On 10/09/13 09:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Well, I was enthusiastic about this as a solution to the CD problem. Alas, enthusiasm does not survive acquaintance.
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So, what to do? Well, the solution seems to be what a wiser head suggested at the start of this process. Just rip your CDs manually, in fact do the whole thing manually.
The other problem is the player. I am not sure if this is the emachines headphone output. But the volume is very low. It seems that the coding process automatically attenuates the sound by soe 6-8db. So its necessary to get a headphone amp (the Topping ones seem to be the choice). Or else in some unknown way fix this?
Volume: IME, most distros have a volume control widget of some sort, and many of them allow you to select the output device, volume levels on the output device and a master volume. For example, I have output devices Headphones/No Amplifier, and Headphones/Amplifier amongst others. In the past I'm fairly sure that selecting a different output device has had a dramatic affect on the output volume. I would suggest finding a volume control widget for your distro, check if you can chose an output device, and if so, if any are louder than any others. Also, check the volumes for each device, and the master volume. Of course there is probably also a volume control in the playback app and this can sometimes be entirely separate from the other volume controls mentioned earlier.
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Its not nice to be overly critical about something which enthusiasts are doing and releasing out of the goodness of their hearts, but all I can say is, this is not really working for me. Time to look for something else!
Well may I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave earlier....
25 Jul 2013 approx 1PM, subject "Re: [ALUG] linux equivalent for Cocktail Audio X10 HDD HiFi"
HTH Steve