Questions tagged [pulseaudio]
PulseAudio is a sound system for Linux and other UNIX systems.
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Cannot create a new virtual sink with pulse audio without feedback on the main sink by default instead of only selected sinks using it
I am using Linux, Ubuntu, with pulse audio and want to apply an audio effect to an audio source (eg microphone) and pipe that to a new sink which can be used by either arecord or another application ...
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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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How can I have a separate audio output that redirects to an audio input using PulseAudio?
I've seen other threads post about redirecting the audio from their speakers as an input, which is easy enough, but I want a completely separate dummy audio device that pipes audio into its own new ...
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Fedora module-native-protocol-tcp lost on login
On Fedora 39 I have the following...
cat /etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/50-network-party.conf
context.exec = [
{ path = "pactl" args = "load-module module-native-protocol-tcp&...
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No sound from bluetooth headset, but it's detected
I am currently using parrot os(Version: 5.3 Electro Ara). My desktop environment is mate. I already install pulseaudio. I am trying to connect my bluetooth headset. The bluetooth headset are paired ...
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No output or input devices found for audio on Debian/KDE since pulseaudio can't be started ("Failed to load module "module-native-protocol-unix"")
On one of my Debian12/KDE machines when clicking on the tray icon for the volume (plasma-pa) it just shows "No output or input devices found for audio" so there is no way to make the device ...
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How do you install a package offline within an ISO setup?
I need to use pulseaudio in Debian environment. I can normally just download it using sudo apt update; sudo apt install pulseaudio; But the environment it will be set in will be offline. I'm hoping to ...
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Change Default Master Volume Control to "PCM" in alsamixer on Linux Mint
I am running Linux Mint and whenever I use my system's hardware volume controls (e.g., volume up/down buttons), it adjusts the "PCM 1" level in alsamixer. However, I want it to adjust the &...
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How to Switch Audio Output through i3?
I've tried an assortment of Google results already, but haven't found anything that works or simple.
How would you cycle or switch through audio outputs on Pulseaudio through an i3 keyboard shortcut?
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sample-rate on pulseaudio changing by itself (resolute)
I have a problem to configure the sample-rate of my external sound card (fostex usb audio hp-A4 stereo numerique (IEC958)) on my linux computer with pulseaudio:
> uname -a
Linux music 6.5.0-kali2-...
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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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Pulseaudio sound delay in firefox
Every now and again, I will get a 1-2second sound delay from audio played in Firefox (eg. Youtube or Twitch); when I reload the corresponding tab (re-registering the stream), the delay is gone. This ...
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Gstreamer with Jackd causing audio issues
I have a gstreamer pipeline set up to route the audio to jackaudiosink. I'm using jackd to route audio to multiple devices. It's pretty good in that there's no latency in the audio. But the sound ...
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Mic port not working by default, and with pactl a different physical jack is enabled each time
Microphone jack doesn't work after boot by default. After some trial and error, I learned that:
pactl load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,2
# and sometimes
pactl load-module module-alsa-source ...
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Detecting bluetooth headphones connection with udev / bluez
What I'm trying to achieve: set bluetooth headphones as the default sink in pulseaudio when they are connected, and set back to laptop speakers when disconnected.
Why: my laptop detects all four ...
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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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How can I activate my keyboard's microphone mute light when using set-source-mute?
Give these two commands, the command for set-sink-mute turns on the muted light on my keyboard for audio
pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle
pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle
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pulseaudio not connected bluetooth device after pulseaudio restart but showing it if bluetooth connects after pulseaudio is running
I have a ubuntu 22.04 computer that works with USB soundcard.
I configure some pulseaudio properties of the sinks/sources in default.pa.
Now, I want to change to work with a bluetooth device.
The ...
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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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Connecting two PCs via RTP and pulseaudio and no sound
I'm trying to set up two PCs and send audio from one to the other using RTP. I'm seeing metadata on the other PC but there's no sound. I've tried to listen RTP stream on the other PC, but it produces ...
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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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Bt audio works, but absolutely no GUI
I have a BT audio device:
$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0a12:1275 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd HaiSenKeJi
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0a12:4010 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd
In sound settings I can ...
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connecting bluetooth headphones keeps failing
I am trying to connect a pair of JBL JR310BT headphones to a raspberry pi zero, running Raspberry Pi OS based on buster. I receive similar messages as displayed in this thread. I certainly tried all ...
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Pipewire-pulse: No sound, "playback open failed: Device or resource busy"
I'm running wireplumber + pipewire + pipewire-pulse and I can't get any sound out of the HDMI cable. pactl list sinks shows all my audio devices as SUSPENDED and journalctl --user -u pipewire shows a ...
