Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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Volume on Linux much lower than on Windows
I dualboot Slackware64 and Windows 7.
The volume under Linux when maxed seems a lot lower than when it is maxed on Windows.
My soundcard chip is Realtek ALC662. Volume is set to 100% for PCM and ...
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How to grab the audio channel from an MP4 video file into a separate audio file?
Having an MPEG4 (MP4 container, H264 AVC video, AAC audio) video clip downloaded from YouTube, how to separate its audio channel into an independent audio (without de&re-compressing the audio ...
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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 ...
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No sound with fresh Kubuntu install
I've just taken the plunge and installed Kubuntu as my main desktop env but I can't get the sound to work, and was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to help me work out what the problem is.
I ...
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How do I prevent a program from playing sound?
I have a program which does not have an option to disable sound. I could mute the computer globally, but there are other programs for which I do want sound.
Is there any way to locally disable sound?
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Activating Audio System in Arch Linux
I wanted to get the audio system going on Arch Linux, and I followed the very concise instruction I found on Archlinux.org, but it didn't help.
Has anyone done this personally, therefore knowing the ...
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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 ...
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playing a sound/notification in finch over ssh on my local machine
So I have finch, a command line chat client (think pidgin) running on a remote machine that I ssh into. finch has notification sounds and can run a command when certain events occur, letting you pass ...
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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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Set volume from terminal
Is it possible to set the audio volume using the terminal?, instead of clicking the speaker icon in the topbar, the reason I want need to do this is because my keyboard does not have a volume ...
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Have working headphone controller under Linux?
I have headphones with a controller (+/- volume, play/pause). They work when using an iPad. My question is if it's possible to make it work under Fedora 16 (using GNOME 3)?
I assume some drivers ...
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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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FreeBSD 9 Sound Driver
I installed FreeBSD 9. I'm trying to make a sound to work but no luck.
My Sound Card: Realtek ALC898
Can someone help me how to make it to work (I'm creating custom kernel)?
Base on FreeBSD ...
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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 ...
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How do I display the name of my audio card driver from the command line in Lubuntu 11.10?
I am running Lubuntu 11.10 and I want to display my Audio / Sound Card Driver from the command line.
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G722 in gstreamer is not available or its need to be activated? How do i do that?
Gstreamer how to use G.722 enc and dec? Is this not available or missing in there implementation?
$ gst-inspect | grep ffmpeg
ffmpeg: ffaudioresample: FFMPEG Audio resampling element
ffmpeg: ...
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Sound volume control does not work in Ubuntu
My sound volume control does not work when I'm logged in with my regular user, though the sound works correctly. What's weirder is that the sound control works when I'm logged in as guest.
With my ...
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Linux support for RTP-MIDI?
I have been spoiled by the ease with which I can connect my iPad up to MIDI applications on my Macbook using the native support for midi-over-the-network (apparently RTP-MIDI) provided by the CoreMIDI ...
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Recording audio output
I've been following these instructions for recording the output of a program I wrote (that uses rtaudio to synthesize music) ...
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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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pulseaudio suddenly stopped working?
I am using arch linux and i was using pulseaudio suddenly today pulseaudio stopped working and no sound is coming in both my speaker and headphone. I can see pulseaudio is running properly and I am ...
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How to demux audio and know what type it is?
How to demuxed audio and know what type it is?
When muxing an audio into a video, ffmpeg, mencoder, etc require to know what the audio's encoding is. The encoder typically uses the file name's ...
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gnome 3 system sounds not working
On my System (Debian Wheezy x64, Gnome 3) I don't have any system sounds. Other audio is working well.
When I go to settings > Audio > Sounds (hope it is called like this in english) as normal user, ...
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Music Server for WLAN-Speakers
There are several systems with WLAN-Speakers for sale. Most of them consist of several Boxes with WLAN-Recievers and a WLAN-Router/Storage-Device to spread the
sound information. The WLAN-Speakers ...
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How do I run Gnome 3 sound control from KDE?
Skype is using pulse audio, which is part of Gnome and the main place I found to configure microphones was in the standard Gnome sound control.
