Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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End sox recording once silence is detected
I'm writing a script that uses sox to record me talking.
Now I need sox to wait until it detects sound before it begins recording, and I do have that figured out. But I also need sox to exit once ...
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Packages needed to get sound working
I just installed Ubuntu Server 12.10. I am using openbox and startx for my gui session. I decided not to post in the Ubuntu forum because I felt this issue might be relevant to other distros as well, ...
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576 views
Set default sound card in Pulse Audio
I have two soundcards on my systems and pulseaudio always picks the wrong one. How do I set up the default soundcard in the pulse audio preferences?
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Set default Soundcard Centos
How do I set my default soundcard on Centos/Linux? I have two soundcards installed on my system and it always detects the wrong one, upon boot.
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Consistent (physical) volume on set of files (volume normalization)
If I have, say, 20 music videos (.flv and .mp4), is there a way to play them in mplayer (mplayer2) without having to change the volume for each video, instead specifying a desired general volume, and ...
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No volume control in Nexuiz fullscreen mode
While playing Nexuiz on my Ubuntu in full screen mode the volume control buttons on my laptop don't work at all, externally after minimizing the game increasing/decreasing the sound solves the problem ...
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Using OGG/Vorbis, is there a way to continue to record to an existing audio file?
I am using Vorbis/ogg to record audio (using arecord and then pipping to oggenc). I have downloaded oggvideotools, which gave me oggCat, which will let me join two previously recorded audio files into ...
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No Audio Output with X11
I have a queer issue with my Arch-Linux System.
I am unable to get any Sound Output when playing audio, AFTER starting X Server.
The issue is not with Volume Controls or Sound Card Drivers because, ...
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How can I view and play shared audio files through a network?
I've come up with a quick pet project (which might, maybe, even end up being useful at my home someday); the idea is to allow users of a Linux device (I'll call it A, and it'll probably be a small ...
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No network in slackware
I have just installed Slackware. I am not new to Linux but new to Slackware.
I wonder how to install network in it.
After the Slackware installation, audio and network were not working.
This is ...
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Search MP3/Ogg files by tags/parameters from the command line
Is there any utility to search MP3/Ogg files by tags (or other characteristics) from the command line? (e.g. finding all audio files longer than 10 minutes with genre set to 'Rock').
I found this, ...
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1answer
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What could be causing this weird buzzing when using my usb headset for 48khz audio?
I have a Logitech USB headset ( I think it's a H330, but I don't remember the model number right). Occasionally, on Linux there would be a loud buzzing noise in the right ear that was many times ...
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No sound on speakers, headphones ok
My Laptop (Dell Vostro 3300) internal speaker (yes, it's mono) is mute already for some time, and I was just patient with this problem, because the sound quality is ridiculous anyway and I always used ...
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1answer
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Play sound when connecting to network
I thought it would be fun to play a sound when connecting to a network of some sort (wireless or otherwise), kind of like the dial-up sounds of yesteryear.
EDIT: Clarification: when connecting to the ...
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1answer
477 views
Is it possible the get the original (best) audio quality when using avconv?
In Feb 2011 I had a similar question: ffmpeg and libmp3lame produces bad audio quality?
Now I'd like to know if it is possible to the get the original audio quality from a (flash) video? Every time I ...
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1answer
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Unable to control audio volume in BackTrack5 R2
I have Backtrack5 R2, one of the several problems I have is the audio works but I cannot control the volume, it is always the same and it's very annoying.
What can I do to fix this?
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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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Convert audio to text
I heard about existence of some speech recognition systems, and it seems I need one of those. Basically, I have an audio file with speech (only one person is speaking most of the time), and I want to ...
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1answer
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Fn+F2 does not UNMUTE
I am using Lubuntu 11.10 (original, not Ubuntu + LXDE) on a Vaio VPCEG series. After install of some network manager, my key Fn+F2 got a different function.
It's printed on it the blue symbol for ...
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USB audio only outputs white noise
I am running OpenBSD/i386 5.1 on a 5 year old laptop. The speakers and headphone port work, but the headphone port is a little loose so I am trying to install an external USB sound card (Fiio E17 USB ...
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use pacmd to undo these changes to pulseaudio sink settings
Recently I discovered this question and answer on askubuntu.com which, while useful, also rendered my sound system unusable for practical purposes.
The commands
pactl load-module module-null-sink ...
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1answer
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pipe the output of parec to sox
sox is probably the one linux program that continues to frustrate me. At the same time, I am awed by what it can do, and I'd like to get close to being fluent in it, if not mastering it.
Today, I've ...
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Indicate mute/unmute with i3status
Is there a way to indicate if the sound is set to mute or not using i3status? I know how to show the volume (as explained in man i3status), but it doesn't distinguish between mute or just 0% volume.
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Is there a checklist for getting the “beep” program to work?
Debian has a program called "beep" available, that lets you make the computer beep at whatever frequency or time you want. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/beep
The problem that many people seem to ...
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Audio quality issues with mpd
I have been using mpd for a long time now and absolutely love it.
However, I recently added a few video files to the mpd database. Now I understand mpd won't play the video files, I don't want it to.
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How can I make Debian with KDE louder?
