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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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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Asus Sonic Master on Asus N53SV
I have read that there's a problem to get the subwoofer working in these laptops. I tried this solution No sound from external subwoofer
but I don't how to prove that the subwoofer is properly ...
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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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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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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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No sound in Ubuntu 12.04
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 a month ago and am using it till now. I failed to notice that all this time there was no sound at all while running Ubuntu, even while playing a game in Wine. The weird thing ...
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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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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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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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Getting Google Talk/Skype to Work with Pulseaudio
Google Talk/Skype will not transmit my voice. My microphone works in sound recorder, and i can see levels moving when I check sound settings in gmail.
How do I fix this
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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 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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How do I change the way Ubuntu adjusts my volume mixer levels?
I've had a mildly annoying problem with my sound for quite awhile now, and I've finally decided it's time to do something about it.
Every time I adjust the main volume slider in the toolbar, or use ...
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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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Upgrade to 12.04 - No Audio Pulse Broken
Trying to fix audio output. NVIDIA GT 520 is the card so HDMI audio. It was working perfectly in 11.10.
Following the steps at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...otingProcedure
Here is my ...
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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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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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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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how do I re-activate PulseAudio?
I disabled Pulseaudio to be able to use my microphone for SKype, and now the volume controls don't work, which I understand, is a common problem. I read that somebody fixed their Skype microphone by ...
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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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Microphone not working on Lenovo G470
I used a Lenovo G470 laptop (Core i5 2410M processor, AMD Radeon 6370M and 2GB DDR3 RAM) and I installed Ubuntu 12.04.
I can't get the microphone to work.
I encountered this type of issue before in ...
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How do I get sound in Trine on 12.04 64-Bit?
Whenever I try to play Trine, it starts but I get no sound. In the terminal this error message appears:
/o/g/trine> ./trine-launcher64
ALSA lib conf.c:3314:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open ...
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Inverted surround channels
I'm encountering an issue with surround sound on Ubuntu 11.04.
I managed to play sound trough HDMI but the channels are inverted.
For example when Pulse Audio plays on the center speaker, it goes ...
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Subwoofer is not working in Dell Inspiron 660 with Ubuntu 12.10
I've a "Dell Inspiron 660" desktop PC with Ubuntu 12.10 and Subwoofer is not working.
This is the Audio device that have:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family ...
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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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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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keyboard shortcut/command to mute/unmute microphone
During voice conversations in Skype/Gmail/etc. I would like to mute/unmute the microphone without having to go through all these steps each time:
Sound indicator
Sound preferences
Select Input
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Running jackd on startup / replacing PulseAudio
How can I replace PulseAudio with Jack? I want to start jackd on startup either during boot or during logon instead of PulseAudio.
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How to use android 2.1 phone as remote audio receiver?
I have an unused HTC Hero Android phone (running Android OS 2.1), I would like to connect it to audio amplifier and leave it connected for months, so I could use this android phone as remote ...
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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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Does pulseaudio have an error log?
In order to help provide better information for my other question about browsers and Pulse audio, I wanted to see if I could get some kind of helpful log information.
However, there doesn't seem to ...
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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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How to upgrade pulseaudio
I got some issues with sound, sometimes it freezes and get out of sync with picture. VLC is giving me error, and there is said that I should update to pulseaudio 3.0. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and ...
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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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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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Set default sound device output
I own a pair of usb powered speakers, and I am having trouble finding how to set the usb speakers as the default output. I found the setting where you can switch the outputs but no where to asssign a ...
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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 to Pass/Record audio output as an input device?
I used to use a mixer of some kind and I can't remember which...
I would like to record audio from the output, without leaving the computer. I remember in the Juanty days you could easily enable ...
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Stream audio to mobile device
I'd like to stream the audio from Ubuntu 10.10 to my HTC Desire HD (Android 2.2).
I've seen solutions so far for streaming from audio players, but I'd like to stream any audio output from the PC to ...
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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, ...
