emu 1212m or f7 semitone #

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>   
Okay, I played "All My Lovin'" - should have been 2:04 -came outof the 
emu 1212m as 1:52.
> I assume the CD is being played using digital audio extraction rather
> than analog passthrough.
>   
Yes, I guess so - I didn't even hook up the analogue audio cable to it 
the last time I opened the box.
> Might be time to ask the alsa developers for advice.
>   
They'll talk to earthlings like me?

Chris
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