[multimedia/audacious-plugins] Fix playback at wrong tonality

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 5:25 AM <soralx at cydem.org> wrote:
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>
> Howdy!
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>  [CC'ing one of audacious developers whose email I was able to find, as
>   this really is an upstream issue]

Hi there!

Thanks for the heads up. Would you mind opening a PR[1]? Also,
ideally, this would be fixed upstream :-)

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/

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>  I noticed that on a certain USB audio device that I have, audacious would
>  play songs too fast when the sound device is in BITPERFECT mode, while
>  mpv, for example, plays them at correct speed.
>
>  Turns out that this device supports only one samplerate (48.0 ksps), but
>  audacious fails to detect that, and plays the 44.1 ksps song anyway,
>  resulting in playback that is almost 9% too fast.
>
>  The attached patch for OSS4 plugin fixes that. Please review.
>  The 3% figure was chosen more or less arbitrarily, based on a random
>  Internet article [0].
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>  Also, I would like to request the port maintainer to add a DBUS option,
>  enabling to compile the player and its plugins without Linux's dbus
>  dependency ("--disable-dbus" configure option does the trick, though
>  stops `audtool` from building as well).
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> [0] https://cecm.sitehost.iu.edu/etext/acoustics/chapter1_pitch.shtml
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> --
> [SorAlx]  ridin' VN2000 Classic LT