Most on that thread have reported good results with that fix... someone was even talking about developing a toggle to turn stagefright on/off.
You got me... I read the same thread as you, and all I know is setting "media.stagefright.enable-http=true" to "false" in the system/build.prop file seems to fix the problem. It sounds like there might be some minor side effects, but mostly good results... might be worth a try until this is fixed permanently.
No offense meant and perhaps I just have poor reading comprehension 
, but since this is the appropriate thread for it....
Open Astro and go to the root dir then /system than long press prop.build file. Select open as then text edit. Scroll down.
If you see
media.stagefright.enable-player=false
or
media.stagefirght.enble-http=false
Yep, that's it. I remembered it was somewhere easy!Thanks, sranger.
Welp... my stagefright is enabled. No idea why, but I just don't have the issue.
There is some discussion as to which modification is better.....
P.S. I figured out you can edit the file with Root Explorer....
Yep, that's it. I figured it was someplace easy but hadn't started digging yet. Thanks, sranger
Welp... my stagefright is enabled. There you have it. No idea why my phone doesn't present the issue, but everything works as expected. I read all the google code issue page and retried the test files again since so many are having the problem. I guess I'll just consider myself lucky and hope the issue gets resolved quickly for those that are affected.
Professional musician here (among other things), so if I get a chance, I'll try to drop by one of the studios I work with and run it on their equipment. The problem as described ought to immediately jump out on anything but the Droid's own speakers though. Can't recreate it here.
I wasn't planning on joining in here since my response to this issue in another thread caused an OT rant
I'm running p3droid's frg22 from: MyDroidWorld At It Again: Exclusive new Droid OS Release - FRG22 Fastest ROM Yet Absolutely zero problems with audio quality when streaming Pandora (or using the AAC+ and eAAC+ test files from the google code issue page linked earlier).
When I first installed it the google voice search wasn't working, so I downloaded again and reinstalled and it had been fixed (or it just didn't install well originally). Whether or not that was the only fix, I don't know. I was lazy and didn't wipe but that shouldn't make any difference. I went from basically stock rooted 2.1 to 2.2.
Usually, if it's an audio decoding problem, the music is obviously and painfully wrong. I'm baffled why my Droid has no issue when so many others do, but there you have it. Did more testing last night, and I'm absolutely unable to recreate the issue. If you're just hearing flat sound, equalization and virtual sound fields can minimize it, but it should still be obviously different from a file without the issue.
Maybe I should check to see if stagefright is enabled.. any quick way to do that?
Yep, that's it. I figured it was someplace easy but hadn't started digging yet. Thanks, sranger
Welp... my stagefright is enabled. There you have it. No idea why my phone doesn't present the issue, but everything works as expected. I read all the google code issue page and retried the test files again since so many are having the problem. I guess I'll just consider myself lucky and hope the issue gets resolved quickly for those that are affected.
Professional musician here (among other things), so if I get a chance, I'll try to drop by one of the studios I work with and run it on their equipment. The problem as described ought to immediately jump out on anything but the Droid's own speakers though. Can't recreate it here.
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