[pulseaudio-discuss] issue playing 44.1 Khz stereo using Pulseaudio

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Harsha, Priya at 15/09/09 10:10 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> When I play a 44.1Khz stereo file through aplay, the
> file is smooth and clear. When the same 44.1 Khz file
> is played through paplay or any player using Pulseaudio
> the playback is noisy. I see that the stereo file is
> converted into mono and then played. Could there be an 
> issue because of the conversion?

Perhaps paplay is misbehaving but do you you have some kind of virtual 
sink created and have you previously moved a paplay stream to this sink?

Pulseaudio will remember what sink a given application has last used and 
restore it to using that sink.

If this is the case, simply play something with paplay and then move the 
stream to the right sink by running pavucontrol.

Col
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