Debian Bug report logs - #266515
esound-clients: all sorts of creative failures playing back WAV files

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joanne Valentine-Cooper <jvc@menagerie.tf>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: esound-clients: all sorts of creative failures playing back WAV files

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:42:43 -0400

Package: esound-clients
Version: 0.2.34-1
Severity: important

Somewhere between 0.2.29-1 and the version being reported, esdplay lost
the ability to work correctly. The symptoms are as follows:

Occasionally, a monoaural WAV will not work where it did once before.
Attempts to play them thenreturn:
unsupported sound format: 4112
If I open them in Audacity and resave them, they'll sometimes play back,
but at doubled speed.

Some stereo WAVs are also affected. When I attempt to play them, I get:
unsupported sound format: 4128
Opening and resaving in Audacity will cause them to seemingly work.
Sometimes. (It's failed on me once, but it's more reliable than using
the original file).

Sometimes restarting the esd daemon fixes these issues (including the
doubled speed playback, which is REALLY interesting). Sometimes. It's
pretty much a crapshoot, and I cannot for the life of me find any
reproducable circumstances under which it will and/or will not fix the
issue.

I had nothing even approximating these problems with 0.2.29-1, and
frankly I'm flabberghasted as to what could be causing these issues. I'm
submitting this bug report, incomplete and fragmentary as it is, out of
some desperate hope that someone out there will be able to figure out
what's going wrong.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages esound-clients depends on:
ii  esound-common               0.2.34-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common 
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-4      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.34-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 

-- no debconf information

Message #8 received at 266515-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>

To: 266515-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed?

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:46:27 +0200

Can you please test the latest esound packages to see whether the
problem you reported in #266515 is fixed?

If it isn't fixed then please check to see whether the problem afflicts
all applications that use esd (e.g., xmms with the esd output selected)
or just esdplay.

-- 
Thomas Hood

Message #13 received at 266515-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 266515-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: your bug -- esound-clients: all sorts of creative failures playing back WAV files

Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:40:26 -0500

Hey Joanne

Could you test if this bug still around in recent releases of the
esound packages?
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266515

-- 
Clear skies,
Justin

Message #18 received at 266515-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joanne Valentine-Cooper <jvc@menagerie.tf>

To: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>, 266515-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#266515: your bug -- esound-clients: all sorts of creative failures playing back WAV files

Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:17:10 -0500

Excerpt of email dated 1/23/2006 15:40 from 'Justin Pryzby':
> Hey Joanne
> 
> Could you test if this bug still around in recent releases of the
> esound packages?
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266515

(apologies for the delay in replying; life has been very involved lately)

Unfortunately the environment I had under which this bug was occuring 
isn't around anymore (it was swapped out for a solution using alsa+dmix, 
and then the system in question died prematurely), so I can't really 
test anymore. Sorry!

-- 
Joanne Valentine-Cooper (aka "Viqsi")        <http://menagerie.tf/~jvc/>
 Of course, I don't know how interesting any of this really is,
 but now you've got it in your brain cells so you're stuck with it.
      --Gary Larson

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Cc: esound@packages.debian.org

Subject: Bug#894269: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 03:42:15 +0000

Version: 0.2.41-11+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package esound has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/894269

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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