How can I configure the microphones from KDE?
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Applying an IO redirection&audio device example in Fedora
Here is an example I saw in a webpage which uses IO redirection to make the audio device make sound.
less sound.wav > /dev/audio
But I cannot do it in Fedora. It outputs the input data format is ...
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No sound with Mint 12 and Realtek ALC892
Installed Mint 11 last week and I've got no sound. I've read around, went through the trouble shooters. Poked and prodded. Still no sound. It worked right out of the install with this hard ware in ...
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Extract pitch information from audio file
Is there a command-line utility which would allow me to extract pitch information from an audio file and store it in a numerical form (i.e. as a list of comma-separated values)?
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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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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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Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome shell - suspend wake up sound
I would like to be able to enable some sound file to play whenever I suspend and wake up my netbook (MSI Wind u100) but I can't found a way to do this in gnome shell.
I'm using PinguyOS 11.10, which ...
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What and how is the encoding of a raw (headerless) audio file?
I have done this:
me@riverbrain:~/sgf$ echo "test" | text2wave -otype raw -F 16000 >> test.raw
which produced a headerless audio file. The wonderful thing about this file is that it can be ...
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Detecting headphone connection/disconnection in Linux
I am trying to detect a signal when a headphone is connected or disconnected from the system.
What is the best way to do this?
If there is a special board with drivers, that will be my preferred ...
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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 {
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How to remotely turn “up” sounds?
So I have to Skype with someone, but he is not...well let's just say not a "geek", so I have to log in via SSH to his Fedora machine, and turn on sound [because he can't hear me when using Skype, but ...
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VLC surround to stereo problem
I noticed a problem with certain video files where speech volume component is just too low. I googled a bit and it seems that the problem is that it tries to play surround sound on stereo speakers and ...
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Speakers make popping sound when on battery power. What should I do?
I am running Linux Mint 11 on my notebook, which is basically a variation of Ubuntu. I have been hearing a popping noise in the speakers ever since I installed the OS, but just now realizing that the ...
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How can the log-in screen sound of linux mint 11 be changed?
How can I customize the sound that occurs when the log-in screen pops up on linux mint 11?
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Audio file as an audio input device
I want to play an audio file over VoIP in order that people can listen to it with a phone call. One way to do this would be to set up the audio file as an audio device where the audio starts playing ...
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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 ...
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FLAC correctness using MD5 placed in STREAMINFO
I know from [Sources], that FLAC computes CRC and MD5.
What I am afraid that flac --test only does CRC test - as stated in man flac : same as -d except no decoded file is written .
How to check flac ...
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How can I create a direct 8khz audio pipe in Ubuntu?
I'm interested in creating musical programs like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg&feature=player_embedded
Essentially these programs just generate sequences of integers, which ...
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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' ...
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No sound on Ubuntu 11.04
I have a problem on my notebook (MSI E-620) running Ubuntu Natty Narwhal x86. When I installed it there was just output, when I plugged my headphones in. The speakers in my notebook do not play ...
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Audio stopped working in Xine in Debian
Recently sound stopped working in all the Xine-based applications. I get the error: the audio device is unavailable. I am using latest Debian Testing with KDE. I haven't been fiddling with the ...
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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 ...
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Is there a linux distro that uses Jack audio server all the time?
By this I mean a distro that does not use pulse audio at all. So when you are runing programs like miro or mumbles you do not lose audio playback becuase Jack took over the audio stack.
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Debian linux installation cannot play sound
I am trying to get my Linux installation to play musix. I have debian linux. The contents of /etc/debian_version are:
6.0.2
I cannot seem to get any sound to play from my speakers and after looking ...
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Streaming all local audio to Icecast Server
Does anyone know if it's possible to stream all audio on a computer to a local icecast server. I was able to stream individual files using ices2 but not all audio generated from my computer.
Any ...
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How to turn microphone jack to headphones jack?
I've picked out my headphones jack. Can i change my microphone jack to headphones jack only by soundsystem configuration? My soundcard is Intel82801I (ICH9 Family) HD.
