All Questions
Tagged with audio pulse-audio
141
questions
0
votes
0
answers
61
views
How to keep Ledfx and Moode Audio from blocking audio output device
I have a Raspberry Pi with a Hifiberry Amp4 that runs Moode Audio OS.
If I pick Pulse as they audio device in LedFx and play a sound file with aplay sound_file.wav my leds react to the music.
The ...
- 103
0
votes
0
answers
50
views
No output device, until I plug in an AUX cable
A little while ago I messed something up while inside my audio system settings GUI (Using KDE Plasma on Debian). I can not recall exactly what I did, but I pressed some button while inside that menu ...
0
votes
0
answers
68
views
How to listen to a module-native-protocol-tcp [mpd] pulseaudio tcp stream on two output devices with independent volume control
I saw https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/611158/how-do-i-monitor-microphone-input but this only applies to the mic apparently.
(how do i create this list in markdow?)
✓ server: mpd pulseaudo ...
- 152
1
vote
0
answers
217
views
Setting device profile on PipeWire
I have a gaming headset with both chat and game outputs, but I can only select Digital Output + Mono Input in audio settings.
Back in Manjaro with PulseAudio I added a udev rule like
echo 'ATTRS{...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
How to swap between pulseaudio and pipewire without restarting?
IIUC, pipewire is an audio system service and a newer alternative to pulseaudio. It's now the default with Fedora. When first upgrading to Fedora 37 I noticed audio quality was significantly worse, ...
- 2,792
2
votes
0
answers
78
views
What could be causing static on HDMI Audio with Pulseaudio
Using Yocto Hardknott release, I am running Pulseaudio version 14.2 on the kernel version 5.10.72.
I use the module-combine-sink to stream audio to both Lineout and HDMI simultaneously.
About 50% of ...
1
vote
1
answer
183
views
Route two audio inputs into one
I need to use two inputs (microphone and virtual monitor) and create one input from it, in order to use one single input in discord. Currently using Arch Linux and pulseaudio.
1
vote
0
answers
4k
views
How do I enable audio in a xrdp session
I'm connecting to a remote device running ubuntu 22.04 + kde + xrdp.
My understanding is that, to get audio forwarded through rdp, I need to install a pulseaudio plugin for xrdp. So far I've tried:
...
- 131
0
votes
1
answer
302
views
Pulseaudio: How do you blacklist a specific sink/output (but not source/input) from being switched to?
I have a USB microphone. When plugged, the input/source is automatically switched to it, but so is the output/sink. I want to disable the latter, so that only the input/source is switched.
How do you ...
- 157
0
votes
1
answer
165
views
Change The Default Range of Volume From 0-100% to 0-153% on Xfce
By manually setting the volume to more than 100% in PulseAudio Volume Control, I will only be able to decrease it by the Fn + Left shortcut key, until it's less than 100% and only then I'll be able to ...
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
525
views
play sounds over ssh
Is there any way to play audio files through ssh ?
I set up the x11 forwarding , to view images , videos(without Audio) , but the problem is that I want to play sounds through ssh , since the x11 ...
- 21
0
votes
0
answers
184
views
Audio not working on chromebook running Arch (EndeavourOS) with i3WM
Although my audio was working fine when I first installed EndeavourOS on my Acer R11 chromebook two months ago, it stopped working 3 weeks ago. Since then, I have tried several things to get it back ...
0
votes
0
answers
29
views
Only try to define pulse audio remap sink when master device exists?
I have a custom pulse audio rule in my default.pa:
.nofail
load-module module-remap-sink \
sink_name=MyRemapSink \
master=alsa_output.some.device.path # settings ...
.fail
When I enable JACK, I ...
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
Uninstalling pulseaudio removed a bunch of things that I don't know how to re-install
The title says it all; I was debugging problems with pulseaudio after I had some audio issues. One of the suggestions I encountered was to "reinstall pulse", and so naively I simply did sudo ...
- 1,226
2
votes
1
answer
458
views
How to forward sound from a local audio input (USB from a digital piano) to a remote audio output (via a pulseaudio server)?
I have 2 PCs under Linux Debian (bullseye) :
"pc-piano" : where a digital piano is connected via USB, and which has no local audio output
"pc-desktop" : where my wireless ...
