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I'm trying to make ALSA 1.0.23 to use different resampling algorithm. I did some research on the Internet and found that putting the line defaults.pcm.rate_converter "<library>" into either /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc will tell ALSA to use different resampling algorithm.

However, it doesn't seem to work. Putting the following line into ~/.asoundrc defaults.pcm.rate_converter "speexrate_best" doesn't have any effect on either CPU usage or the list of loaded libraries (doing lsof -n | grep speex while playing something yields nothing). Although, the following snippet forces ALSA to use new resampling algorithm:

pcm.!default {
    type rate
    slave {
        pcm "hw:0,0"
        rate 48000
    }
    converter "speexrate_best"
}

Doing so makes CPU usage to 10-15% and makes two new shared libraries appear in the list of lsof, but software mixing stops working and I can't play multiple audio files.

I'm probably missing something obvious. What can be an issue here?

Rui F Ribeiro
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  • Hi user310, did the trick improve your audio? Do you know a way to test if alsa is already using the best possible rate? – Thomas Ahle Jan 26 '12 at 17:26

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Looks like mplayer was doing resampling all the way long. Playing some wav files with aplay shows that the new resampling algorithm is being used as intended.

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