Questions tagged [alsa]
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ) is an API of audio functions for the linux platform.
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HP ProBook 450 G10 microphone not working
I have an "HP ProBook 450 15.6 inch G10 Notebook PC" running arch (using pipewire) and the microphone does not work.
I tried using pavuctl and alsamixer to check if something was muted but ...
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linux record audio (arecord or similair) and seperate left/right channel
I want to record (line in) from an audio device and seperate the left and right channel each to a different process. or record them seperately of course.
what I want is something like that (play ...
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Share audio output device between two processes
Is it possible for 2 processes, each trying to send audio to the single output device, to share (mix) the audio streams?
I'm running AlmaLinux 9 and have paired back to basic ALSA only. But if needed ...
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mic boost for kazer kiyo?
I'm setting a new webcam, a razer kiyo, and I'm having some trouble with the microphone. It works, but it's really quiet. The "mic boost" option in alsamixer would seem to be a good choice, ...
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soundblaster creative x ae 5: dualboot / card in bad state after booting debian
i have a soundblaster creative x ae 5 soundcard and i really like to play with that in windows. but most of the time i use my workstation with debian or fedora. when i boot fedora and then windows, i ...
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ALSA - USB Interface - How to choose only one channel
I am currently trying to record audio with ALSA and a USB interface. I am using a focusrite scarlett 4i4 3rd gen and a raspberry pi 4b with linux debian bookwarm installed.
My question is how do I ...
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How to write raw MIDI bytes to Linux Midi Through client?
The command line utility amidi may be used to send MIDI hexadecimal bytes to any alsa rawmidi port identified in amidi -l.
I have a piece of music software (Organteq) which monitors Midi Through for ...
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Audio on Arch linux sometimes don't work after reboot
Sometimes when I restart my system the audio isn't working. When I run amixer scontrols I get this result:
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
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How to check & adjust sound volume from the command line with pipewire-pulse?
Of course I found this closely related question. However, nothing there works with this modern Fedora installation.
uname -a says it's "Linux 6.4.15-200.fc38.x86_64".
If it matters, here are ...
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Can't Get Microphone on Arch Linux to Work Using Pipewire(alsamixer shows that everything is on and good)
For the past 5-6 hours I've been trying to get my microphone to work but I genuinely can't figure it out. Simply installed pipewire, pipewire-alsa, wireplumber, alsa-utils and made sure there were no ...
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Trouble using jackd with ALSA and an "AudioInjector Octo"
I am attempting to run an AudioInjector Octo (a simple 8-channel audio hardware card) on a Raspberry Pi 4, running the Raspberry Lite OS.
My understanding is that ALSA manages AudioInjector - but that ...
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Simultaneous input and output on pipewire for USB-C microphone
I have an Elgato Wave 3, and I am trying to use it on Ubuntu 22.04 with PipeWire (had to replace PulseAudio because my Sony WH-1000XM5 was not able to give me high-quality audio without replacing it ...
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Facing audio issues in pop os linux
i am facing audio issue in pop os linux that when i plug in earphones, only i am able to hear audio with noise in between some of the times and earphones mic does not work at all. But it is working ...
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Question about streaming audio to mobile device (PulseAudio / AudioRelay )
I can stream all audio from my pc to my android with SoundWire and it work fine, but the latency is pretty bad so i though audio relay might be a better option but i cant seem to get it working on my ...
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Audio in the entire system freezes if one application is paused on a breakpoint
I'm making a game using SDL2. When I'm debugging it and pause on a breakpoint, the audio in all other applications (e.g. Firefox) freezes, as if infinitely replaying the last ~0.1 seconds of audio.
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How to capture sound from default built in speaker and microphone together using ALSA
I wrote my C++ application, it opens an audio capture device (built in microphone on laptop) and records audio from it using ALSA library.
But I also want to mix it with audio from the speaker (if ...
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Stopping all sounds before freezing, restarting after wake up
In the last few days I took the habit to leave alsaplayer looping. On freezing, it stopped; on waking up, it resumed... for a few times. The last time it didn't resume. dmesg was showing ...
