Questions related to the pulseaudio sound server, which runs the sound system by default. (Microphones, speakers, etc are all run by pulseaudio via Alsa as a backend)
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How to tell my default sound card and microphone is that one which i get via aplay -l list?
I have always problem with pulseaudio (either its crash or either never starts i really wanna give up with it and let ALSA have a default mic and speaker output).
How can i tell my system to use as ...
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Subwoofer not working on MSI GT780DX
I have an MSI GT780DX, and it has very high quality speakers (2 for left and right, and one considerably good subwoofer). I've been using it for some time (probably a year with Ubuntu; 1.5 years ...
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Logitech webcam microphone not working in Google Hangout
Using Google Hangout, the internal microphone of my QuickCam doesn't work.
The Hangout Settings window pops up and tells me the mic may not me switched on, but it is listed in the 'hangout ...
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Why is sound not enabled after suspension (Ubuntu 12.04)?
What would cause sound not to reinitialize after suspending Ubuntu 12.04?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a T420 laptop and I have an occasional but very annoying problem with sound.
I frequently ...
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play audio through bluetooth speakers in 12.04 using CLI
I have gone through the whole gamut of trials with setting up playing audio through bluetooth and have not been able to make it work reliably (i.e., got it to work one time, and has not worked after ...
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Pulseaudio crashing over and over how to fix it for to make it stable?
Playing audio such as flv file and seperately using VLC to view RTSP stream. Suddently like after 5 minutes VLC cause crash to Pulseaudio over and over.
I have this strange problem, trying to do ...
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Optimal fix for post login freeze in Kubuntu due to PulseAudio
The following programs which starts with Kubuntu 13.04 freeze my KDE desktop for about 10 seconds.
start-pulseaudio-kde
start-pulseaudio-x11
When I remove the startup entries from ...
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no sound in Ubuntu 12.04 and /dev/dsp does not exist
Computer isn't playing audio. I've checked the hardware volume buttons, pavucontrol, and alsamixer. Nothing is muted. I've added the ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev. I've also done ...
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Setting the default ALSA device for Pulseaudio
I recently got an external soundcard/DAC (Fiio E17) and am currently trying to properly configure it on my Ubuntu 12.04 installation. When plugging it in via USB, it's immediately recognized and shows ...
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How can I let somone over ssh have access to pulseaudio?
I recently had a really good post here where I was able to figure out how to setup virtualgl and use it with X11 forwarding in ssh. I am using it to make a kind of multiseat setup. I only have one ...
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External Mic not always recognized
although this sounds similar to many previous bug reports, I couldn't find an answer in the other threads.
I have a Samsung serie 9 laptop with a single audio connector for headphones/mic. I am using ...
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dynamic switch between audio (applications) source
Formuling a question was quite hard :)
I would like to know if there is a way to force the soundoutput to play the last audio stream started, reduce the volume of the actual audio source and when the ...
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Stream Ubuntu audio to remote XMBC
I have a Raspberry Pi set up with an XMBC media server that can accept Airplay or UPNP inputs over the local network. I'd like to push audio streams to the Pi. I have managed to make it work with ...
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Pulseaudio works at 100 percent at all time
My headphones started to rattle recently. Then I opened pulse audio volume control I noticed that blue line indicating loudness of sound is always stuck at highest and it doesn't matter how much I ...
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Who is “user 109”?
I found out that user 109 launches pulseaudio on startup, which blocks mine:
petr@sova:~$ ps -ef | grep pulseaudio
109 1515 1 1 15:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ...
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Change default audio sink? [duplicate]
I've written a nifty script to automatically transfer all current PulseAudio streams to another output source, but this still doesn't do exactly what I need.
It seems that there is another setting ...
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How to improve the quality of music playing in Ubuntu?
I don't know how to start debugging it, but when I play music using XBMC it sounds a lot better than when using Clementine. I know it is a little subjective, but although I love XBMC great features, ...
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How to capture desktop sounds (Pulse Audio output) from avconv?
I've tried :
avconv -f alsa -i pulse recod.wav
..but it doesn't capture anything.
Have any idea?
Thanks!
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13.04 No sound while running applications as seperate user
Firstly I have to say I'm really enjoying Ubuntu 13.04, many changes seem subtle but overall it seems to be a much improved experience over 12.10. Most notably the snappy gui responsivity is awesome.
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Ubuntu 13.04 RAOP to Airport Express 2nd Generation doesn't work, how do I debug and get it working?
I have never had any luck with RAOP or Stream2Ip from Ubuntu 12.04 or 13.04 to my airport express 2nd generation.
In pulseaudio the airplay device either discovered by RAOP in paprefs or connected to ...
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Why do I have to pair my MW600 everytime so Blueman won't fail at setting up a stream?
On another instalation I can't switch to A2DP it just skips back to built-in analog output and bt device is back to HFP/HSP
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“Metallic” noise while recording using Kazam (Ubuntu 13.04)
I'm getting an extrange "metallic" sound while recording with Kazam, my voice sounds like "metallic distorted", this is not happening if I record using arecord in Terminal, even Skype is working ...
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Accessing PulseAudio server
I've set up pulseaudio on my Ubuntu server to receive tcp streams like suggested in the pulseaudio documentation and many tutorials. My /etc/pulse/default.pa now contains these lines:
load-module ...
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Audio only on honker after upgrade to 12.10/13.04
I'm using a Dell Optiplex 980. Under 12.04, the line speakers worked fine, but after upgrading to 12.10 yesterday, the only audio output was through the built-in PC speaker with nothing going to the ...
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Multiple pulseaudio multicast “channels”
I'm running a ubuntu server, I've configured it with a pulseaudio RTP multicast sink. This sink is in use for a multitude of applications.
What i'm looking for now is if there is a way to have an ...
