Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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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 ...
4
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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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293 views
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mouse click sound on fedora
I have a USB touch screen system with Fedora 14 installed. I couldn't get to play sound on any mouse click (on touch). Is there anyway to play a click sound, either by changing some configuration or ...
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No sound in webex player in wine
I am using Fedora Core 10. I have installed wine with both wine-alsa and wine-oss sound drivers. I am able to hear test sounds by running winecfg, but when I run the webex player there is no sound, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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System beep not working in TigerVNC
I just upgraded my Gentoo Linux computer (where I'm running Xvnc from TigerVNC 1.0.90 (1.1 beta 1) compiled myself against xorg-server 1.9.5), and I'm no longer getting any bell sounds, just silence. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 ...
