Questions tagged [pulseaudio]
Questions related to PulseAudio, the default sound server in Ubuntu, which manages all audio devices like internal and external sound cards (and therefore all speakers, microphones, headsets, etc.) through its ALSA backend.
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Can't set sink description to string with spaces
I'm trying to create a null sink and I want to set a description so that it can be recognized easily. I'm able to do it with a name without spaces but if I try to add spaces, the sink isn't created.
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"snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: control 2:0:0:PCM Playback Volume:0 is already present" error every time I boot
I am new to Linux and not sure where to look for logs and stuff. Every time I boot, I get a black screen with this error message, which comes up for a second:
snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: control 2:0:0:...
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Crackling and sound delay in Ubuntu 20.04
Whenever I open any video or audio with my earphone plugged in I get to hear a crackle before I actually hear the audio.
I used to play 2 audios, with one audio in mute and other audio which I want to ...
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Sound settings are missing
I know there are tons of topics with that name, but I just can't make it work.
I had alsamixer from start and it didn't show me sound settings except for mixer itself.
I tried to install gnome ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 no sound out of Bluetooth headphones
This is on a machine I upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 a few days ago. No issues at all getting sound to play out of headphones on 18.04.
The headphones are paired with Bluetooth. I unpaired and ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 audio crackling through headphones
I'm currently experiencing crackling audio with headphones in Ubuntu 20.04. This issue only occurs with headphones, but multiple sound devices, doesn't occur with speakers. I've tried multiple listed ...
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How to keep stereo output after echo cancellation with pulseaudio?
I have an issue with my headset where my microphone plays the audio that I hear from my PC (application audio such as spotify/youtube etc. gets picked up by my mic)
To fix this I have implemented an ...
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All Audio Outputs Listed as "unavailable", "unplugged" in pavucontrol. Dummy Output Listed in Audio Settings
I'm a new Linux user, Windows 10 refugee. Everything is working well except for audio in my Ubuntu installation. As the title says, in the audio settings, the only audio option is "Dummy Output&...
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How to add a low-pass filter to a system-wide PulseAudio profile?
I would like to know how to add a low-pass sound filter to the system-wide PulseAudio profile in order to allow only frequencies under 18000Hz to my speakers.
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Pulseaudio requires reload after each restart to show USB Headphones
When I restart my laptop (HP ZBook 15 G6) with Kubuntu 20.10 (kernel 5.8.0-29-generic) I don't see headphones (with microphone) in KDE volume setting widget and pavucontrol-qt:
pacmd is showing:
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No audio from Ubuntu 19.10
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu on my laptop. But there seems to be no audio from the speakers.
I tried many fixes mentioned on this forum such as force starting the alsamixer selecting the ...
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5.1 sound on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with 3 3,5mm jacks allows stereo onlly
I'm aware this question has been asked a few times, but none of the answers did help during my 18.04 time.
My mainboard is an Asus Prime H310M-AR2.0 with 3 jacks in the back for 5.1 sound.
mainboad ...
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Upgraded to 20.04 now audio quality bad
I upgraded my computer to Ubuntu 20.04 (from 18.04) this afternoon. Audio has been just fine under 18.04 on my computer, however now since upgrading I have found that the audio quality is very poor. ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 displays the sound bar on Pavucontrol, but no audio
I recently got Lambda Tensorbook with Ubuntu 20.04. I have audio devices installed (screenshots below), but the audio does not work, unfortunately.
I noticed that it's a known issue, so while I didn't ...
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HDMI sound is not working on Ubuntu 21.04
I tried every search result that I could find, including some on Ask Ubuntu, but I am unable to get sound working. I have a new installation of 21.04 on a ASUS TUF B500 motherboard and RX5500 GPU. ...
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How to fix and enable HDMI audio?
I have laptop HP Pavilion with geForce gp, and just instaled Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (had win10), one Monitor and pair of speakers. My problem is that I can't play audio on speakers. If I plug speakers ...
