thats pretty odd, i would expect 32000 to fail more than 44100 which is the industry standard. It just sounds like bad alsa drivers to me. You have to let the user decide i suppose.

FMOD Ex has a rewritten linux driver, have you tried that?

My program doesnt just have an end user and stop there, each of those end users have end users, so if I let my end user choose, they would end up in the same situation that I am in. They would have to let their users choose as well, which just adds extra headache and voids he KISS rule.

I havent tried FMOD Ex yet, the shareware-ish license, does that extend to FMOD Ex or is it just FMOD 3? Is the Ex code much different?

I just sent out a new beta version of my app to be tested using 44100 and will see what my results are.

why not try all frequencies, for example my startup code

[code:mq8mhf1u]
int tryfreq[] = {customFreqHz, 44100, 48000, 32000, 22050};
int numfreq = sizeof(tryfreq)/sizeof(int);

    BOOL bret = FALSE;

    while(curfreq < numfreq)
    {
        int retries = 2;
        int retrycount = 0;

        PROTECT_ON;
        bret = FSOUND_Init(tryfreq[curfreq], numChannles, 0);
        PROTECT_OFF("");

        while(bret == FALSE && retrycount < retries)
        {
            Sleep(100);
            PROTECT_ON;
            bret = FSOUND_Init(tryfreq[curfreq], numChannles, 0);
            PROTECT_OFF("");
            retrycount++;
        }

        if(retrycount < retries)
            break;

        curfreq++;
    }

[/code:mq8mhf1u]

Because when it fails it doesnt error! It just wont play the sound and stalls when I try and close everything out. Very odd.

Not to bump up an old topic, but this problem still plagues me and my end users, to the point where only a small percentage can actually hear music.

Code like that posted above, doesnt help at all because even when I use a freq with FSOUND_Init that my PC doesnt like, FSOUND_Init gives a "success" code, no errors.

I believe this is a major bug in fmods ALSA implementation.

Note that I get the same behavior in the examples, and have multiple PCs that I test on, with the same results.

Is bret still making bug fixes to FMOD3 or am I SOL?

[quote:1tn42hqv]FMOD Ex has a rewritten linux driver, have you tried that?[/quote:1tn42hqv]

FMOD Ex has a worse problem that makes it unusable for me so thats not a viable solution.