the voice is distorted and
becomes "ringing".
So, does your sound card actually support 44.1kHz audio out?
If not, ALSA may be doing a sample rate conversion from 44.1
back to 48kHz and it might be that conversion which is making
a mess of things. I know there have been some bugs in the
ALSA sample rate converter recently.
Thanks - this might be the problem. I will check by playing the files
under Windows, and on another PC which likely does not have the 48k
resampling. Unfortunately I do not have a working CD player now.
BTW, does *your* card support 44.1k output, and perhaps even input? If
yes, what is that card? I'm now interested in getting one that supports
this stuff.