I am running KDE in Debian Testing and I just noticed that the system is really quiet. This is my office laptop, so to be honest I turned the sound on for the first time since I got it 2 years ago.
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Possible to configure Login TTY over Audio device (Morse code or similar)?
One of the most miserable aspects of my day job is the need to occasionally investigate problems with machines scattered in remote locations all over the world that don't have network access to the ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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Getting sound working on Linux mint 13 Mate
I have just installed linux mint 13 and I haven't used linux before so I apologise upfront if this question seems basic. I am unable to hear any form of audio on file which I try to play in any ...
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Open-Source Audio Playlist 'Standard'
I know there are quite a few types of audio/music playlists out in the wild. Are there any that are specifically approved as FLOSS? That is, are there are that are particularly encouraged by the ...
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How do I enable sound in Fedora 17?
I did a minimal install of Fedora 17 some months ago and only until today did I try playing some audio with it only to find out that sound is not working.
How do I get the sound to work on Fedora 17?
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4answers
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system volume is changed when vlc volume is increased over 100%
When I increase my vlc sound more than 100% and after stoping or pausing vlc if I use clementine to play music the volume is same as vlc, i.e, more than 100% but in the indicator it shows whatever the ...
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How do I get sound to work outside lightdm
If for whatever reason I sudo stop lightdm running on mint and just use a simple xinit session with mutter, is there some way I can get sound to work? Whenever I do that, it seems there's no sound.
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Using Creative Sound Blaster on Ubuntu Server
I just got a Creative Sound Blaster for playing audio wirelessly. I connected it to a virtual version of Ubuntu desktop and just had to go into the sound settings and switch it to the USB and the ...
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1answer
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ubuntu usb sound card sometimes recognized and sometimes not at boot
I have a linux ubuntu 12.04 server machine which works with an usb sound card.
When rebooting the machine, sometimes the usb sound card is recognized and sometimes not, I cannot figure out a reason ...
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Disable KDE system sounds
How to disable KDE system sounds? I mean all sounds on startup, on dialog box popup, on error and so on, without turning off the actual media sound.
I use KDE 4.7.4
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mp3 extraction with avconv or ffmpeg doesn't work properly anymore
Before upgrade to the latest Ubuntu I used the following command to extract mp3 from an avi file:
$ for x in *.avi; do ffmpeg -vol 100 -ab 160k -ar 44100 -i "$x" "`basename "$x" .avi`.mp3"; done
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Web browser hooked pulseaudio sound, how to release?
It seems that Chrome (and its Flash component) has grabbed all the audio on the machine for itself, leaving no sound for any other applications. I am running KDE with PulseAudio. Is there a way in ...
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Tmux makes a sound when I launch it, how could I disable that?
When I launch tmux in the terminal, is causes my Linux Mint to play a sound in the speakers.
The sound is a Linux Mint system sound. Perhaps it's the "alert" sound, but I cannot identify it by name.
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To which audio format can I convert aac lost-free with ffmpeg?
Since I did not manage to get the audio work with
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy out.avi
I'm searching for an audio format to which I can convert aac lost-free.
Does such an ...
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ffmpeg: problems when copying the audio
When I run this ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -codec copy video.avi I get a broken audio: a crackling like a stuck LP. The input-audio is aac
When I re-encode the audio like this ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -codec:v:0 ...
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2answers
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Where can I find the Linux driver for headphones in the kernel tree?
I have headphones with three buttons on them which allow me to control my music player with my phone. I want to write a driver for my headphones to make it control my music player on my pc (Ubuntu ...
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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 ...
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Restricting sound control
I need to restrict users so that they cannot output sound from built-in speakers. They should plug their headphones to hear any sound. They should be able to control headphone volume level, but not ...
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Macbook pro 8,1 skype audio
I cannot seem to get skype to use my microphone on this macbook pro 8,1.
I've used alsamixer to set all speaker/mic setting to unmute with max volume, nothing. (although when I set the "digital" ...
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How to burn mp3 files to an audio CD under Scientific-Linux 6.1?
It should be an easy thing.. but a strange thing happened when I tried in Brasero:
"XXX.mpg is not suitable for audio or video media"
I had the same problem with K3B.
What package did I forget to ...
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1answer
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Pulseaudio, Phonon, KDE and forwarding sound to headset
Some days ago I bought headet (Jabra BT2045) and I want to use it in Skype voicechat and for example to forward to it another sound streams from my KDE.
I've successfully paired and setup as headset ...
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How to encode huge FLAC files into MP3 and other files like AAC?
My problem is very long recordings, longer than supported by WAV. I'm talking about continuous recordings of around eight hours in length.
Now, I do most of my recording using sox into FLAC, which ...
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Is it possible to redirect system-beeps to the normal audio?
When I run this script I don't here any beeps - I suppose it is because there is no speaker attached to the mainboard.
Is there a way to redirect this beeps to the "normal" audio?
#!/usr/bin/env perl
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command line audio with mpg123 - how to save position in audio and begin from that location next time?
I am contemplating using mpg123 as an audiobook player. I can't find any other good audiobook players for Linux, and I think mpg123 may be my best option.
My audiobooks are organized by directories ...
