the mystery of effect 'multiple instances' is somewhat revealed.. pulse
audio indeed creates multiple "input"s for some reason... I dunno why.
I converted that file to stereo using sox (thought it would resolve the
issue). converting to 44800 sampling rate was bogus since then pulse
reported that file is too large... so with regular 22050 sampling pulse
says:

I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'trivial'
I: resampler.c: Using s16le as working format.
I: sink-input.c: Created input 1 "sample:ringtone" on output with sample spec s16le 2ch 22050Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'trivial'
I: resampler.c: Using s16le as working format.
I: sink-input.c: Created input 2 "sample:ringtone" on output with sample spec s16le 2ch 22050Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'trivial'
I: resampler.c: Using s16le as working format.
I: sink-input.c: Created input 3 "sample:ringtone" on output with sample spec s16le 2ch 22050Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: sink-input.c: Freeing output 1 "sample:ringtone"
I: sink-input.c: Freeing output 2 "sample:ringtone"
I: sink-input.c: Freeing output 3 "sample:ringtone"


does any one have a clue "why"?

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

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> So I did a blind copy of my ringtone (you can sample it from 
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/v_mir_jiv.wav) by copying over
> /usr/share/openmoko/sounds/ringtone_classy.wav
> which is
> RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 22050 Hz

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> whenever original was
> RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz

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> after reboot it plays but incorrectly, it stutter, and even sounds like
> multiple instances playing simultaneously.  So, I wonder what is the
> reason -- is that a feature or a bug

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> I am running 2008.2 from yesteday
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