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asound.conf file is corrupted does not allow the play with the correct sound card as a result it keeps failing
I have this following asound.conf file, but when i play $ speaker-test it fails. How can you tell asound.conf that each and every time on restart of pc also use this sound card only?
"card 2: PCH ...
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Reconfigure line-in as analog-out
I am trying to reconfigure my "line in" as another "analog out" and use it alongside with the default analog out port.
I am using an onboard realtek sound card. It is very simple to do this in ...
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How can i find the correct name using aplay, or pacmd or something else for my microphone and sound out put, to apply in asound.conf?
I need to write a deafult mic and default speakeroutput in the asound conf file. But i dont know exactly how do i find my external sound card or microphone devices name? So that on reboot or ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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How can I switch between different audio output hardware using the shell?
I use my laptop with an external monitor which has speakers. When the monitor is attached through HDMI I can switch (using the GUI: Sound Setting --> Hardware) between the normal laptop audio output ...
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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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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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656 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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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
668 views
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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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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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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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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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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716 views
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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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 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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Newly installed Debian Squeeze doesn't have sound [closed]
I have pulseaudio installed,.but no sound on a newly installed Debian Squeeze.
Kindly throw some light.
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407 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 ...
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907 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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Fedora 15 - Audio Configuration
I have a Macbook Pro 6,1 that I have dual booting OSX and now Fedora 15. I'm working on getting the audio working.
In System Settings > Sound > Output there are two options for audio devices:
High ...
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Sound input issue with skype, selecting a microphone?
Ok, Skype yet again has issues with sound. This time, it is unable to record audio. The system is using PulseAudio and I am using a web cam as a microphone. Actually, I tried another web cam and ...
