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[Timo Aaltonen <1923841@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kai-Heng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted alsa-utils into focal-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-
utils/1.2.2-1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Title:
  [SRU] Increase recording quality

Status in HWE Next:
  New
Status in alsa-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in alsa-utils source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Audio gets recorded by "arecord" has really bad sound quality when the volume is low.

  [Fix]
  https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/pull/69
  Switch the default audio format from 8 bits to 16 bits if hardware supports it.

  [Test]
  1. Plug a microphone.
  2. Run `arecord | aplay` and say something to the microphone.
  3. Only noise can be heard.

  With the fix applied, the recording is clear.

  [Where problems could occur]
  If there's any hardware falsely advertised to support 16 bits, this change will break them.
  However, this is effectively using `arecord -f cd` or `arecord -f cdr`, so that's not likely.

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