Audio aliasing

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Audio aliasing

Unread post by Lunokhod » 2021-09-06, 19:15

I have noticed some loud clicks at the start and end of audio clips on Duolingo. This is quite likely more of a system issue than browser issue. But while looking for some audio test things I found this page:
https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_aliasing.php
Both Firefox and Pale Moon display aliasing (a strange tuning a radio rising and falling weird siren type sound) during the test but Chromium doesn't. This could also be more of a system issue too, but who knows. Using Linux & Alsa, no Pulse. Just wondered if it was interesting given the recent audio discussions.
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Re: Audio aliasing

Unread post by _yuyu_ » 2021-09-06, 21:24

I hear no aliasing artifacts neither in PM nor in FF on my system.
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Re: Audio aliasing

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-09-07, 08:45

Sounds fine to me on my crappy on-board realtek audio and 2.1 speakers on Windows 10.
Maybe you want to check the output frequency set for your device. Certainly doesn't seem to be anything on our end.
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Re: Audio aliasing

Unread post by plushkava » 2021-09-17, 03:07

Lunokhod wrote:
2021-09-06, 19:15
Both Firefox and Pale Moon display aliasing (a strange tuning a radio rising and falling weird siren type sound) during the test but Chromium doesn't. This could also be more of a system issue too, but who knows. Using Linux & Alsa, no Pulse.
In the event that you are relying upon ALSA's software-based mixing, everything must be resampled to a particular frequency (usually 48 kHz). By default, ALSA tries to make use of the speexrate resampler, if available. This is a good, fast resampler. Otherwise, it resorts to using a crude linear resampler. The speexrate resampler is implemented as a plugin that is provided by alsa-plugins, so you should install this package if necessary. Beyond that, you could try coercing the use of the speexrate plugin by defining the following setting in /etc/asound.conf.

defaults.pcm.rate_converter "speexrate_medium"

I'm not sure why Chromium would behave as expected for a "no pulse" setup, because it's not really designed to work effectively without pulseaudio (which also uses speexrate).

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Re: Audio aliasing

Unread post by Lunokhod » 2021-09-17, 20:44

Installing alsa-plugins has fixed this, the aliasing artifacts are gone now. Thank you for this solution.
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