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how to run pulseaudio systemwide as root on debian?
I added these lines into /etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service file:
[Unit]
Description=PulseAudio system server
[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=pulseaudio --daemonize=no --system --realtime --log-...
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How to bind the DAS keyboard volume knob in dwm / void linux?
My setup: Void Linux, xorg, dwm + dmenu + st, DAS keyboard.
I can probably figure out how to bind some "normal" keys for volume control, but I really like this big round knob on my keyboard :...
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How to get Intel Atom Z36xxx/Z37xxx HD Audio working in Alpine?
I've installed Alpine 3.18 on a PC with a Gigabyte J1900N-D2H motherboard. I'm running XFCE, but getting no sound.
There is no volume control icon in the tray area, and no sound options in the menu or ...
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Bluez + BlueAlsa: AVRCP commands not received
I cannot see any AVRCP communication when using dbus-monitor. Not a single signal nor property changed.
I use Bluez 5.68 and BlueAlsa v4.1.0-7-ge6218b5
Logs on BT speaker connection:
Aug 02 10:18:03 ...
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Using ALSA with dmix and multi plugins together for recording
I'm trying to set up ALSA for recording some videos with ffmpeg, so I need to both hear the application sound and be able to record it (I actually probably need to record 1 specific application). ...
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MacBook Pro's audio doesn't work on a fresh Pop!_OS install
I have a MacBook Pro 16, and decided to install Pop!_OS on it.
Without any configuration, I just see a Dummy Output as output device:
Here is my most important system info:
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS ...
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laptop speakers muted after headphones unplugged (Debian derivative BunsenLabs)
Strange audio trouble on an older laptop...
I just installed a fresh BunsenLabs on an old eeePC Asus 1001PXD.
I noticed that I wasn't getting any sound from the speakers. When I plugged in headphones, ...
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Missing /dev/dsp
I have installed Cepstral Swift (test to speech), and when I run the command which should output audio I get the error
oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp
I ensure the also OSS was ...
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OSMC, Bluetooth audio choppy
I have a Raspberry Pi running OSMC, paired to a UE MEGABOOM speaker. As of lately, I am having issues with choppy audio. The issue is somewhat sporadic in nature – I may be able to play a few songs ...
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send (alsa) audio via network via UDP
This to my understanding records mono in wav format for 300 seconds to a named pipe called "mic_rec"
rec arecord -D hw:4,0 -d 300 -f cd -t wav -c 1 mic_rec
And this sends whatever it finds ...
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HDMI audio not working (?) on SoC Celeron N3350, analog audio works [sof-essx8336]
I have just installed Debian 12 on a mini PC equipped with Celeron N3350. The goal is to use it for bluray playback. So far the video is smooth, but I can get audio only from the jack analog output.
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USB headphones get no sound when I use Mplayer and Alsa built from source
I recently built Mplayer and Alsa from source, and when I play a video through the player, I don't get sound through my USB headphones.
However, if I rebuild Mplayer and configure it to use the ...
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How to change sound sink from a script in Debian Bullseye
With Debian (LMDE 5) Bullseye, I am unable to change the audio sink using pacmd, as I was able to do with Ubuntu. However, the mate-volume-control application/gui is able to change the sinks.
It must ...
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pactl can't unremap monitor source
Background:
I have a monitor with aux in and out.
When trying to use some applications I couldn't use the monitor device, so I tried remapping it to a normal pulse audio source. Unfortunately, I ...
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USB Headset Prevents Media Playing on Arch
I recently bought a USB headset and it has been behaving very inconsistently. Sometimes it works fine but other times, if I try to play any media, it acts as if it is buffering until I unplug the ...
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Loading ALSA source in PulseAudio fails on startup but works after restarting PulseAudio
I am trying to set my default source to be a virtual dsnoop device (dmic_sv) defined in ~/.asoundrc, and I have added to ~/.config/pulse/default.pa the following lines:
# Tried placing the line below ...
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Alsamixer settings reset everytime headphones are plugged in/unplugged
I'm on KDE Neon using Kernel 5.15.0-70-generic.
