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 create/simulate two audio lines/devices?
I have searched around the internet for answers; however, I was not successful in locating an answer. What is the best method of simulating two audio devices using Pulse Audio/ALSA/something else? ...
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How to configure 5.1 Audio system for Realtek ALC861 sound card in UBUNTU 12.04?
I have already installed GNOME ALSA MIXER on Ubuntu. I did set all the parameters correctly. In Hardware settings, in the "choose a device to configure" section, it appeared as "Built in Audio - 1 ...
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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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Digital Surround (HDMI) Output
I recently built a HTPC and installed Ubuntu 12.10 on it. It's a Shuttle XH61V with an onboard HDMI connection that I'm using to connect to the TV, which in turn connects to the speaker system (5.1).
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Fuzzy audio when Skype makes sound
I am having trouble getting my sound to work properly in Skype.
Every time Skype makes noise, all of my audio goes crackly, including anything else that's coming from other programs, even when the ...
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How can I connect my Kubuntu 12.10 to a different pulse audio server?
I have configured my PC as pulseaudio server. Now I want to connect my Laptop (Kubuntu 12.10 quantal) with this pulse server.
In earlier versions there was the "padevchooser", which could be used to ...
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No bass on my laptop
A have a laptop (Acer) with two front speakers and subwoffer (Acer Tuba). After upgrading to 12.04 only front speakers are working, no sound from subwoffer. There is no 2.1 configuration on Sound ...
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PulseAudio Equalizer doesn't survive neither suspend nor hibernate
First time Ubuntu boots up it's fine. I can listen to the music and the sound is equalized. Then if I suspend the PC or let it hibernate then, after I have woken it up, the sound becomes plain. If in ...
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Audio glitches occur randomly
Audio in media files randomly glitches and sometimes repeats for 1-2 seconds and then continues playing normally. These glitches seemingly happen at random times and don't recur in the same part of ...
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removing pulseaudio, moving to jack
I have installed jack because I want to use the LADSPA plugins available, in jackrack, for realtime audio processing. (I couldn't find any way to use them with pulseaudio)
After much effort, I ...
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No sound on new gaming PC
Well, as you can probably tell by the title, I have no sound.
I recently built a new gaming PC, and installed 12.04 onto it. Obviously, I have ALSA and PulseAudio installed, but I don't have ...
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Is there a per-application volume control indicator?
There was per-application volume control applet for Gnome 2.
There is a per-app volume control extension for Gnome-Shell.
Is there any indicator applet for Unity like this two?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lubuntu no sound at all; no mute, alsa, pulse
Apologies if this question has been answered already but I've scoured these forums and I haven't found anything that works.
I recently put together a low spec machine with plans on running Lubuntu ...
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Sound Menu gone missing after PulseAudio 3.0 install
Yesterday i was trying to minimize the lag when streaming music from my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop to my pulseaudio server on my raspberry pi, by installing pulseaudio 3.0 on the raspberry pi and then again ...
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No analog audio output, only digital output available
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a new Intense PC, which uses a single 3.5mm audio jack for both digital (S/PDIF) and analog output. I'm trying to get the analog output working, but in the Ubuntu ...
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Scummvm can't start audio devices
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and when I run scummvm from terminal I get the following message:
$ scummvm
WARNING: Could not open audio device: No available audio device!
This results in some games ...
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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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Output audio from multiple bluetooth sources simultaneously
I recently discovered the bluetooth capabilities in Ubuntu. Would it be possible to configure my HTPC(Ubuntu 12.10) so it would allow pairing multiple bluetooth audio devices(iPhone and 2 Windows PCs) ...
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Got the headphone jack working but sound settings disappeared - ubuntu 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on Lenovo Thinkpad E420s. Initially everything was working great, but after a while, the head phone jack stopped working. Speakers used to work just fine. So I tried out many ...
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Wine and system audio mute one another
I'm running into an awkward problem. Here's the thing:
If I start up my computer and run a Wine instance (Guild Wars 2, in this case, though it doesn't and shouldn't matter), sound works fine. While ...
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Webcam Philips SPC630NC
I'm using the SPC630NC Webcam Philips on Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. Video works fine, audio not at all. I tried to set the Pulse Audio inputs using Pavucontrol with no result. Where am I wrong? I looked at ...
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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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Streaming Pulseaudio output using Rygel
I am trying to stream the output from Pulseaudio to my WDTVLive Streaming Media Player using Rygel. I have been playing around with it for a while, looking around forums/blogs etc and I’m getting ...
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Ubuntu refuses to switch to usb audio device [Creative X-Fi HD usb]
I am currently running a persistent live session of Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, installed on a 4GB flash drive. I own a Creative Labs X-Fi HD usb audio device, which I desire to use with my installation. ...
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E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module “module-oss-mmap”: file not found
I have a 4.1 surround system that connects with 2 audio jacks (3.5mm) to my PC (Ubuntu 12.04). I have two soundcards (one on board and on usb-card) connected. My Idea was to run the audio for the 2 ...
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Acer 722 internal mic keeps turning off
Hi we have 200 AcerAspireOne 722 for student use running Ubuntu 12.04
I can get the internal mic to work but when on battery power I can't get the mic to be ready on start up. The user has to toggle ...
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How do I pause music in Spotify whenever I turn the volume to 0?
Is it possible in Ubuntu to create a script of some sort to run a hook into the volume system, so that when I turn my volume down to 0 (using the convenient keyboard controls), it pauses any media ...
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XUbuntu 12.04 sound becomes distorted on ASUS-computers
On my XUbuntu 12.04 Desktop from time to time audio becomes distorted, not the audio from some specific applications but every possible sounds are very noisy and barely recognizable.
Then i go to: ...
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How do I set up multi-seat audio with multiple sound cards
I want to build a multi-seat system with two seats. The first seat will be dedicated to run a MythTV front end client and this seat's video/audio will be sent to multiple TV's in other rooms via a ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
