Changelog: Revision PA1 6/22/08 soundcheck
I'd recommend to use Audacious as a basic player for best sound. (There is no need to run XMMS any
longer.) Featurewise Amarok is my preference as a player.
Run Audacious under realtime conditions. Prerequisite is a realtime-kernel as it is coming with Ubuntu Studio.
The application has to be started as root (sudo)to get access to the realtime-priorities.
Assuming Audacious has been installed with synaptics, you can prepare it for realtime performance.
You can also install it via command line:
$ sudo apt-get install audacious
$ cd ~
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/audacious /usr/bin/audacious.bin
$ chmod 750 /usr/bin/audacious.bin
$ sudo gedit /usr/bin/audacious
startscript audacious---Copy below lines into the editor
- !/bin/bash
chrt -f -p 98 /usr/bin/audacious.bin
exit 0
save and exit
$ sudo chmod 750 /usr/bin/audacious
Now: Don't forget to copy your reference audio files to /dev/shm to play them from there.
Start audacious
$ sudo audacious
Under preferences/audio
1. tick Bypass all of signal processing if possible
2. set buffer size to lowest possible level
3. under Output plugin preferences - Advanced select lowest buffer possible.
Now: Don't forget to copy your reference files to /dev/shm to play them from there.
Enjoy!!