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Bluetooth HSF/HSP headset issue
I googled for days and did all the "it works on my machine" solutions I've found but the problem is still there.
Let me explain: almost every time I connect my Bluetooth headset, Ubuntu ...
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Audinate AVIO USB Dante audio interface not detected by Alsa
I'm trying to install a Audinate AVIO USB Dante audio interface on a hedaless Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. I'm not able to detect it properly by ALSA and Pulseaudio.
The device is a one stereo channel in ...
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virtual Y cable to sound card
is there a way to create virtual Y cables for my sound card hardware? In other words, I need to create two virtual copies of the hardware sound card.
The reason is I have two programs that need to ...
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Ubuntu keeps auto adjusting its microphone input volume regardless of the app I am using
Whenever I am building my project on Android Studio, for some reason the microphone volume goes to 100 without notifying me, and when I next join a call with somebody, they get annoyed because of my ...
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How do I gather information to file this specific bug report?
I am on Kubuntu 21.04. I have a 3080 ti and nvidia-driver-470 installed through apt.
Everything works except when I try to click on the volume tray applet, or launch pavucontrol-qt directly, the ...
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Why Soundwire server application doesn't give out any sound, just echoing my voice?
Using Ubuntu 20.04 and just installed Soundwire aaplication, as my speaker wasn't working, I installed PulseAudio Volume Controller and portaudio then also when I connect to my mobile device I can't ...
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Dummy output issue after installing Gstreamer and ALSA plugins in Ubuntu 20.04
I had installed Gstreamer and ALSA plugins to work on some experiments.
Steps followed for the installation of the plugin: https://tsn.readthedocs.io/avb.html#plugins-installation
However, after the ...
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Pulseaudio audio problems
I have had this problem for quite some time now, before it worked by just inputting pulseaudio --start, but now it doesn't work anymore. Usually when i use my web browser i start hearing crackling ...
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Headset microphone not working on Ubuntu 20.04
When I'm speaking with my internal microphone and I connect my headset, it's not detecting the microphone on it. Thing that does not happen in Windows, also didn't happen in Ubuntu 18.04
Any ...
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How to disable S/PDIF (IEC958) profiles in Gnome and PulseAudio
While I have no S/PDIF interfaces on my computer anymore these days, Gnome sound settings still shows me a list twice as long as necessary. With a few displays, DACs and Bluetooth transmitters, a list ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Dell XPS Laptop Audio not working
I've almost got my new Dell XPS laptop setup properly, but a few things are still not quite right. One of the major issues is with audio.
First off, I've never been able to get the system to recognize ...
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PulseAudio not passing AC3/DTS, downmixing to stero
Running Kubuntu (KDE) 20.04
TLDR: Pusleaudio won't pass AC3/DTS to my external DAC via coaxial S/PDIF, but ALSA will if an application has a setting to direct output to ALSA.
I'm using my motherboard'...
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JBL Quantum 400 Headset Mic Issue
I've just bought a brand new JBL Quantum 400 Headset USB and plugged it on my Ubuntu20 machine. The issue is that the "JBL Quantum 400"'s Microphone is not showing in the Audio Settings nor ...
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USB Microphone not working with Zoom in raspberry pi
I've installed pi-apps in my daughters Raspberry pi 400, and successfully installed Zoom. Everything works fine, we are able to connect to meeting, the video works fine, there is a little lag, but ...
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KDE headset mic not working
Recently I bought a new headset and it works perfectly on my phone but in my KUBUNTU desktop doesn't work. The audio output is great but its mic is not working while my other headphone's mic works in ...
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external headset microphone not working in Ubuntu 20.10 (not even wired, cable headset) (ACER SPIN 5)
Recently, external microphone has stopped working while using classic wired audio combo jack headset.
And worse, I've tried now fresh Ubuntu 20.10 USB live, and not working, either.
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How to configure mono instead of stereo sound?
