Questions tagged [audio]
Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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Port error on Ardour
I’m running Ubuntu Studio 18.10. In Ardour 5.12,.0-3. connecting to Jack, or ALSA, when I close a project then try to open another one, I get an error message that says “unable to create port: failed ...
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HSP/HFP not working
I´m trying to use my bluetooth headset on my laptop on arch. I got it connected and am able to listen to music using A2DP. But trying to use it as a headset I don´t get any input nor output working ...
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How do I get snd-usb-audio to detach from a device?
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I'm working on a reverse-engineered controller for an Arturia AudioFuse over at https://github.com/rhofour/audiofuse-cli that uses libusb (through pyusb). I'm able to find the device, detach ...
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Tascam in Linux [closed]
I'm using Mint Cinnamon 18.3, and want to get my Tascam US 428 functioning properly in it. This site (http://hal9000.drehmoment.org/tascam/) says it can be done with ALSA-CVS which is mentioned.
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Sound on Dell XPS 9570 only works on headphones
I have a Dell XPS 15 9570 and it's great, except that no sound comes out of the speakers. Weirdly enough it works just fine out of headphones! Just the built-in speakers are the problem.
Everything I ...
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Setting different per-device sampling rates in pulseaudio?
My Audio Devices
Input: Logitech C310 webcam mic (16kHz)
Output: Sony MBH20 Bluetooth headset (44.1kHz) in High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink) mode
My Problem
With the default PulseAudio settings, ...
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Fedora 29, Intel HD audio, no sound from speakers or headphone jack
I am using Fedora 29 and am not able to get any sound out of my machine. As far as the operating system is concerned (when using alsamixer, pavucontrol, etc.) sound should be working, nothing is muted ...
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Running LINUX Mint 18, have an spdif out sound card--no audio
BRAND NEW LINUX USER:
Mint sees my digital audio out (Digital Output S/PDIF is in the "play sound through" list) when I access the sound app. I choose that option and I get the test pop up. But the ...
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How can I fix garbled sound on a Creative X-Fi card on Mint 19?
I just updated from Linux Mint (Mate, 64 bit) 18.3 to 19.1. It was a clean install from the DVD, formatted drive.
The sound, both in Firefox (youtube videos, etc) and from mp3 and flac files in the ...
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Using pa_simple api efficiently [migrated]
I'm playing around with pa_simple api to get a better understanding of digital audio. I've written some code to feed custom generated audio data to the pulseaudio server:
char buff[2];
while (playing)...
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Using ffmpeg to split an Audible audio-book into chapters?
I've been following this answer to use ffmpeg to convert and play some of my Audible audio-books in LinuxMint. Each book is a single source-file, but I've noticed that ffmpeg lists all the chapters ...
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Systemd service kills sound
I have a systemd service that I need started and it attaches to the sound device. The problem I’m having is that it always seems to start before sound and then once I login as a user and look at my ...
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Headphones recognised but produce no sound on antergos
Recently I installed Antergos-19.1 on my HP Omen laptop. Speakers work, but when I plug in headphones to audio jack, there no sound is produced at all. The output of the command pactl list sinks |&...
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Where can I find the scripts binded to the lower volume / increase volume and brightness media keys?
When I press the media key on my keyboard to increase the volume (or the brightness, for example) a script is run and the volume is increased as expected.
Where are those scripts located in the OS?
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How to send sound to HDMI port in i3
In other DEs I am able to select between three different sound output media:
Headphones jack
Internal speakers
HDMI port
In i3 the sound output shifts automatically between headphones and internal ...
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Alsamixer not identifying audio output
I've map a keyboard combination to execute the command amixer sset Master 4%+ and it does nothing.
I plug my headset via the jack 3.5 port and in pavucontrol/Pulseaudio I can control de volume but ...
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Sox format for stream with sample spec 's16le 1ch 16000Hz', channel map 'mono'
I'm trying to pipe audio to sox and I get Error "sox FAIL formats: bad input format for `-': sampling rate was not specified"
parec -d alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor --rate=...
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Debian 9 Stretch 3.5mm jack not working
Recently, I installed Debian 9 Stretch (dual booting with windows 10 using grub). Everything works fine for now, except my headphones.
The PulseAudio 'Volume Control' interface detects my headphones ...
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SoX - mixing two audio tracks but looping/repeating only one
I have two audio-files and want to mix them with SoX using the -m, --combine mix option.
Both files have the same bpm, but not the same length, meaning I need to loop one file, but not the other. ...
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Loop audio file from the command line (gapless) or into new file
The only command line solution for gapless playback I found so far (working with ALSA and JACK) is moc (»music on console«). While I'm still searching for a simpler way I was wondering if it is ...
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audio not working on debian stretch
I'm running debian stretch on sony VPCSA36GG and the audio mostly doesnt work. It would randomly start working on restarting the laptop (its rare tho). Note that I had the same problem when I has ...
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gst123 - select alsa device for playback with external USB soundcard
I'm truing to get my audio played back by an external USB device, using the GStreamer based command line media player gst123 which comes with the option:
-a, --audio-output=<driver>[=<dev>...
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Possible bad install of alsamixer utility
Kernel version: 2.6.35.14 running (embedded) on an ARM MCIMX51. The system is rather outdated and old (ASoC). I am getting odd behavior with sound. I already defaulted asound config file (asound.play) ...
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Alsamixer-Equalizer with Kodi, HifiberryAmp+ and Raspi does not work
I am using a Raspberry Pi with Kodi and a HifiBerry Amp+ as a stereo. Everything works great so far, but I am lacking the possibility to use an equalizer to adjust bass and treble. I want to use ...
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No Sound Through HDMI
The problem I have is there is no sound on the HDMI port. I get video, but no sound.
