emu 1212m or f7 semitone #

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:34:33PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> If I go to youtube and play "Dazed and Confused" (the second example 
> with the Led Zeppelin album cover) through the emu 1212m it's in F. If I 
> play that same clip through my old onboard card it plays in E. It should 
> be in E. If I play a store-bought music CD on my CD drive of the PC 
> (which invokes totem movie player) it also plays about a semitone too 
> high. My own CD-quality CD plays too high as well. An .ogg stored on the 
> PC plays a semitone too high.

So it is playing about 5% too fast too?  Measure how long the youtube
clip takes compared to how long it claims to take.

I assume the CD is being played using digital audio extraction rather
than analog passthrough.

Might be time to ask the alsa developers for advice.

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Len Sorensen
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