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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 ...
1
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1answer
33 views
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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1answer
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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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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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2answers
142 views
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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0answers
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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 ...
2
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0answers
38 views
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 ...
6
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2answers
285 views
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 ...
0
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0answers
51 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
362 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
183 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
114 views
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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1answer
86 views
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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1answer
278 views
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 ...
0
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0answers
250 views
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 ...
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4answers
2k views
My audio device not working
I have been setting up a new CrunchBang Linux and my sound doesn't work. When I type lspci -v command and alplay -l command in command prompt I can see that my sound card is connected and detected.
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0answers
415 views
Sound not working in Debian except in google chrome and test utilities
Yesterday, I had Archlinux on my Dell Latitude E6520 and the sound was working perfectly fine (I even had the loud beep I couldn't get rid of).
Today, I installed Debian and alsa. The first surprise ...
2
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4answers
476 views
Pipe system sound to another computer
I have no speakers in my PC (Cent-OS 5.5) but there is a stereo speaker connected to the computer next to my computer (also Cent-OS 5.5). Both computers are networked. Is there any way to pipe my ...
3
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1answer
294 views
Finding the current speaker volume (signal strength)
I'm trying to create a widget for awesome wm that controls and monitors volume.
Getting and setting the speaker volume is easy in ALSA and PulseAudio, but how about getting the actual signal ...
3
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1answer
921 views
Command line audio - piping for simultaneous playback and recording
I am trying to generate sound data, convert it and store it to a WAV format. I'm almost there - except I'd like to hear the generated sound "while" it is being "recorded".
This command line just ...
5
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1answer
294 views
ALSA dummy device - how to configure?
I am working on an audio stream between two virtual servers. For that, I have set up a dummy soundcard (as the vservers don't have a hw card) using modprobe snd-dummy.
That seems to work fine - I am ...
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1answer
480 views
No sound in USB headphones using fedora 16
The volume control buttons on the usb headphone work, they can increment or decrement the system sound.
However the headphone have no sound. How to make it work?
kernel 3.2, pusleaudio is used by ...
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1answer
3k views
How to check why sound over HDMI doesn't work
I installed Gentoo clean on my system, except my /home but I deleted all hidden folders that might have an impact on sound (.mplayer .pulse* .config .esd_auth and more) and with a fresh user adduser ...
2
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1answer
681 views
Recording audio output
I've been following these instructions for recording the output of a program I wrote (that uses rtaudio to synthesize music) ...
0
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2answers
350 views
What Linux distro is good for music and well supported?
I'm pretty disappointed with Ubuntu. It's never been easy to sort out the mess that is Alsa / Jack / whatever and have it work with Pd, Supercollider, Ardour, Lillypad.
I've upgraded to the latest ...
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0answers
612 views
How to make front audio jack work again after waking up from suspend?
Sometimes, after I wake up from suspend (using pm-suspend), the front audio jack stops working (no sound) after I wake up my laptop. Only after a full reboot I get it to work again.
My laptop is an ...
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2answers
653 views
How do I know if my microphone is mute or unmute when I have more than one microphone?
How do I find out if my microphone is muted or unmuted, when I have more than one microphone such as Motherboard, USB and HDMI?
1) I can't find it with this:
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [PCH ...
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0answers
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Why is this ALSA configuration file preventing aplay and arecord from listing PCM devices?
In my embedded system I have this configuration file in /etc/asound.conf:
pcm_slave.sl2 {
pcm "hw:0,0"
rate 48000
channels 2
format S16_LE
}
pcm.rate_convert {
...
4
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1answer
547 views
Samson Meteor Mic under Linux/ALSA
Has anybody gotten a Samson Meteor Mic working under Linux/ALSA?
I tried to google it but I found no mention of Samson Meteor under Linux at all.
Kernel/ALSA/Audacity see the device. Unfortunately I ...
3
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2answers
2k views
amixer - How to change recording channel?
So fat, I am setting up microphone settings :
$ amixer set 'Rear Mic' 90% mute cap
$ amixer set 'Rear Mic Boost' 80%
But, after some sys. update, my default recoding chanell changed to 'Front Mic' ...
5
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1answer
5k views
How to use command line to change volume?
I am trying to control the volume using my programming script. How can I do the following in Fedora 15, Ubuntu linux?
Mute/ Unmute
Volume up and volume down
Note: Please note that I use a web USB ...
2
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1answer
173 views
Renaming alsa controls
Is it possible to rename alsa controls?
My front panel is controlled using "Speaker" and my the back plugs are "PCM". Since this isn't very descriptive I would like to rename them to something more ...
4
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1answer
389 views
How to get Debian's volume control working with Pulse
I finally configured Pulse to work with every application, however using the volume control on my keyboard still controls the default ALSA selected device. How do I change it so it adjusts the current ...
4
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1answer
487 views
Saving alsa settings
After a new update, there is no sound by default in my Debian Squeeze box until running alsactl init, but whenever rebooting the computer I have to run the command again to gain sound.
How can I ...
5
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1answer
882 views
Changing default audio device in Pulseaudio
I would like to use HDMI on my graphic card for audio output. ALSA shows it as a card with 4 devices and I can get sound through one of them (the other three are different channels, perhaps? I have ...
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3answers
5k views
Generating random noise for fun in /dev/snd/
Recently I have been exploring the enchanted /dev folder. I want to write some random data to an audio device in order to generate some noise.
I am using ALSA.
So I instruct cat to pipe some random ...
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alsa and 5.1 surround through three front stereo jacks on the Dell Studio XPS 13
I know this is not a tech support forum, but I am not etting an answer from alsa people and have tried much, if not everything.
I can upload the alsa-info output if needed, but here is the info ...
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2answers
2k views
“lsmod |grep audio” doesn't return anything?
I am running Debian Squeeze. I installed and removed Gnome3 and reinstalled Gnome2.x (epic fail and stupidity) and in the process I have lost audio, lspci returns following
# lspci | grep Audio
...
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2answers
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No sound when attached to docking station
I have been using Linux and Ubuntu only since the last two months on my (2006) Sony Vaio VGN A617S laptop which is going pretty well on Ubuntu 10.10. When installing Ubuntu audio did get installed ...
3
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1answer
965 views
5.1 speakers on soundblaster x-fi 'extreme audio'
The rear and center channels on my 5.1 speakers don't work.
I've checked the connections a few time, and turned up volume sliders in alsamixer
“System information” in alsamixer correctly identifies ...
6
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1answer
2k views
Can someone diagnose this JACK error message?
OK. I start JACK without starting the JACK server. I get:
23:09:22.730 Patchbay deactivated.
23:09:22.765 Statistics reset.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot ...
5
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2answers
643 views
Microphone always picks up sound and routes it to speakers
I've started running into a kind of strange problem on my laptop, and Google hasn't proved to be very helpful so far.
Essentially, at seemingly random times, my microphone will start sending output ...
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1answer
217 views
Easy way to use hardware mixing?
My sound card supports hardware mixing. What's the easiest way to use this feature (rather than on an app-by-app basis, hopefully)?
2
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1answer
330 views
Sometimes no sound in flash videos after boot?
Sometimes after I boot up the machine, I get no sound in flash videos. First I didn't know why it was happening, but as I read a few articles here and there, I found out it was because of my USB ...