- 93
1
vote
0
answers
641
views
No sound issue in Zorin OS 16.2
I've installed Zorin OS to try it out because it's based on Ubuntu and I like the interface and other things in it but I have a problem. My sound card is recognized by Alsa and activated but I have no ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
396
views
How to connect bluetooth input to Hifiberry using PulseAudio
I connected 2 conventional speakers to a Raspberry Pi 3 using the HiFiBerry AMP2. This works fine with Volumio. Now I want to take it one step further: instead of using Volumio I want to use the ...
- 111
3
votes
1
answer
7k
views
OBS studio won't record audio only
I wanted to record only audio with OBS Studio. So I have created a new scene and added just Audio Capture Device (ALSA). Then I clicked on the Start recording...button. It recorded both screen and ...
- 161
0
votes
1
answer
362
views
Is there a way to control xfce-pulseaudio-plugin (pavucontrol) with command line?
Trying to setup media control shortcuts in Xfce (Play/Pause, Next track). I have xfce-pulseaudio-plugin which use pavucontrol. Is there a way to switch tracks via pavucontrol command line interface? ...
2
votes
1
answer
932
views
What is the Pipewire alternative to the switch-on-port-available Pulseaudio module?
I just set up Pipewire on my system, but there is one thing that bugs me: when I turn off my external DAC, and then turn it back on, Pipewire will not reconnect to it. With Pulseaudio, this issue ...
0
votes
1
answer
692
views
Mono audio output with pulseaudio and alsa on embedded system
I am running an embedded system using pulseaudio and alsa.
I need to downmix all audio inputs to a single mono output.
I have seen other answers that involve modifying /etc/pulse/default.pa like the ...
2
votes
0
answers
284
views
Really loud sound input on PopOS 22.04 on an old Positivo Sim+ laptop
My laptop (Positivo Sim+) is really old, but I never complained about audio input quality when I used Linux. Some BSODs later and a miraculous fix, I got my laptop again and installed Linux on it ...
1
vote
2
answers
375
views
Why is audio streaming harder than video streaming?
I have two separate Linux computers on the same LAN. One computer has speakers, the other computer has a monitor. To play a movie with video and sound I have two options:
Play the movie on the ...
- 959
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Volume issue with pulseaudio on Debian 11
I recently installed new Debian 11 on my desk, my audio devices are managed by pulseaudio and pavucontrol. I mainly use DragonFly red DAC to listen music or something else on Chromium. Everything is ...
user1693038
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Use pulseaudio for remote ssh connection
I am trying to stream pulseaudio sound output over the cloud instance. In my previous question I could not get paprefs to work on Mac OS but it turned out it does not matter as I can set everything by ...
- 5
0
votes
1
answer
155
views
Anything with an MPEG codec plays too fast on Ubuntu
I'm not sure when, why and how it changed, but at a certain moment video and mp3 files started to run faster than usual (witch chipmunk like speech).
I have a Radeon RX550 card which I use for HDMI ...
0
votes
1
answer
3k
views
How to convert a certain program's audio output to mic input
I have Program A and Program B
-I want Program A's Sound output to be received as a Microphone input
-I want Program B's Sound output to be received as a normal sound output
Is there a way i can do ...
0
votes
0
answers
53
views
After Linux OS upgrade audio is 20% quieter - how to get back to previous level?
I just upgraded my OpenSUSE OS and the volume output is not as high as before. I would say it's 20% quieter compared to before the upgrade.
I'm guessing its a matter of selecting the right option for ...
- 111
-1
votes
1
answer
115
views
I'm on Linux and [application] isn't outputting any sound!!! I have my speakers connected, [other application] works fine, but not this one
HELP ME! There's no sound from [application], but [other application] is fine! My volume is up, and it worked before, but it's broken now! (This phrasing is satire, essentially if you're experiencing ...
- 113
0
votes
0
answers
49
views
Only one side of my headphones works
The distro I'm using is Arch, and my headphones are Sony's WH-H910N model. These headphones are connected by a jack rather than using bluetooth, and they work properly with or without this jack on ...