I recently started experiencing a problem where every time I unplug or plug in headphones, my settings in alsamixer reset to some point in the past. ...
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Capture device (microphone) detected by alsa but not pipewire
I have an issue where audacity and arecord are able to receive input from the microphone while the rest of the system cannot, instead it seems that it just duplicates the audio output.
My system is ...
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Linux-Audio-Bug: vendor/freeverb/revmodel.cpp:40: void revmodel::setrate(int): Assertion `rate <= TUNING_MAX_SAMPLE_RATE' failed
I'm running a debian 'testing' system:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64
Architecture: x86-64 Hardware
Vendor: TOSHIBA
Hardware ...
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Audio stopped working after a system update
I'm using KDE Neon and after my last system update with pkcon update my audio has completely stopped working. Both my speakers and headphones produce no sound and Audacity fails to detect sound ...
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Strange Audio Issues Triggered by MuseScore and OpenShot
I'm using Zorin OS 16.2.
The problem is simple. Whenever I play back any audio whilst editing in OpenShot 3.0.0, it appears to play really fast, condensing a four-minute audio clip to 28 seconds. As a ...
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Alsa - record output but don't play to speaker
I'm testing out web radio with darkice/icecast, and I have a working setup with a server and client. However, whatever audio the server serves has to be played by the server, and I can't mute it ...
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Can I create a virtual ALSA source without snd-aloop or sudo?
I am working with a Pepper robot that unfortunately does not allow for sudo access. The robot has a 4-mic array, and I would like to create a virtual ALSA device that merges the 4 mics with the ...
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Headphones are detected in Ubuntu only after booting once from Windows
I am having a weird problem while using my headphones (3.5 mm jack). It is a dual boot Razer Blade 15” laptop having Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 installed.
In Windows 10, I noticed that with the windows ...
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YouTube videos won't play when DaVinci Resolve is open
The problem
Imported a video on DaVinci Resolve Studio it and it seemed to playback fine. However, whenever I tried to watch any video on YouTube after playing a video on DaVinci Resolve, it wouldn't ...
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How to simulate a PC speaker?
I bought a modern laptop which seems to lack a hardware speaker. Is there some kernel module to simulate it over ALSA instead or so? I could find only some very old patched modules from late 90s which ...
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Intel sound card not working
I'm having troubles getting my sound card working. Here is some information on it:
ignatius@catch22bbs:~$ lsmod|grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 16384 0
snd_hrtimer 16384 1
snd_seq ...
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Stream audio to file
I have a SoC device that I would like to use to make audio recordings automatically when powered on. Importantly, the device is powered off just by cutting the power supply. Therefore I need to ...
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Splitting the outputs of a 7.1 USB sound card into 4 distinct stereo pairs
My plan is to use the 4 analog outputs of my 7.1 USB sound card (AUREON XFIRE 8.0 HD) as individual stereo pairs to create a multi-room audio setup using Ubuntu 22.04 and Shairport Sync.
I have the ...
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how to gracefully cope with Alsa card moving slots across reboot
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 running Raspbian with USB card/speaker connected. The problem is that it moves slots across reboot. Here, it shows up in slot #3:
$ aplay -l
**** List of ...
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How do I confirm cmus is using alsa?
I've searched the net and came up with the configuration below. but I don't think my cmus install is using alsa.
How do I know? Well, I installed strawberry and have configured it to use alsa. If I ...
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wireplumber: How to disable auto-mute speakers when headphone is plugged in, and vice versa? Generally: How to stop it to interfere with alsa mixers?
I recently switched to pipewire + pipewire-pulse + wireplumber.
Is it somehow possible to tell wireplumber not to automatically mute/ unmute unused paths?
E.g. when I plug in a plug into the ...
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configure: error: Could not find alsa!
I'm trying to cross compile jdk for android. I run:
./configure
--with-toolchain-path=$ANDROID_NDK_HOME/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64
--with-sysroot=$ANDROID_NDK_HOME/platforms/android-21/...
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