#24 Ansi music sound garbage with pulseaudio

[Ragnarok]

Hi Deuce, i have a extrange issue,

I send a .mus file (ansi music file) from the bbs using "exec/type" (baja command) . It's sound garbage. like telegraph dot, line dot.
example file: http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/songs/canthelp.mus

But if i capure the sound using the "Monitor of Analog Internal Audio" on audacity. I can hear correct the ansi music notes.

any light to this dark side?

thanks!

[Stephen James Hurd]

Can you try this in the current alpha in git? I've made some fixes which may address this issue.

[John Nicpon]

Deuce,

I'm having the exact same issue. I just built the latest alpha in Git and it didn't resolve the problem for me. Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot this? It occurs in Ubuntu 20.04/20.10. This happens when I try to play KnK with ANSI Music on or display an ANSI music file from the text file section of SBBS. When the telegraph-like sounds occur, the pulseaudio mixers/alsa mixers flicker in my gui while it's processing ANSI music audio content from SyncTerm. I have no issues when using SyncTerm on Windows 10.

Thanks,
-John (aka WitNik)

[Stephen James Hurd]

I can't think of anything for you to try off-hand, I have a couple of suspicious of what to look at next, but it's clear I'll need to get something set up here to test this with.

[Stephen James Hurd]

Thanks for helping out, it should be fixed in git now.

[Ragnarok]

I will build a lastest git code and then I test again.

[Stephen James Hurd]

Ok, just committed a fix to the ALSA support, which I suspect is what was breaking just because ALSA is preferred over portaudio when it's available.

[Stephen James Hurd]

Also, PulseAudio support was actually disabled in git... enabled and tested now, but certainly wasn't the problem with the latest alpha in Git. Let me know if it works, thanks for the report!

[John Nicpon]

Deuce,

The fix works great! ANSI works as expected for me.

Thanks,
-John (aka WitNik)

[Stephen James Hurd]

Fix confirmed.