PulseAudio is a sound system for Linux and other UNIX systems.
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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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Low sound volume on Lenovo T520 under Fedora 16
I'm having trouble hearing anything at all under Fedora 16 on this Lenovo T520. Everything in alsamixer is at 100% (both pulseaudio and card). I installed Windows 7 on the laptop to check if the same ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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How can I set a top limit for the PCM value when changing the loudness with pulseaudio?
when I change the loudness with pulseaudio, pulseaudio acts on several of the values I can see when I use alsamixer -c0
I have a problem: when the PCM loudness exceeds a certain value (80%), the ...
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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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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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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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User systemd PulseAudio service
Not much else to this question: I would like to know what I need to create a PulseAudio systemd service to be run with systemd --user.
I've tried a few different things, including various user ...
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Jack vs Pulseaudio — how is it faster?
I see a bunch of claims that Jack is faster than Pulse and has less latency. How is that so? Why does Pulse call itself lightweight, and the Jack guys call it fat? Could anyone break down the ...
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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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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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Is there any gnome-shell mixer icon relying on alsa and not pulseaudio?
So, long story short, when I installed Mint 12 on my Dell laptop I realized my HDA-intel sound board have problems with pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and got my sound back, but removing ...
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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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Enable udev and speex support for pulseaudio
I tried to install pulse audio, but after running ./configure I got a warning message:
===== WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING =====
You do not have udev support enabled. It is ...
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How to switch PulseAudio inputs and outputs from command line?
At work I use to use an USB headset which gets detected as separate audio output and input (for the mic) devices. At home I use conventional analogue headset which is plugged into my laptop built-in ...
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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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Pulse Audio and Roaming Profiles on CentOS 6
We've been testing many Red Hat based distributions recently at work to replace Windows as our main operating system. We choosed CentOS 6 since all our software were fully compatible. The biggest bug ...
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Stream system audio through mpd
I use mpd to stream music to my phone (connected to Hi-Fi) via http.
Yet, this only works for songs in my mpd database. I oftentimes want to play stuff in my browser and would like that to be ...
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mpd: no audio output with PulseAudio, no mixing with ALSA
I am trying to use mpd with PulseAudio output. Thus I wrote the following in /etc/mpd.conf:
music_directory "/mnt/dados/Musicas"
playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db"
log_file ...
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Adding usb audio device causes no sound with flash player on archlinux x86_64 with pulseaudio
I added two USB audio devices (from my broken i686 archlinux) to my x86_64 systemd archlinux, a Logitech webcam/mike and a Logitech mike. After this, no sound from flashplugin, either Firefox 11.2… ...
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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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Pulseaudio/X permission other user/SSH
My user user1 is running a graphical X session with pulse configured per-user.
I need to run a graphical program that uses audio with user2.
If I do su user2; program program doesn't start and I ...
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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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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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Endless pulseaudio error logging: failed to acquire autospawn lock
I have an issue with pulseaudio logging error messages in a loop and wonder how I can fix them:
Aug 7 20:22:17 s pulseaudio[25638]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.
Aug 7 20:22:17 s ...
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Debian 6: media keys in gnome-settings-daemon don't work
I am running a minimal Debian 6 x86_64 setup with pulseaudio, alsa and gnome-settings-daemon. Whenever I press a media key, gnome-settings-daemon spits the following out to stderr:
** ...
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What is the alsamixer of Pulse Audio?
I just installed Pulse Audio over my ALSA installation. Is there a Pulse Audio equivalent of alsamixer that I can use for tasks such as changing the microphone gain?
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How to have CoreAudio from Mac to Linux/Unix?
After using Alsa and PulseAudio for a while, I feel they are not yet strong enough for Audio capture and audio playback.
When I test with loud-speaker and microphone, there is self feedback-loop.
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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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PulseAudio cannot open shared library
I'm running Debian wheezy (x86) with GNOME on a Intel Core i7 machine. I'm having problems getting PulseAudio to work properly. Since GNOME 3 automatically installs PulseAudio I'm pretty much stuck ...
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Configuring Pulse Audio for easy use with multiple USB DACs?
I have 3 Behringer UCA-202 DACs going into a mixer. I want something similar to this setup:
1 DAC: Misc Audio to be mixed: output to go to the mixer.
1 DAC: Audio In: Record/Broadcast: input to come ...
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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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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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Setting up surround sound with optical out
I have centos 6.3 running on this pc. the built in sound card is detected normally and is a 7.1 card with all speakers listed. It includes a optical out as well as hdmi for the built in video. It ...
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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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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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How to change mixing of channels by pulse audio / alsa
I have a recent problem with my sound configuration. Basically, it's way too loud until I set the volume below 10%. And then it's very quickly too silent. Using the alsa mixer, I can set the headphone ...
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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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Do you recognize this audio panel?
Wondering if anyone recognizes the app in the images presented at the top of this question?
Change PulseAudio Input/Output from Shell?
I loaded Fedora 18 - MATE and don't see this app. Your ...
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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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Gnome-sound-applet not detecting sound card
Everything was working until today, the gnome-sound-applet does not detect any sound card. Alsamixer however is working and I can change volume.
I noticed that pulseaudio is not running and that ...
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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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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.
