Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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Playing a remote movie on the remote computer
I have two computers (a desktop and a laptop) running linux connected to my local area network. I like to ssh from my laptop over to my desktop and run programs there, and sometimes listen to music on ...
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Linux newbie: How do I use Jack? How does Linux sound work? [closed]
I am a Linux newbie. I know my way around the command-line enough to where it doesn't get in the way of my day job (I develop web applications in Python). This involves some piping, grep, awk, and ...
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1answer
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How can i find the correct name using aplay, or pacmd or something else for my microphone and sound out put, to apply in asound.conf?
I need to write a deafult mic and default speakeroutput in the asound conf file. But i dont know exactly how do i find my external sound card or microphone devices name? So that on reboot or ...
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Java application locks up after playing sound
Our Java application plays short notification sounds periodically (in response to user actions). On some hardward, our application will lock up after the 3rd or 4th short sound. We have to pkill java ...
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Single key audio capture in Linux (save on key release)
I'd like to run a program that records audio only when the Right Control key is held down. On keyboard release the result would write to disk as, e.g. yy-mm-dd hh:mm.ogg. How might I do that?
$ ...
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Command line audio player that exits immediately after file finished playing back?
I am experimenting with audio players in the command line, and noticed something weird: if the sound is very short, most players will take up to a second or two after playback has finished, before ...
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Starting jackd after using other audio
I know this is probably a common question.
When I start jackd after first booting, everything works fine.
If I use another audio (such as Banshee or Youtube, etc) jack won't start.
From what I ...
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1answer
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Change sampling rate in ALSA
I'm a Computer Audiophile, I've used Windows (with ASIO4ALL)and OSX for Audio. Now I'm making Ubuntu 13 my HTPC/Stereo Audio. To begin with I disabled Pulse audio and using GooMusicplayer with ALSA.
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Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 - crackling sound
I am very new user to the Linux world. I istalled newest Ubuntu on my old ASUS A7CC laptop. I would like to use also my older external sound interface Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1. I am able to ...
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VLC - gapless cue support
Most of my music is ripped flac's with cue's. I listen to albums with cue mainly because of last.fm scrobbling, but I want the same experience of gapless playback as listening to whole flac using VLC ...
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Choppy sound with flashpayer
After a number of updates, including upgrading to flashplayer 11 and kernel 3.8.2 sound from flashplayer and skype has become choppy.
Setup
In my setup I have .ascoundrc set up to use pulseaudio ...
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Sending to two bluetooth speakers at once
Is it possible to send the same audio signal to two different Bluetooth speakers at once from a single source?
I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to send audio to two different sinks ...
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Channeling audio
I am trying to get an audio setup that looks like:
INPUTS:
1 stream from mpg123 (CLI MP3 player)
1 Microphone Input
OUTPUT:
1 stream going to Jitsi (Jabber w/ voice) to be broadcast.
1 connection to ...
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Unexpectedly lost speaker output. Headphone output works fine
Yesterday when I opened my laptop I noticed that I no longer had sound from the built-in speakers. I carefully checked settings in Sound Preferences, and then dropped to shell and looked in ...
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1answer
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Library for audio effects and modulation?
I'm building a site which will have multiple audio lectures uploaded, as it's mainly a feed for a certain person's lectures.
What's annoying is that there are many things which can go wrong during ...
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How to make CD-quality WAV files using avconv?
I want to make a CD using the audio tracks of some video clips. I was thinking of using avconv to convert the files. As far as the other steps go, I found some instructions on the Arch Wiki. This is ...
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Why does Arch Linux keep Windows headphone mute
I have an Windows 7 installed, and headphones works perfectly.
Few days ago, I have Arch Linux installed along with Win7.
headphone works fine under Arch Linux
but
When I turned to Win7 from ...
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Audio through DisplayPort on Dell XPS 13 L322x (Intel GMA 4000)
I have the recently released Dell XPS 13 (L322x) and have successfully installed Linux Mint 14 alongside the pre-installed Windows 8. When connecting and external monitor using a DisplayPort to HDMI ...
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Backtrack mp3 problem
I've installed Backtrack but I can't figure out how to play mp3files. I've installed ubuntu-restricted-extras,lame, libmp3lame but still won't work(I have Rhythmbox player, I've also tried Amarok). ...
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Sound messed up in Starcraft. What's the deal?
I'm trying to run Starcraft through Wine. The sound is all distorted, as if it were playing underwater. Then, about 10 minutes into the game the sound is perfect for 1-2 seconds. Then, there's no ...
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Allow audio from only one application
I'd like to only allow audio from a certain application. That is, I'd like to have audio turned off by default for new programs.
I'm aware that in PulseAudio one can mute programs, but the problem ...
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How to configure buildroot to add a sound device?
I've used a given board configuration to reconfigure it for my individual board. My board has a CS4270 sound device of Cirrus Logic. My uImage is booting successfully on my target hardware, but an ...
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Playing sound in a user X session
I am running Linux Mint 14 and can play sound when I start my x session through mdm. however, when I start my X session using startx in user space, I am unable to get any sound play.
What could be ...
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Change PulseAudio Input/Output from Shell?
I have a set of nice wireless headphones which I use from time to time, in addition to my speakers and normal microphone.
I'd like to write a script to switch between one input and output source and ...
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problem with alsa installed
I'm using linux for the first time. I installed alsa 1.0.24 in my system running Ubuntu 12.04. After installing, I tried to play some files using command aplay -vv abc.wav, it started playing but I ...
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ffmpeg conversion from wma to ogg does not work
I'm trying to convert wma to ogg, using ffmpeg. However, both using the vorbis or libvorbis encoder (not sure which one I should use), this fails. Using arch linux.
ffmpeg -i test.wma -acodec vorbis ...
