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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Mono playing reverse stereo audio is completely muted

Project Member Reported by warx@chromium.org, Mar 29 2016

Issue description

Version: 51.0.2693.0
OS: Platform 8111.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel veyron_jerry test

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Switch to mono mode, to manually start it is
"dbus-send --system  --type=method_call  --print-reply
--dest=org.chromium.cras /org/chromium/cras
org.chromium.cras.Control.SetGlobalOutputChannelRemix int32:2
array:double:0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5"
(2) Playing a reverse stereo audio in the attachment, it is completely muted.

Reference: http://www.audiocourses.com/2012/02/10/mono-compatibility-and-phase-cancellation/

 
cancel.wav
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Comment 1 by hychao@chromium.org, Mar 30 2016

Interesting. So what is the expected behavior to handle mixing on this kind of audio?

Comment 2 by warx@chromium.org, Mar 30 2016

I am curious is there a way to do phase alignment firstly before mixing?

Comment 3 by warx@chromium.org, May 9 2016

Cc: warx@chromium.org tbuck...@chromium.org
 Issue 610486  has been merged into this issue.
Components: Internals>Media>Audio
Owner: dalecur...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Owner: ----
Status: Available (was: Assigned)
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Comment 7 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 10

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Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
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Comment 8 by dbbrooks@chromium.org, Yesterday (36 hours ago)

Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
warx@, if possible, could you confirm whether this issue has been addressed? Thanks.

Comment 9 by solenberg@chromium.org, Yesterday (26 hours ago)

I suggest this is closed as Won't Fix.

I can't think of a situation when this is a practical problem. As indicated by the link in the bug description, for sound engineers it is pretty much "Mixing 101" to mono-check their work before distribution, as all manner of things can happen at the playback side.

Stereo as well as surround material utilise phase differences and inter-channel delays to produce spacious sounding audio. If we were to apply processing to align phases, those effects would to some extent be cancelled (and we'd introduce other artefacts too).

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