Sound Check!

Sound Check! -

-Finally. Some music. If everything above is perfect, you should now be able to -listen to some good music. A quick way to test is to use a command line tool -like media-sound/madplay. You could also use something more well known -like mpg123. If you are an ogg fan, you could use ogg123 provided -by media-sound/vorbis-tools. Use any player you are comfortable with. As -always, emerge what you need. +If everything above is perfect, you should now be able to test your sound card +and your speakers. We will use the speaker-test command line tool from +package media-sound/alsa-utils (this should already be installed as per +our previous recommendation).

+(If you have a stereo system) +$ speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D front -

-(Install the applications you want)
-# emerge madplay mpg123
-(To play .ogg files)
-# emerge vorbis-tools
+(If you have a 5.1 system)
+$ speaker-test -t wav -c 6 -D surround51

-And then play your favorite sound track... +Press CTRL+C to interrupt the test.

- -

-# madplay -v /mnt/shyam/Music/Paul\ Oakenfold\ -\ Dread\ Rock.mp3
-MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al.
-          Title: Dread Rock
-         Artist: Paul Oakenfold
-          Album: Matrix Reloaded
-           Year: 2003
-          Genre: Soundtrack
-                 Soundtrack
- 00:04:19 Layer III, 160 kbps, 44100 Hz, joint stereo (MS), no CRC
-
-# ogg123 Paul\ Oakenfold\ -\ Dread\ Rock.ogg
-Audio Device:   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
-
-Playing: Paul Oakenfold - Dread Rock.ogg
-Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
-Genre: Soundtrack
-Transcoded: mp3;160
-Title: Dread Rock
-Artist: Paul Oakenfold
-Date: 2003
-Album: Matrix Reloaded
-Time: 00:11.31 [04:28.75] of 04:40.06  (200.6 kbps)  Output Buffer  96.9%
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