Under Gnome, the esound breaks for sound samples

[JonB]

Using Gnome 2.18, configuring "system sounds" from "sound preferences", an error of "sample too large" is issued when testing a large sound file.

I am using the borealis sound set with Dropline Gnome and the login sound is 17 seconds long. When this is "played" under the "Sound" tab of "Sound Preferences" the problem occurs. ESD sound under Gnome is then no longer issued until a restart of Gnome.

However, these sound files do work with PulseAudio under normal circumstances. E.g. If you select a big sound file for login, the login sound will play when starting Gnome just fine. It just won't play under "test" in the "Sound Preferences" utility for Gnome.

Hope that makes sense.

[ossman]

This is a GNOME bug. Basically, it asks us to cache a sample and we tell it that it's too big. GNOME should fall back to playing the sound directly.

(It works in esd because it has no limits and will happily consume all memory available on the machine.)