Questions tagged [audio]
Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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No sound in LFS
I'm trying to install BLFS 8.4
I have successfully installed alsa-lib and alsa-utilities, the alsa-mixer also works fine. My sound card is "HDA Intel".
speaker-test also works but gives an ...
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Microphone not detected on Acer Swift 5
I have installed Pop!_OS a few days ago and after many and many researches I finally found how to have the audio detected on Ubuntu (and it was really long and difficult).
The problem is that my ...
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Trim last x seconds of audio files
I have a bunch of audio files from each of which I need to cut out the last 1 second. The audio files are of arbitrary lengths.
What is the best tool/way to do this?
I am somewhat familiar with ffmpeg,...
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Bluetooth Audio Trouble in Arch Linux
I have been completely unable to connect to any bluetooth headset until following the steps in the first answer in this forum post:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
sudo killall ...
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How to stream audio using PulseAudio to VLC sink?
I'm trying to stream audio between two linux machines over wlan using pulseaudio.
On the source machine the following options are set:
Network Access > "Make discoverable PulseAudio network ...
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Pairing bluetooth headset fails with error org.bluez.Error.AuthenticationTimeout
I'm having a problem connecting to my Bluetooth headset. I can pair it to other systems, so I know it's working, however, on my new laptop on which I recently installed Manjaro i3, it fails.
This is ...
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How to reverse a wrong headphone detection?
When I plug in the headphones, the volume control panel says "headphones(unplugged)" and plays audio via speakers. And when I unplug the headphones, the volume control panel says "...
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xRDP sound redirection ubuntu 20.04
I followed the instruction posted in this tutorial to install pulseaudio-module-xrdp. If I go to the Settings Applet and select sound, then I see xrdp-sink object under sound card. And in the ...
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No sound on Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 3
I just installed Manjaro i3 on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 3, and, to my surprise, the thing that's not working is the audio and the sound.
The "status bar" icon shows a muted icon, and ...
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Routing application to a virtual microphone (pulseaudio)
I am trying to route my application's audio to a virtual microphone whilst still being able to hear the application on my end. Is there any way to achieve this, and if so, how?
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My headphones are detected even when they are unplugged
I run debian buster on my Laptop. I recently get a issue that my headphones are detected even when they are unplugged. Because of this my speaker doesn't work. Sometimes it corrects itself but ...
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How to fix no audio on Parrot Sec 4.10
I have no audio and I don't know why:
I tried:
sudo alsa force-reload
It returns:
sudo: alsa: command not found
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Fresh install, volume is too low even at 100%
So I decided to try out pop_os (20.10) and after some minor problems everything is working now, except the audio. Even at 100% volume is too low! I used to be able to set my headset on the desk and ...
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Detect Bluetooth version of the peripheral/protocol actually in use?
I bought a Bluetooth (+WiFi) PCIe card that is version 5.1 (hciconfig confirms).
My headset claims, in product description, also to be 5.x.
However, I'm unconvinced, or at least I don't think it's ...
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Connecting to a Windows VPS from a Linux PC
I have a Linux PC. I also use a Windows 10 VPS. I can connect without a problem. However, I cannot hear any audio on my Linux from the VPS. The PC has sound and I know the VPS is working and has the ...
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All output devices disappear Debian
A little while ago I installed pulseaudio so that I could connect bluetooth to my laptop. After that volume control keys stopped working, I had to use slider to control audio. I was displeased and ...
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Error when trying to connect to bluetooth speaker: `org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed`
I am trying to set up bluetooth on a new debian buster system, and am running into trouble. I started out with some issues with getting the adapter to find the bluetooth card (intel ax200) but that ...
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Kali Linux doesn't detect headphones in audio output list
Since I set up my own Kali Linux system, I have a problem. After booting into Kali, it doesn't detect my plugged headphones (normal jack input) and I don't hear anything. I went to settings -> ...
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Integrated mic not working when headphones (no mic) are plugged in, also some weird static noise in the left headphone
I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 for 7 days now, and my internal mic isn't working when my headphones (no mic on them) or external speakers are plugged into the headphone jack. I tried looking around in ...
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Audio distorted on pulse/alsa, works fine on JACK. How to analyze why JACK works correctly and use that knowledge to fix pulse/alsa configuration?
To test and resolve this problem I am using a fresh install of Fedora 33, audio settings or configuration files left untouched.
By default the audio is heavily distorted (it is possible to make out ...
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Mapping missing audio devices to Playback hardware devices?
I am trying to correlate or map my integrated Display-port and HDMI ports to devices listed in the output from aplay in a attempt to enable the audio outputs on them simultaneously. However, I am only ...
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My linux doesn't recognize any output device apart from HDMI
as the title describes, my Pop_os! doesn't recognize my other output audio.
I've tried a ton of fixes and that's how I managed to put the HDMI recognizable.
Anyway, the sound starts to work when I ...
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Sound unmutes automatically after switching applications
Whenever I press the mute button my sounds are muted successfully, unmuting works fine too.
But when I mute the volume and switch applications and it plays a sound, it's automatically unmuted again ...
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No sound device in kernel 5.7 failed to load sof firmware
I am using parrot os (based on Debian unstable). My audio controller is Intel audio. Here is the lspci:
Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 02c8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, ...
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canberra-gtk-play gives “Failed to play sound: Sound disabled”?
How do I get rid of this error:
$ canberra-gtk-play --file /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga
Failed to play sound: Sound disabled
bell.oga seems ok, and my audio works because paplay ...
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External Microphone not does not work on Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
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I cannot capture audio using an external microphone on my Linux Mint 20 Ulyana system. In Sound Settings under the Input tab, when I select the external microphone from the Device list, the ...
