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How do I fix VLC sound stuttering after pause/resume?
What worked for me was: Tools > Preferences > Audio > Output module: > ALSA audio output
Restart VLC and the stuttering after a long pause is gone.
I'm using VLC 3.0.16 on Ubuntu 22.04.
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Login screen on wrong monitor / display
For at least Ubuntu 22.04:
Log in and set the monitor layout
Check inside the configuration file ~/.config/monitors.xml if the tag <primary>yes</primary> is set in the right monitor.
Copy ...
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Linux CLI tool for testing audio
The package alsa-utils includes a command called speaker-test.
Install
You can install with
sudo apt install alsa-utils
Run
You can now run this to produce a constant sound
speaker-test -t sine -p 1
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Program that shows the sound output in decibels of my speakers
I don't think it is possible. Given the same output signal from the computer, different sound devices will produce different intensities of sound (consider an earphone and a loudspeaker, where the ...
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Program that shows the sound output in decibels of my speakers
My laptop can energize my laptop speakers or a entire football stadium sound system.
The short answer:
Accurate decibel measurement can only come from measuring the output of each speaker in the sound ...
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What does Ubuntu mean by "analog input" via USB?
But why does Sound Settings contain these 2 settings?
The PCM2903C Stereo Audio Codec With USB Interface, Single-Ended Analog Input/Output, and S/PDIF datasheet has the following Functional Block ...
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Wireless headphones can't use mic and audio at the same time
Bluetooth headphones are limited in bandwidth, and can not send/receive enough data to handle both HD audio and microphone input at the same time. You get to choose between spending all the bandwidth ...
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How to record output to speakers?
For those stumbling over this and using pipewire instead of pulseaudio:
pw-record -P '{ stream.capture.sink=true }' test.flac
This would record from the current audio output.
(found at https://www....
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How to install Chromebook audio drivers in Ubuntu?
There is a audio-script repository for Chromebooks, which works for Ubuntu 23.10 and later versions.
wget https://github.com/WeirdTreeThing/chromebook-linux-audio/archive/...
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What does Ubuntu mean by "analog input" via USB?
I really don't know any better way on how to describe this, but being that it is a USB interface device it doesn't matter if it is plugged into the USB port or installed internally. The device will ...
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Can anyone recommend a good Audio Equalizer for Ubuntu?
I tried Pulse Equalizer, Easyeffects and JamesDSP, Flatpak and self compiled. None of them ran stable for a longer period of time since Pipewire has become the default with Kubuntu 23.04. Eventually I ...
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Pulseaudio cpu usage above normal with no audio/video play
I would suggest installing "pipewire" - the successor of pulseaudio to your system.
First, you should check if pipewire is already installed on your system:
systemctl --user status pipewire ...
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Realtek® ALC4080 Codec Front Jack doesn't work
Update: Once my Ubuntu has updated the alsa package to version 1.2.8 (check with the command alsaucm --version) I was able to make my card work just by installing alsa-ucm-conf version 1.2.10 with the ...
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How to disable the popping sound when changing the volume in KDE/Kubuntu?
The trouble with GUI-based answer is that they can't be trusted for too long... (bis)
Right-click on the tray icon:
Click on "Audio Volume Settings... Alt+D, S".
Uncheck "Audio Volume&...
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What equalizer replaces pulse effects in Ubuntu 23.04?
Easy Effects is the new version of Pulse effects and has almost the same user interface.
sudo apt-get install easyeffects
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3
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No sound from speaker on LG gram 2023 (i7-1360P)
The problem is solved.
Please have a look:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?331130-Fixing-ALC298-audio-(no-sound-from-speakers)
The solution relies on executing a number of hda-verb (from ...
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XPS 15 9530: bad sound quality in Ubuntu 23.04
You are indeed correct - only twitters are detected, not the subwoofers.
TL:DR;
Its WIP, but with rebuilt kernel, you can get all 4 speakers working already today, I described latest here on github ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS forgets audio output device setting on reboot
To force pulse audio to use the most recently selected output source:
sudo vi /etc/pulse/default.pa
Comment out this line:
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
to:
#load-module module-switch-...
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How can I change the default audio device from command line?
In the case of WirePlumber (a PipeWire session manager), wpctl can help you.
Get the available audio devices with wpctl status (default is shown with a *):
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.77, machitgarha@...
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How can I make the volume change in smaller increments?
Ubuntu MATE 22.04
$ gsettings set org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.media-keys volume-step 2
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Unable to find again a previously removed bluetooth device
I am no tech but here is how I recovered it following recommendation by Duncan Ralph aka "psathyrella" at the bottom of this page.
access directory /var/lib/bluetooth ,
you need to access as ...
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Looking for way to transcribe audio files into text
You can use OpenAI Whisper .
A volunteer named Gael LeGoff has packaged OpenAI Whisper for Snap. To install OpenAI Whisper using Snap, run:
sudo snap install whisper-gael
Now, to convert an audio ...
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How to disable bluetooth continuously scan devices on Ubuntu 20.04?
You might have your gnome control center bluetooth GUI open, which forces the scan to be on and can apparently overwhelm bluetooth.
I had a similar issue where my headphones would stop working over ...
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Low volume in Realtek ALC 285 Ubuntu 22.04 for HP laptop
You could install pavucontrol, which has a GTK interface and is the most comprehensive graphical audio control I know of.
It has different tabs, which will lets you control any in or output device on ...
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How to uninstall pipewire and go back to pulseaudio
That ppa has a man-page error
To revert this ppa
sudo ppa-purge ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream
And check you won't uninstall a lot of packages
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How can I downmix stereo audio output to mono in PipeWire (on 22.10)?
I managed to achieve true mono output by combining the stereo stream into a mono sink Pipewire - Module Combine Stream:
use $ wpctl status to get the sink id of your desired sink and $ wpctl inspect [...
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Almost no sound [ALC294] in Vivobook Pro 15 - Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 22.04.3 on Vivobook Pro 15 k6500ZE, Win11 dualboot
I was banging my head againts the wall with this too.
An intresting thread from 2020...
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206289
&...
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Not able to get AAC codec running when connecting Bluetooth headsets in Ubuntu 22.10
I had the same problem, appereantly codecs are not shipped with default install.
This does install required codecs:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aglasgall/pipewire-extra-bt-codecs
sudo apt update
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ubuntu 22.04, output sound not working when connected to hdmi or docking station, when disconnect sound works fine
I had the same issue
Try to install pavucontrol
It fixed it for me
sudo apt-get -y install pavucontrol
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No sound from speakers on ASUS Zenbook UX3402ZA_Q409ZA
Please check solution (SSDT patch) described here: https://gist.github.com/lamperez/862763881c0e1c812392b5574727f6ff?permalink_comment_id=4531290#gistcomment-4531290
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