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
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Microphone not showing up in Audacity
The mic is visible in "PulseAudio volume control". It is not muted and volume is at 100%. I can see it picks sounds. It is also visible in arecord:
$ arecord -l | tail -n 3
card 3: Microphone [Trust ...
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Noise in beginning of alsa application
I have ALSA driver for capture device which works fine with VLC. when I try to capture and render using own application having some issues. Issue is:When I start play, it has some noise in beginning ...
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Gstreamer - problem with mkv playback and jack
I use gst123 as my regular audio and video player. I'm now using a Saffire 6 USB interface, which works out of the box using jack so I select jack as audio-output device with the -a option like this:
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ALSA behaviour on stereo mic during process suspend
Goal
Suspend a Python process listening to pcm.record_right (for Google-Assistant)
Continue using pcm.record_left in a different python process (for Snowboy hotword detection)
Use Case
I want to ...
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PulseAudio: How to determine native sample rates and bit depths, supported by hardware?
I want to set maximum sampling rate and bit depth supported by my hardware (Intel HDA).
How to know the values?
I need this information because I want to avoid unnecessary resampling.
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How to recover a broken mp4 file: moov atom not found
I made a recording with
ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i plughw:0,0 /tmp/audio.mp4
I then moved /tmp/audio.mp4 to another directory (/root/audio.mp4) without stopping ffmpeg leading to a broken .mp4 file:
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Ffmpeg volume detection
I know that ffmpeg has volume detection functionality.
Now I'm searching for a way to capture microphone audio and listen constantly without saving any files if there is a volume below my threshold.
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ALSA Check if spdif plugged in / active
Is there any way in alsa / libasound to check whether the SPDIF In actually has a device connected?
I'm currently using a Raspberry Pi with an USB sound card to merge the audio from my PC coming in ...
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Exporting $PULSE_SERVER at start up
In order to run flatpak applications (like Discord or Spotify) I currently have to export the $PUSLE_SERVER in my ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc like so:
export PULSE_SERVER=unix:/tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/...
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Setting up Ardour/JACK on Mint/Ubuntu
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I would like to set up Ardour and mess around a bit on a keyboard-as-in-music which I got a while ago, turned out not to need, but couldn't return. When I try to start Ardour, with a new ...
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No sound in Debian 9 for most of the start ups of the system (sound card is recognized)
I installed Debian 9 64-bit a couple days ago in a Compaq Presario desktop. Everything was going ok until I found that there was no sound. Initially this was solved with a reboot. Unfortunately in ...
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Fedora 29 no sound from a generic usb headset
I bought a generic usb headset (Generic USB PnP Sound Device), it has been detected by the system, I am using Plasma KDE by the way, but it worked for me once and for about a second and then nothing. ...
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Use audio output USB device
I have a Roland TD-30 drum connected using USB to my computer. The USB device support MIDI and audio input/output. Currently Linux does see the USB card. aplay -l shows:
kaart 2: TD30 [TD-30], ...
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Does VLC supports changing audio samplerate using GUI option in ubuntu
I would like to change audio sample rate in VLC GUI option. Audio samplerate can be 32000Hz,44100Hz, 48000Hz and 96000Hz.These sample rate will be generated by the capture device ( capture device ...
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What is the proper way to declare the built-in microphone as mono?
I had some strange issues with the built-in microphone on a Lenovo IdeaPad 310-15IKB laptop under Linux Mint 19.1. For example, it was not working with Skype, but was working with Gnome Sound ...
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Required plugin could not be found (audio/x-gst-fourcc-mp3_decoder)
I've been using the latest Linux Mint 19 (Mate, 64-bit) and I've got a video file that can be played fine with VLC, but, if I try to reencode it with handbrake, I can't get the audio.
So I tried a ...
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Set order of sound cards when BOTH use the same driver?
I have the problem where my two sound cards boot in random order, which defeats all efforts at configuring the sound in a way that would work every time. I have seen solutions that rely on a ...
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Silence when capturing microphone with either arecord or sax
I am trying to run the following commands
sox -t alsa default output.wav
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arecord output.wav
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arecord -f dat -r 60000 -D hw:0,0 -d 5 output.wav
In all cases I am getting silent WAV. I ...
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Is my Speechmatic USB MultiAdapter recognized by the kernel?
Alsamixer shows my Speechmatic, but it doesn't work in any application.
I have .asoundrc set to device 1, and it works with other USB sound cards, like my Logitech, but not this one.
I think I have ...
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Input sound of a specific application and microphone from USB headset into Discord using PulseAudio
I would like to know how to use PulseAudio to set my input into Discord as both a specific application as well as my USB headset's mic. I can't simply input all internal sound because then I send back ...
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Debian: Noice on AUX devices
Everytime I restart my notebook, an annoying noise starts. The solution I found here is to execute the next command after Debian starts:
sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel
But this solution doesn't work ...
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Alsa and alsactl: init, store and default configuration of control file
The target kernel is: 2.6.35.14 (old) and its running on an embedded platform and the codec is a wm8753.
I am trying to understand how the alsactl system works. I found a file asound.play @ etc/alsa ...
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Sound stopped working on Debian
I've been using debian 9 from sometime, it's been good. But suddenly audio has stopped working. I used headphones, and after that it has stopped working. It is showing popular "Dummy Output" for ...
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PopOS - Headphones making Heart Beat sound while plugged in
Since this morning my headphones have been making a "Heart Beat" thumping noise while plugged in. No sound plays through them. Sound plays normally through laptop speakers.
I am running Pop!_OS ...
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Debian 9. Sound works only ~17sec
I have Debian 9 with Gnome on my Asus A52JT laptop. Sound works well in headphones, but in speakers only first ~17 seconds
~$ uname -a
4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/...