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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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Divide frequency of live audiostream from an ultrasound microphone
I want to record ultrasound with a microphone, divide the frequency and listen to the transposed sound. I start with a normal microphone for tests.
I tried sox with rec and play so far. It works, but ...
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Sound level initially goes to 100% when adjusting
I've got a DAC connected through USB-C with a weird quirk: after booting, when I adjust the volume, it will first go to 100% volume - nearly blowing out my speakers - before setting the correct level.
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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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What is the hierarchy of the units that audio devices consist of on PipeWire?
I'm trying to understand the audio device hierarchy for PipeWire. Looking through the output of pw-dump has given me a good idea, but I still find it very difficult to grasp the whole picture.
My ...
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How to record audio device with more than 2 channels using SoX?
I have multiple USB audio interfaces that each have 10, 18 or even 32 input channels. Mainly used to record every instrument of a band into a separate track.
I record in raw wav format (s32le @48kHz) ...
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Connecting Raspberry Pi acting as smartphone to car infotainment screen via Bluetooth
I am trying to connect my Raspberry Pi via Bluetooth to my car infotainment screen. When scanning for phones, it only recognizes devices with the correct Bluetooth class of device (CoD) for phones, so ...
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Wireplumber doesn't see my sound card
My current audio stack is wireplumber, pipewire, pipewire-pulse, alsa. I had three sound devices on my machine, a USB microphone, a USB webcam, and my desktop's integrated sound ports, and an HDMI ...
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Linux Mint after upgrade to 5.15.0-75-generic kernel, no sound on headphones
I am running Linux Mint on a Lenovo T440p laptop. Configuration:
https://termbin.com/hh3nl
I upgraded to the 5.15.0-75-generic kernel today.
There is no sound on the 3.5 mm socket anymore.
I checked:
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PulseAudio sets volume automatically at login
PulseAudio sets the volume settings automatically at login with Openbox to some default values (as it seems).
How to configure pulseaudio and the autostart files to take the last values from the last ...
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Front center mapped as LFE, LFE as front center on my 5.1 Debian 12
switched from windows to linux yesterday after 10yrs
Trying to learn linux and it's damn hard just to do normal things my poor 3 brain cells . I literally can say I'm going insane.
Build: Intel i3 530,...
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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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"pipewire-pulseaudio" and "pulseaudio" Conflicts in Fedora 38
I am trying to use easyeffect which needs the pipewire-pulseaudio package to be installed. I also want to use PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) which needs the pulseaudio package to be installed....
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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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Having both speakers and headphones plugged in and switching in software on-the-fly with XFCE (on Arch)
I am running Arch with XFCE and my audio is pipewire + wireplumber + pavucontrol-qt.
I need something similar to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples#...
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Pulseaudion: stream to DLNA player
I wish to stream computer's sound to DLNA-capable player.
Therefore I have install pulseaudio-dlna, and all of its components, dependencies, etc.
Sound is getting through the network, however it has a ...
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How to make bluetooth earphones recording sound level independent on output sound level?
I use Debian 11, Xfce4 and if I use laptop speakers I can set 1% volume and on OBS Studio (or Pulseaudio Output devices) there will be the same recording sound level as if I'd set 80%. The same with ...
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Built in microphone not detected on Lenovo yoga slim 7 pro AMD 14ARH7
The built in microphone of my laptop is not detected in linux mint 21.1 cinnamon kernel 5.15.0-71-generic. This is what the pulseaudio configuration page looks like.
The input devices page is ...
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How to get pacmd to connect to the PulseAudio daemon on Fedora?
I was trying to set up pulse audio on Fedora 38 to have a virtual audio cable out from OBS into my web browser. However, when running any pacmd command, I get the error, "No PulseAudio daemon ...
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Noisy sound in Ubuntu 22.04
I dual booted Ubuntu 22.04 in my Lenovo windows laptop. In windows my speakers produce clear sound and loud.
But in Ubuntu sound was low so I turned on volume amplification and adjusted the volume to ...
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No volume in pulseaudio until slider is above 80%
I'm using Pop OS 22.04 LTS, Gnome 42.5.
I am using an external USB audio controller (GS3) and I have zero volume until I pull the slider above 85% or so then it gets extremely loud as it gets to 100%.
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WebRTC screen sharing broken on Debian under Wayland + Gnome + Pulseaudio
I cannot screen share on Debian 11 (bullseye) on any web app running in Brave, Google Chrome or Firefox.
From this WebRTC experiment, I can click "Screen share" and get the dialogue where I ...
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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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No Sound Problem In Kali 2023.1
I've installed Kali 2023.1. Although I tried all sound driver, sound not working. But when I plugged any device like headphone It's working. I also tried Kali other version and Ubuntu latest version ...
