I often make the remark that soundcards in laptops/motherboards are bad. F.e. I say “It does not perform better then 12 bit”. What I mean by this is the following: If you turn an analog signal into a digital signal, you introduce errors, because you only have X defined levels, not infite as with analog. read more
Category Archives: Music
Dmix, the pain or MPD High cpu usage
December 21, 2008 – 12:22 pm
At mpd we are having an issue with high cpu usage, this started when alsa decided to use the great dmix by default. We now know this is caused by resampling. I never hit this problem and kind of assumed that the soundcards it happens on only supported 48khz sample rate. (with some crappy old read more
Beryl
February 2, 2007 – 11:35 pm
I’ve tried beryl today on my laptop. At first it didn’t work, segfaults kind of fun. After searching the web a little I found out that todays update broke beryl for fglrx. So one downgrade later I had everything running. There is only one thing I can say WOW! It really is improved since the read more
Not too late
January 26, 2007 – 4:50 pm
I’ve bought the new album from Norah Jones today: “Not Too Late” Like always it’s a pleasure to listen to, again and again. Her voice is simply beautiful, there is no need to polish it using a computer (Like they do with most artist from the hit lists). Having that said, I am not a read more