Crappy Sound with ALSA

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ränkeschmied
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Crappy Sound with ALSA

Post by ränkeschmied »

Hi,
I enabled Audio for the VM and use the ALSA driver, Host: Ubuntu 9.04 , Guest: XP with SP1
Generally the sound works, but what's bugging me is the quality of the audio. I often notice some small distortions and interruptions. It's not a big thing - but prevents me from using any multimedia-application with Vbox. Is there any trick or hint, to improve this? Maybe some interrupt-setting in the system panel?

regards -
r.
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Re: Crappy Sound with ALSA

Post by Sasquatch »

Ubuntu uses PulseAudio by default, so set it to use that instead of ALSA.
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