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Sound doesnt work, after installing GPU Ubuntu 13.04
I had a Radeon 4670 that I replaced, with an Nvidea GeForce gtx460.
Now My sound doesn't work. I figure it was a driver issue, so I installed the manufacturers recommended driver, but it still ...
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How to select the output device for system sounds in pulseaudio?
In the Playback tab in pavucontrol I can set the output device to use for each application but not for the "System Sounds".
I have 2 active soundcards, one for my speaker and one for my headphones.
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Ubuntu 13.04 bluetooth A2DP does not work
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 in a new partition and I have some issues with bluetooth.
I usually use bluetooth to connect to my wireless headset, in the old partition with Ubuntu 12.10 everything is ...
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USB Audio 13.04 Yetti Blue Pro Microphone
I have struggled on 12.04, 12.10 and now 13.04 with the YetiPro microphone. http://bluemic.com/yetipro/
Audio output through the Mic's monitor is always perfect and works whenever I plug the device ...
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Skype - no sound untill I go to skype sound options
I had to create a script in order to make my skype acknowledge my microphone. It's a simple code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/client.conf
killall pulseaudio
skype
It indeed ...
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Unable to access sound card using VLC command line
I have been trying to access sound card input through the VLC player command line. Though I am able to open alsa://hw:0,0 in vlc, cvlc(command line) throws the error
open of `alsa://hw:0,0' failed
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Why doesn't the “Headphones” output have any sound? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a MacBook 2,1, and audio works fine. However, whenever I plug in headphones, both the sound in my speakers (naturally) and my headphones stops.
I noticed in the sound ...
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How can I access additional channels on my sound card through PulseAudio without kludges?
The Pulseaudio FAQ shows how to explicitly load an ALSA sink module with a channel map. This works, but also involves disabling the device autodetection modules, which I don't want to do.
There is, ...
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No sound on a clean install Ubuntu 12.10
I'm new here, in fact im new on the linux world.
I've had some issues with ubuntu. Nothing that I couldn't managed to fix. But I'm having this problem with sound.
The first clean install I made ...
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No PulseAudio in Skype Sound Devices choices, and microphone does not work…
I have a new re-install of Mythbuntu 12.04.2 LTS.
When I installed Skype 4.1.0.20 and tried to use it, I found that under options/Sound Devices/, under the three (Microphone,Speakers and Ringing) ...
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Rhythmbox play no sound after changing output device
Problem: Rhythmbox play no sound after changing output device. Ubuntu 12.04, i386, Rhythmbox 2.96.
How i get this:
- I have connected to my laptop a bluetooth headset.
- In sound preferences I ...
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PulseAudio high CPU load and sound gets interrupted
Serious sound problems starting occuring about last week, with no particular reason. The problem is that all programs that send sound to PulseAudio, at some point stop playing sound, they continue for ...
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Microphone and speakers stop working
I was trying to make a Skype call and then the microphone just went mute. I tried to solve the problem by restarting pulseaudio (with service as well as killing it with -9) and then the speakers stop ...
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Streaming music to Marantz M-CR603
Our stereo installation supports, according to the box, streaming over AirPlay (although the normal RAOP stuff doesn't seem to work on it. I think it's something called Airport Express), DLNA and ...
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Splitting audio channels using pulseaudio
My mission is record desktop using avconv (ffmpeg) + record microphone input + use sphinx program which also need the same microphone for voice control.
Now, the problem is that if I start sphinx ...
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Skype 4.1.0.20 - pulseaudio is correctly set, but the microphone doesn't work
I mentioned that my skype records during testcall the system intern sounds but not my voice.
In the Soundsettings i have no panel for configuration.
If I make a test with Sound Recorder, it works ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 crackling and popping sound [SOLVED]
I've an Asus Z92V, I am running Ubuntu 12.10 and since I installed Ubuntu on this notebook the audio keep crackling and popping continuously.
Moreover the volume bar on gnome-shell panel keep jumping ...
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Sounds have become unclean, now theres like static during all streaming and sounds like into a box and dusty
Could anyone help me find out what had turned the sound on Ubuntu 1204 like dusty and boxy? What I should check out or what I should do in order to improve it? The sound was pretty clean before I ...
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Mic is not working in Ubuntu 12.04
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on an Acer C7 netbook. However, my internal mic refuses to work whatsoever I did. I tried Pulseaudio, I tried Alsamixer, I tried to play with gstreamer-properties, but with no ...
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No application is currently recording audio Ubuntu 12.04 (ANSWERED) [duplicate]
The matter is that, when I go to Pulse Audio Volume Control in attempt to fix Skype microphone, it tells me that there is No application is currently recording audio . Does anybody have an idea how I ...
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Equalizer to cut specific frequencies on microphone input
Does ubuntu have a utility which can adjust levels for specific INPUT sound frequencies?
We are doing video conferencing and one of our co-workers has a lot of unavoidable ambient noise. He would ...
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Recording sounds straight from sound card
I'm trying to record sounds straight from my sound card. I've found tutorials telling me to download PulseAudio Video Control and, in the "Recording" tab, make sure that I am recording from "Monitor ...
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Autoconnecting to bluetooth device on startup and autochanging audio output
I use ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. Every time I turn my computer on, I have to manually connect to my bluetooth speakers and change audio output to bluetooth device.
I've found this question: Autoconnecting ...
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Recording internal audio choppy
I made a game and I want to record it using recordMyDesktop application. This game changes sound track often. While recording internal audio, sound gets choppy for a second when my game change sound ...
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Why have I lost the 2.1 sound settings on my Asus N76VZ DH71?
I've just got the Asus N76VZ DH71 with a Sonicmaster subwoofer. I got the output on the sonicmaster, but essential its a right channel, not the sub.
I was following:
No sound from external ...
