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    [SOLVED] howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    Hello there

    I've got Emu 0404 USB device and it gives me distorted sound due to sampling rate incompatibilities. 0404 by default works in 48Khz, but PulseAudio default sampling rate is 44.1

    I need to change PulseAudio's default sampling rate from 44.1 to 48

    or to change sampling rate for my 0404 USB card which doesn't seems possible to me

    p.s. I'm on ubuntu 8.10

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    If your sound card receives a 44.1KHz stream, it should automatically resample it to 48KHz if it can't play 44.1KHz natively.

    Nevertheless, you can try configuring the default sample rate. See this: http://linux.die.net/man/5/pulse-daemon.conf

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    You can change that in

    /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

    Just look for the line
    Code:
    ;default-sample-rate = 44100
    and change it to look like this:
    [code]
    default-sample-rate = 48000
    [code]

    be sure to edit out the ;
    you will need to restart pulseaudio for that to take effect
    To stop pulseaudio:
    Code:
    killall pulseaudio
    To restart pulseaudio
    Code:
    pulseaudio -D
    Be sure to let us know if that works for you or not. If it does, please mark this thread as solved using the thread tools above.

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    Quote Originally Posted by Temüjin View Post
    If your sound card receives a 44.1KHz stream, it should automatically resample it to 48KHz if it can't play 44.1KHz natively.

    Nevertheless, you can try configuring the default sample rate. See this: http://linux.die.net/man/5/pulse-daemon.conf
    well, as for card - in linux it doesn't automatically resample anything. No native drivers

    thanks for the link! Will try this right now

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    You can change that in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
    The man pages states that PA will look in the user's home dir (~/.pulse) for daemon.conf before resorting to using the system-wide file in /etc. So make sure you write the "default-sample-rate = 48000" to ~/.pulse/daemon.conf as well if that file exists

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    Quote Originally Posted by jodaka View Post
    well, as for card - in linux it doesn't automatically resample anything. No native drivers

    thanks for the link! Will try this right now
    The last time I checked, EMU chips resampled in hardware. Maybe the USB card is different.

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    Perfect, thanks a bunch guys!

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    Re: [SOLVED] howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    hi!
    this solution works fine with e-mu 0404!
    thanks!

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    Re: howto change PulseAudio sampling rate

    Quote Originally Posted by markbuntu View Post
    be sure to edit out the ;
    All right, I've never paid attention to that fact and always wondered why it ignores my 48kHz and defaults to 44.1kHz. Thank you very much, markbuntu!!

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