ogg/vorbis files have noise, mp3s don't [SOLVED]

Penguin of Wonder

I just grip installed (which was a struggle), so I ripped a CD or two to my hard drive to test it out. I ripped them all in ogg. At first I just thought it was the ultra crappy laptop speakers my DELL came with, but I get the same noise with my Bose headphones as well. I thought perhaps it was a hardware problem, but the noise isn't there when I rip the same songs in MP3. It sounds like the tracks in ogg were doubled over, except the background track (the noise) sounds like a bad midget choir from the Wizard of Oz. I found another thread about noise and they fixed that by switching from XMMS to another player, so I downloaded Rhythmbox, but it produces the same results. Any suggestions?

Any help is always appreciated! Thanks.
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flazz · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 496 Location: Florida

one of two things is happening, the encoding went wrong OR the decoding is going wrong (OR both)

which codecs/apps are you using to rip, encode, and decode. XMMS and Rhythmbox could be using the same coDEC(oder) so the results will be the same.

to test the playback grab an ogg file that you can trus was encoded properly. play it with ogg123 (man ogg123), then if xmms or rhythmbox still sounds bad its the playback method for those apps, decoder.

to test the encoding find a wav file and encode it with oggenc (man oggenc) and then play it with ogg123.

i'd assume the ripping stage isnt the problem because mp3s are ripped properly.

basically use oggenc and ogg123 to test if your apps are messed up.

also could you not be hooked up to alsa properly, are you using esd or arts and its not configured properly?

Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:08 am Post subject:

I'm using Grip to rip my audio. The codec it says its using to rip the .wav file is "Grip (cdparanoia)", regular old cparanoia is listed as well, I don't know the difference. But I've only used to grip version so far. The encoder for my ogg files is "oggenec". I'm not real sure about this, but xmms uses the Ogg Vorbis Player 1.2.10 [libvorbis.so] plugin. I assume thats my decoder. I don't know what rhythm box uses, and I honestly don't know how to find out. Its not listed anywhere I can see, not like xmms' was.

I "trust" all of my rips I suppose, I don't know why I wouldn't. But playing

flazz · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 496 Location: Florida

chances are if you are using kde you have arts, i cant think of another reason you would tho, but f you are using gnome, i think you could have a better chance of using esd.

determine if you have a sound daemon:

Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject:

I'm actually using Fluxbox with a random array of Gnome/Gnome based and KDE/KDE based programs

yngwin · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject:

Which version of media-sound/vorbis-tools do you use?
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Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

Kabuto · l33t Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 701

You might try to filter you CFLAGS down if possible. Also another option might be to filter out MMX and SSE by building with MCPU=

yngwin · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

Try the ~arch versions of libogg, libvorbis and vorbis-tools. Also, instead of grip, I recommend RubyRipper. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3575223.html#3575223
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yngwin · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:35 am Post subject:

Rubyripper is in portage now, so no need to check out my overlay for that.
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Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:28 am Post subject:

I have updated the given lib files to the testing versions. After syncing I found rubyripper in Portage, but I cannot for the life of me emerge it. I have even gone as far as putting

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

in my /etc/make.conf file. Yet I still cannot install it. Any ideas on whats up with that? I haven't tested the new libs with grip yet though, I will report back. Thanks for the help so far.
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Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:04 am Post subject:

For some reason I couldn't get Grip to work, but after using cdparinoia and oggenc through the CLI my single track no longer has noise. So I suppose there must of been something wrong with vorbis encoder. I'll mark this thread fixed. If anyone can emerge rubyripper let me know!

Once again thanks for the help!
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Nate_S · Guru Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 414

Looks to me like the rubyripper ebuild is marked ~amd64 only. just copy the ebuild to your overlay and add ~x86 to the keywords. I did that and it worked just fine

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