Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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Do the “play” utility in Linux really have a “delay” to stop it's process with really small files?
I have a wav file, Duration: 00:00:00.17 (less than a second!)
When I call play to execute it, play executes it fine, but my terminal becomes idle for ~4s until play process is done.
Is this by ...
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Flash running in Chromium and FF at once, why no sound in the second browser?
I work as a student assistant Linux admin and I just packaged up Adobe's "Square" plugin to get 64bit FF running flash pretty well (first time I've seen it work this well), but there's one little ...
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How come I suddenly don't have any audio?
Just a few minutes ago my sound was working, and then it stopped! I suspect it was caused by me checking out some video editors. How do I go about troubleshooting this?
What I've so far tried:
I ...
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Is there a tool that lets me exaggerate audio levels?
It often happens that a movie I'm watching has audio loudness levels set too low. Since I use a typical laptop, I can't just go raise the volume level of my speakers.
I've raised all knobs offered by ...
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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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Prevent mplayer from changing system volume
When I change the volume in mplayer it also changes for other applications. How can I configure mplayer to only change its own volume? Or is this a problem with the rest of the audio stack? I am using ...
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Sending audio through network
This is a rather crazy idea.
I am planing to set up a configuration that would send audio being played on my laptop to my home server via local network so that the sound is played on the server ...
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No sound from cli apps or from zsnes
Some programs don't have sound, in particular ZSNES and anything I run from the command line. So my question has two parts:
How can I diagnose this problem? (I'm thinking of a command like lspci ...
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How to “reencode” mp3 files
I have a fair number of mp3 files which I created using audiohijack pro on a mac. Now I no longer have a mac and am using them on my linux systems. Unfortunately the program I use (rhythmbox) to ...
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Sending music directly from MIC to LS
How can I tell linux to send directly from my microphone to my loudspeaker?
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Sound card not found anymore
I started my ubuntu today and Audio card was not working. Card is not even listed with lshw. No device with description like physical id: 1b (I remember the old device settings).
Any ideas?
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Sound Problems with pulseaudio
The overall question that my whole problem is kind of based on is regarding sound in linux. Should I be using alsa or pulse or what?
I'm using pulse at the moment and this is my problem: I was in the ...
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Audio recording does not work — how to diagnose?
I used KRec to record some audio, but when I played it back I got nothing. What are the things I need to do to figure out where the problem is? My computer is a Dell OptiPlex DX620, Intel Pentium 4 ...
