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To everyone trying to use an EeePC as a mp3 player. <BR>
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I had a problem with stuttering sound on my 900 - every twenty seconds or so there would be an interruption to the sound stream. With a bit of trial and error I worked out that it was only occurring when running on battery. I use Exaile as my music player, but Rhythmbox had the same issue.<BR>
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The solution appears to be to install the Enlightenment Sound daemon and gstreamer-esd. The restart and go to System -> Preferences -> Sound and set everything to Enlightenment.<BR>
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Now the sound plays smoothly in all instances. I have an Apacer 16gb SDHC permanently in the SD slot that has about 12gb of music and Exaile works beautifully. I did the BIOS update for the 900 that fixes issues with some SDHC cards. The EeePC is attached to my car sound system via the headphone jack and it is configured so that when the lid is closed it turns off the screen, but does not shut down.<BR>
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enjoy<BR>
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Greg Eden<BR>
grege@melbpc.org.au<BR>
Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
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