24-bit audio from musicpd gives out white noise with built-in sound driver

[Chris Rees]

On 28 Feb 2011 14:15, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've had some problems with musicpd-1.16_1 and the builtin sound.ko.
> >
> > It seems that they don't play nicely with each other unless I force
> > 16-bit output from musicpd; otherwise I get white noise.
> >
> > Does anyone know off the top of his/her head any reasons that this
> > could be so? OSS from ports works fine as-is for me.
>
> So, if for example you can not play 24-bit in mplayer with oss from
freebsd
> than cause may be sound driver.Which sound driver are you using?
>
> I do not have problems playing 24-bit with snd_hda.

Fascinating, because I do with hda...

I'll perhaps return when I get more from the musicpd devs.

Thanks.

Chris