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Unload snd_usb_audio modules
I am trying to unload the snd_usb_audio kernel module in order to try some other module parameters (with modprobe).
This fails:
# rmmod snd_usb_audio
With the following error:
rmmod: ERROR: Module ...
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How to output sound on 3.5 mm stereo jack and via UPnP-stream simultaneously?
Imagine a standard desktop computer. Connected to this computer is a pair of loudspeakers via common 3.5 mm stereo jack (AUX). Everything works fine so far.
Now we have a further speaker in another ...
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Can only either have output or input on my USB sound card when having headphones plugged in. No profiles that use both
I recently bought a usb audio device so I won't have to unplug and plug headphone/speakers everytime I wanted to switch between them.
The audio card has input for mic and one for speakers/headphones. ...
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Built-in Laptop Microphone on POP_OS stopped capturing my voice
I've been having a problem with my internal microphone on a fujtsu lifebook a555 laptop for few weeks now. Back when I used pop_os 19.10 everything worked smoothly. Then I switched to 20.04 and it ...
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Pulseaudio - Issue with independent hdmi / internal audio
I am newbie linux user and i faced big issues with audio configuration
On Windows I'm using very often different audio outputs for different aps
like headphones for firefox and hdmi output for edge to ...
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No audio with surf suckless.org web browser
The surf web browser of suckless.org is not playing any audio.
It was installed from the repositories on Xubuntu LTS 20.04.1. The default pulseaudio sound server works fine with other applications ...
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Sound and Touch pad issue with Asus fx505gt
I got dts X headphone 7.1 surround sound and laptop touch pad is didn't recognize as a input device in /proc/bus/input/devices but it do recognize my wireless Logitech mouse.
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How to Disable audio jack detection in Debian based Linux (Kali Linux)
My audio jack is damaged, since it is damaged it always show the headphone is up, even if there is headphone, Is there anyway to disable audio jack detection, I only need in-built speaker and ...
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Bluetooth Wireless Quality sometimes becomes really bad?
I am running Unbuntu 20.04, connected to Sony XM4 headphones via Bluetooth.
Sometimes the sound quality is fine.
Sometimes it becomes really poor, as though it has been compressed badly.
How can I ...
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Use ffmpeg to achieve uniform output volume levels across different video recordings
I record math lectures for my students using quicktime (audio and video). Quicktime does not offer much control over the input audio gain. I would like to make sure that all my recordings have the ...
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With HDMI audio, sound volume control does not work in Gnome-3.38 on FreeBSD-12.1
I have a 2nd Gen Intel Sandy bridge Core i3 system with integrated graphics. I am using HDMI output which is connected to my monitor from where the jack is connected to my 2.1 Logitech speaker system. ...
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Bluetooth disconnect immediately after connecting
I am using Manjaro Linux. All bluetooth devices have stopped connecting to my computer. Neither headset nor smartphone will connect for more than a few seconds.
bluetoothctl shows the following ...
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No sound on a Thomson TH12-N2.32 speakers
I happen to have a cheap Thomson TH12-N2.32 netbook in my care that is driving me nuts with the sound from the internal speakers not working after a Linux Mint 20 XFCE reinstall.
So first things first,...
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Headphone jack not reliably detecting on Ubuntu 20.04
The issue that I'm having is that headphones plugged into the 3.5mm jack on the front of my desktop computer are not always detected. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on a custom built computer with a B450 ...
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Audio stopped working on HP laptop with Linux Mint
Dual-booting Windows and Linux Mint an HP laptop. Audio working fine for a day or so. Other person who uses the computer booted into Windows and made something in Paint.NET, once I booted back into ...
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Audio fading within a few seconds to silence
Whenever I play sound on my ALC294 device running the snd-hda-intel driver, it fades to silence within 2 seconds. The problem is exactly the same as described here. Everything is fine under Windows ...
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Writing audio CD: auto-prepare command line with CD text from Brasero or K3b?
I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 and I want to write audio CDs. Both Brasero and K3b work fine.
But now I want to write audio CDs on two USB CD writers at once, and neither Brasero nor K3b can do ...
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3.5mm audio jack not working in Debian (testing)
My 3.5mm sound jack suddenly stopped working. I'm not sure what I did besides restarting my computer. The HDMI audio (and video) output still work fine. Only the HDMI output appears in Gnome sound ...
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Enable ALSA to capture audio from CS4207's SPDIF input
On a custom platform utilizing Congatec's SA5 module and an attached CS4207 HDA-codec I'm trying to use the codecs digital SPDIF input and output.
The HDA-design was copied from Congatec'S conga-SEVAL ...
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How to apply reverb effect to audio files using commandline tools only?
I'm used to the reverb effect in Audacity, and was wondering if the same or at least, similar effect would be done using ffmpeg alone (or at least, commandline tools only).
Any ways to do this with ...
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Configure pulseaudio default input port
My laptop (running Pop_OS 20.04, kernel 5.4 -- it's a Ryzen and works very poorly with any older kernel) pretends to have 2 microphones: a "digital microphone" (that never does anything) and ...
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Pop!_OS will not play sound from iMac speakers
I am new to this community, so please tell me if the question I'm asking is off topic and would be better suited to a different stackexchange.
I'm on an iMac 18,3 (27-inch late 2017) running macOS ...
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Speakers only work when headphones plugged in
I am on Ubuntu 20.04.
I have a monitor connected to audio, via HDMI.
If I change the volume using the slider bar, I can hear a beep from the speakers, but nothing happens if I play youtube or ...
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No sound after ubuntu upgrade to 20.04
I have to do sudo alsa force-reload to let my system detect my soundcard, before I only got shown a dummy output. But everytime I reboot I have to do this again. I already tried reinstaling alsa-base.
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