[solved] Eden Audio Quality

(2012-04-24 22:35)davilla Wrote:  let me see an Audacity capture again, 1st 30 seconds of compressorxbmc.mp3

That's not the best sample in my opinion, i used the same song than i did with my previous graph

Here's a new one. From top to bottom: Eden, Finder, testbuild5

I have also been struggling with this problem for some time now. Thought it was my amplifier, but after reading this and tested with earlier versions of XBMC I now know for sure that there's something wrong (or radically changed) with the the new release of Eden.

I have a Mac Mini and use optical out. I have tried the advancedsettings.xml, but it just created another problem. First I had the limiter problem. All music sounded crappy and was compressed. After I altered the advancedsetting.xml I got the audio distortion problem. When I roll back to Eden Beta 3 all problems magically disappear.

I will gladly contribute to the problem solving here, as I'm pretty tired of the crappy audio.

Test this build and confirm if it's ok http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14341410/XBMC-audio-test5.zip

Backup your existing user data first, looks like this test build will upgrade your database version.

thx for testing toiva

No problem. I listened some more songs randomly and everything sounds great.

Davilla!

What do you want? Belgian chocolat or Belgian beer?
Cause you did it my man. For me it works...

So all you others with this problem, please try test5! So we can be sure it's fixed for all of us...

Goodnight!

Slow down cowboys This is just the first steps in doing a fix... Identify the issue. Next we look at fix ramifications and possible interactions with other playback that uses audio. Once we pass these, then we can slam it into mainline.

Just for the records... for me it's also working. Purrs like a cat. Let us know if we can help in further testing.

Anyway thanks a lot for the fix

(2012-04-25 22:42)davilla Wrote:  Slow down cowboys This is just the first steps in doing a fix... Identify the issue. Next we look at fix ramifications and possible interactions with other playback that uses audio. Once we pass these, then we can slam it into mainline.

Would a build based on current stable Eden with this fix included be doable? No way as a official release but shared via your Dropbox account or some other way.

(2012-04-25 22:42)davilla Wrote:  Slow down cowboys This is just the first steps in doing a fix... Identify the issue. Next we look at fix ramifications and possible interactions with other playback that uses audio. Once we pass these, then we can slam it into mainline.

Ah... In that case, you have to wait

Don't know if it's any help but here are two waveforms:
1st: played in itunes
2nd: played in test build 5



Apart from the 2nd being a bit quieter, I don't see and can't hear any difference.