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How to setup an audio/sound output monitor/listener?
I am working with an Arduino and am trying to get it to respond to sound when it is played on my computer. I'm communicating with it over a serial port.
I need to know if there are any audio/sound ...
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1answer
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sox segmentation fault
My attempt to record sound with sox on Raspberry PI fails:
pi@raspberrypi ~/tmp $ rec new.wav
Segmentation fault
And so does play:
pi@raspberrypi ~/tmp $ play test.wav
Segmentation fault
Yet it ...
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convert arecord output to flac
I'm trying to convert arecord wav output to flac and it does work in part:
pi@raspberrypi /tmp $ arecord -d4 -f dat -t wav -r 48000 -c 2 |flac -f -o message.flac - --channels=1 --sample-rate=16000
...
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1answer
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volume hot keys in Crunchbang don't work
I've spent 2 hours on this and still can't figure this out. It's driving me insane. Please save my sanity.
When I press mute, the pnmixer control in the top right shows that I've pressed mute, but ...
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Losing sound after installing wine 1.5 (+python 2.7)?
I have a desktop and a laptop computer. Since I wanted to run IrfanView (that works great now!), I installed wine 1.5.22, which involved installing 1 GB of dependencies. The desktop continues to work ...
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How can I switch between different audio output hardware using the shell?
I use my laptop with an external monitor which has speakers. When the monitor is attached through HDMI I can switch (using the GUI: Sound Setting --> Hardware) between the normal laptop audio output ...
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Sound not working when both the sound card and HDMI use the Intel HDA driver. How to exchange their device loading order?
I have an Acer Aspire One 522 netbook which has an Intel HDA sound card based on the Conexant CX20584 chipset. Although KDE does output sound when starting up, flash and probably many other apps which ...
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Making a Linux audio recording device available on a Windows 7 PC over network
I would like to use my headset's microphone both on my Linux laptop and a Windows 7 PC simultaneously, for different VoIP applications. I'm currently running Ubuntu with PulseAudio on the laptop to ...
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Configuring default alsa device (hw:0,0) in asoundrc
I am using a multimedia application (XBMC Frodo RC3) that does not allow me to select custom pcm device. It just asks the hardware device (in this case it is hw:0,0).
Given this limitation I have to ...
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Updated Fedora 18 - no sound devices, just dummy output
So, yesterday I updated the recently released Fedora 18, this has been done:
Packages Altered:
Updated grubby-8.20-1.fc18.x86_64 @?fedora
Update 8.22-1.fc18.x86_64 ...
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Testing, from a script, if audio devices are in silent?
Is there a default program where I can check if my audio devices are in silent?
Edit: By silence, I mean that if there is something playing on that (not just activated or opened)
Something like ...
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Alienware M14x - No sound in linux Mint 14 (Nadia)
I have done a fresh install of Linux Mint 14.1 x64 on my Alienware M14x. Everything was working fine after installed. Unfortunately the sound is lost after sometime. Theres no sound when playing video ...
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how to merge two audio input source using avconv
I try to make screencast using avconv and I facing a problem.
I finally succeed to record both pc output and microphone input , the problem is that they're not merged in the output file.
(I saw ...
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1answer
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Rip audio CDs while keeping extraction and encoding separate
I'd like to rip my audio CDs to mp3. I know this has been discussed to a good extent but I'm not sure if my setup makes sense, though. I want to use an older PC for that and I have read on the net ...
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Does SDL require any sound server like PulseAudio to play audio?
I'm trying to make an MP3 player on top of the Linux kernel and busybox using the SDL and SMPEG libraries.
Does SDL work on top of the kernel or it needs PulseAudio?
I have just built a C program ...
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Rhythmbox error while saving song information: Could not multiplex stream
I play a lot of .ra or .rm files in Rhythmbox. It plays fine but when I try to edit with the property box it says:
Error while saving song information
Could not multiplex stream.
But it works fine ...
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1answer
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No sound on Debian VM
I installed Debian+XFCE using VMware and this YouTube video.
Everything runs OK, but I have no sound in the VM. What's wrong?
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Mass ID3 tag editor like vorbistagedit?
My favorite tool for batch editing of vorbis comments is vorbistagedit. I can do vorbistagedit *.ogg and it lets me edit the metadata in all my ogg files at once in my favorite editor (emacs).
I'm ...
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Pulseaudio rapidly switches ouputs at high volumes
I'm using Pulseaudio. The image is of the Output Devices tab and shows the Port set to Analog Output. This is fine and works great. There's another option called Headphones but if you try and set the ...
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How do I fix a noisy input device (Internal Mic)? snd_hda_intel - debug included
As the title says, I'm having trouble with a very noisy audio input device - the internal mic or any plugged in mics.
So far I've narrowed it down to an problem in ALSA since my debug info is showing ...
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Realtek audio issues on OpenBSD 5.2
I am running OpenBSD/amd64 5.2 stable on a new machine, using a gigabyte motherboard with a realtek alc898 audio chipset. When I try to play any audio (sources include mpd, aucat, and cat > ...
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Batch conversion of Module files with XMP
I have the following script to convert a big bunch of .MOD and .XM files into Wave format:
#!/bin/bash
for f in ./XM.* ./MOD.*
do
xmp $f -d wav -o - | ffmpeg -i - -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k ...
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Sound events in Gnome 3
I've installed Gnome 3 yesterday. I use Gnome Shell.
There are no any sound when a window closes and no any sound when I switch windows.
Can sound be added (at least when I close a window)?
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Is there an easy way to switch playback soundcards?
I recently purchased the roccat kulo headset which comes with a nice USB soundcard, completely functional under linux :). Howsoever I now struggle to easily siwtch between my laptops integrated ...