Using a USB headset with a single speaker, shown here as Y-247A:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 2a7a:6a18 CASUE CASUE USB Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 045e:0040 ...
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HyperX Cloud II Headset USB Not Detected
This USB device is not detected on my Ubuntu 20.04 tower. I know the USB dongle, and headset is working, because they work on my laptop which has Pop!_OS 21.04.
On my tower I get this command response ...
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Why doesn't the audo utility "jack" show codecs which are installed?
When starting up jack with the command hdajackretask the GUI reports that there aren't any codecs for recording audio. Off the top of my head, this seems nonsensical as I'm using Text Now and other ...
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No sound on HDMI Ubuntu 20.04 (Another case of...)
I have an HTPC (AMD Ryzen 3 2200G on GIGABYTE B450M S2H) connected through HDMI to my Denon AVR-X1400H receiver. This is an always on system and I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-59-...
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Why do my BT headphones default to HSP/HFP upon connection >80% of the time?
I'm using Ubuntu 19.10 on a Dell XPS 13 9380. I've looked everywhere, even gone so far as digging through the Bluez source online to find the exact line of code or configuration that causes this ...
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Playing audio stream not showing in pavucontrol
My Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is not shown volume bar which present below the volume control slider for right and left channels in the Play tab . However, I can hear audio,and the ...
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What is the state of aptX in Ubuntu 20?
Over the last years I have followed the development around low latency and high quality codecs on bluetooth headphones. To be short: They are popular and the most used codec seems to be aptX.
That ...
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Real time audio normalisation / limiting
I'm looking for a software solution to normalise real-time audio output, basically just the standard audio out for the system. In simple terms I want to set a volume level then have the sound from ...
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Software switching audio device Ubuntu 21.04
I have an issue with my sound devices. I have front audio panel and rear on my PC. I have dynamics plugged in front and headphones in back panel. Sometimes I need to change output from one device to ...
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Headphone volume button to control ubuntu volume?
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I am using bluetooth audio a lot at work to play music to my wireless headphones. It could be spotify or other tools such as youtube, local video playback, etc. As headphones goes as a much ...
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MIcrophone headset: not working but found
I have my headset connected with a male stereo jack adapter. My ubuntu recognizes my headset which correctly reproduces sounds i.e. in Settings/Sounds I can choose between internal and headset ...
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Internal Mic not working Ubuntu 20.04, Razer Blade 15 base ~2020
I have been using Ubuntu for a while; this is not a new install. The mic worked perfectly in a Zoom meeting yesterday. Today it was unresponsive.
In system settings the mic test is also unresponsive. ...
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How to temporarily disable PulseAudio while running a game under Wine?
Just wondering if there a way to temporarily disable PulseAudio as I am trying to run a specific Wine game (Left 4 Dead 2) and it makes the game crash occasionally.
If I kill the process it ...
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How can I cleanly remove PulseAudio in Ubuntu 14.04?
I am having sound issues in Ubuntu 14, mostly underruns causing skips and ugly noises and I want to remove pulse audio in an attempt to debug.
But when I do this breaks system settings in ubuntu. ...
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Playing a mp3 from terminal to a usb sound card
Hi I know this question is really specific but I want to know how to play a mp3 or any other audio file format from terminal to only a external soundcard I think such a thing is possible with ffmpeg ...
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How can I fix dependency issue on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Focal? [duplicate]
I am not a really experienced user with Ubuntu dependencies management and I am faced with an issue I cannot solve my self.
My Ubuntu version is the following:
OS Name: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
OS Type: 64-...
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Ubuntu 20.04 bluetooth headphones play through internal speakers
I'm trying to pair my Skullcandy Crusher Wireless headphones to my computer. I'm able to get them paired, and selected in the sound menu successfully, but for some reason audio still plays through the ...
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pulseaudio broken after common fix for distortion
I've had problems with audio distortion especially after suspend. Previously I could fix this using the following line:
pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
but it now started indicating ...
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