replaced ringtone but it plays it really funny way

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

ah... probably now dialer is 'configured' to assume that ringtone is
just a second or so... thus every other second (if call is not dropped
yet) it sends a new notification to pulse to play the ring tone. ho ho

so there is no native way seems to me to 

* provide natively long ringtone (at least 5 sec)

* interrupt 'active' ringtone if it is already playing, which limits us
  just to short ringtones, initiated every X seconds from the dialer.

I haven't tried ASU to that amount of detail but is it doing the same??

looking at openmoko-dialer2/./src/phone-kit/moko-notify.c all logic
seems to be there right actually (I am not sure if that is ASU's or
2008.2's dialer now... can't think straight now), so it might simply be
a bug? btw - music doesn't stop for me even if I interrupt the call,
thus I guess pulse doesn't get any 'interrupt' notifications



On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> 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:

> > 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

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

> > 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

> > I am running 2008.2 from yesteday
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