hi everyone: i'm running on a PIII with kernel 2.4.18 and Alsa 0.9.0rc6 and a Hammerfall 9636 card. Alsa has been working fine for the last year, or so it seems. recently a scsi CD burner was installed. i have some recordings of live performances made with "arecord", version 0.9.0beta8a. they play back just fine, but when i tried to burn them to CD, they were low by about 2 to 3 half steps. Joerg Shilling suggested that Alsa was writing the wrong headers. so i upgraded to rc6 and on the first try on each of the old WAV files, "aplay" also played them too slowly. however, on subsequent runs, everything was fine again. i don't understand this behaviour at all. someone on LAU suggested that since it was too low by about 2-3 half steps, data was being recorded at 48000 but Alsa thought it was at 44100. info in /proc/asound/hammerfall/rme9652: ------------snip------------- . . Latency: 4096 samples (2 periods of 16384 bytes) Hardware pointer (frames): 0 Passthru: no Clock mode: autosync Pref. sync source: ADAT1 IEC958 input: Coaxial IEC958 output: Coaxial only IEC958 quality: Consumer IEC958 emphasis: off IEC958 Dolby: off IEC958 sample rate: error flag set ADAT Sample rate: 44100Hz . . ---------snip----------------- for months up until about an hour ago the ADAT sample rate read 48000. in that hour i changed my .asoundrc from -----------snip--------------- pcm.hammerfall { #"hammerfall" is the alias for "snd-rme9652" in /etc/modules.conf type hw card0 } ctl.hammerfall { type hw card0 } -----------snip--------------- to the following -----------snip--------------- pcm.rme9652 { #changed from "hammerfall" to "rme9652" on 12.15.2002 type hw card 0 } ctl.rme9652 { #same as above comment type hw card 0 } ---------snip----------------- after the .asoundrc change i recorded a fresh WAV and burned it to CD but with the same problem -- too slow. also, with the new .asoundrc, version rc6 plays WAV's recorded with the old .asoundrc and version rc6 a little too fast. i'm at a loss for new ideas to debug this. can anyone enlighten me about this, or does anyone know where i can download some reference WAV files (for example, a middle C tone) to check whether the burning problem might involve Alsa or whether it's something else in my setup? any pointers would be greatly appreciated. tia, patrick