On 2008-04-10, Zbigniew Baniewski  wrote:

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> I would to ask about the issue to be found under Linux - is it valid for

> OpenBSD's "audio" too?

No, OpenBSD doesn't resample.
> http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=93315

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> "The latest versions of ALSA which are included with Ubuntu Edgy, and I

> think Dapper Drake as well, will resample all audio to 48kHz if your

> soundcard does not support hardware mixing. This is also true if the driver

> doesn't support hardware mixing. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely

> no support for hardware mixing with any of the Envy24 chips in Linux. The

> problem with this resampling is that by default ALSA uses a poor resampling

> algorithm to save CPU usage, and destroys the quality of everything played

> back. ALSA uses this software mixing and resampling in order to let more

> than one application play audio at the same time. I have found a solution to

> the audio quality issue however. [..]"