.wavs play but not .mp3s

[Benjamin Sobotta]

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Datum: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:07:09 -0800
Von: David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
An: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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Betreff: .wavs play but not .mp3s

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm not having any trouble playing .wav files; lame -h
> seems to happily convert them, and mpg123 and madplay
> don't complain when I ask them to play .mp3s, but I'm
> also not hearing any sound.
> 
> xmms does nothing.  I'm not getting any visible errors
> in any of this.
> 
> I tried using the sample command from the FreeBSD manual,
> which specifies a device; I don't have dsp1.0 so I tried
> dsp0.0 .
> 
> I have:
> 
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 45 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 48 Mar  6 22:28 /dev/dsp0.1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 51 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.2
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 54 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.3
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 57 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.4
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 61 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.5
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 46 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 49 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 52 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.2
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 55 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.3
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 58 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.4
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 62 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.5
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 60 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspr0.4
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 64 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspr0.5
> 
> So, why is this such a problem?
> 
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> David Benfell, LCP
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Hi!

I'm not sure about this, but sometimes the volume of the different output devices is just maladjusted. You may want to check the output of "mixer" to see if any relevant devices are zero.

Maybe this helps,

Benjamin