- 1
1
vote
0
answers
277
views
How to output to a virtual sink from Zoom
I'd like to send audio to Zoom from a virtual sink monitor in pulseaudio.
I can see all the sinks/sources in my environment available in Zoom, apart from the one added via module-null-sink. I added it ...
- 589
2
votes
1
answer
6k
views
Combining Selected Applications' Sound With Voice Into Virtual Microphone (Linux)
Sometimes I'll want to share music with friends via Skype, Discord, etc.
I don't want to share the full output of my sound card (which I can do by setting the corresponding monitor as the microphone), ...
- 61
2
votes
1
answer
4k
views
Pulseaudio loopback into headphones
I have headphones and a mic attached to my computer. My headphones are tight and block out external noise far too well, and so I find myself shouting at the mic.
Is there any way of setting up ...
- 270
0
votes
1
answer
268
views
How to stream 1 source to multiple sinks
In picture below, which is sound panel/applet, there are listed all my possible links and HDMI, no idea how that end up there. I'm interested in "Analog Output". There are 3 output profiles:
...
- 583
1
vote
0
answers
855
views
how to use alsa device hw:0 on xubuntu
I have an audio processing sw designed to use alsa's hw:0 device. On my xubuntu machine I get the same error as this command line:
$ aplay -D hw:0 440.wav
aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or ...
- 143
13
votes
3
answers
14k
views
Mono + Mic instead of stereo sound for Bluetooth headphones on Ubuntu
I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu. My headphones either support stereo sound or mono sound with the microphone. So, I cant have a stereo and a microphone on at the same time. In windows, I ...
- 307
1
vote
0
answers
256
views
Tried to run pulseaudio
When I was trying to do this It got me an error on running pactl list | grep Name command.
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with linux deploy and LXDE desktop.
Error:
shared memfd open() failed: Function ...
- 33
1
vote
0
answers
3k
views
Is there a way to improve sound quality in Linux?
Total noob here, I did do some research before posting this question here, been using Linux since long and not satisfied by the audio quality that the Windows Counterpart provides (proprietary Dolby ...
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Audio output in Debian Linux not as good as windows
I use the Behringer Uphoria UMC404HD audio interface headphone output to listen to Spotify on my high-end headphones.
The interface is capable of 192000Hz.
After a Debian installation and tweaking ...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
3k
views
How could I find out what sample rate/bit depth my headphones are capable of?
I'm using some USB headphones (Sennheiser GSP 350) and want to make sure that I am using the highest sample rate and bit depth possible for them. I ran pacmd list-sinks and it said that I'm using 16 ...
- 129
1
vote
1
answer
702
views
Foobar playing too fast in linux wine (pulse audio alsa underrun error)
When running multiple apps under heavy cpu and file transfer load (like rsync), foobar starts playing very fast (like 10x speed).
- 252
2
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Pulseaudio: remap source when usb audio interface is connected
I have Roland UA-22 (Duo Capture Ex) USB audio interface, and by default it presents its two input channels as a single stereo source. However, I want to use them separately as independent sources.
...
- 143
2
votes
0
answers
2k
views
Ffmpeg: Choppy audio when streaming through RTP. Audio and Video sync issues
I am trying to stream video and audio through two separate RTP channels and then retrieve and play them on a client through webRTC and play them in sync. I am able to retrieve the packets on a webRTC ...
- 21
3
votes
2
answers
10k
views
Running pulseaudio in Windows 10 to get audio output in Windows subsystem for Linux Ubuntu
I have installed Ubuntu for Windows subsystem for linux. I would like to get some audio to work in Ubuntu. I have read the following tutorials:
https://research.wmz.ninja/articles/2017/11/setting-...
- 1,701
2
votes
0
answers
650
views
Kubuntu 18.04 KDE Plasma Headset Microphone marked as "unplugged" until manually selected
When connecting a headset with a combined audio+microphone 4 pole connector to my laptop (XPS 15 9570), I cannot get KDE to automatically switch to the headset microphone. When connecting the headset, ...
- 121
5
votes
2
answers
5k
views
How to redirect sound sink to source
I sometimes stream games for my friends on Discord, but Discord for Linux is unable to capture the game sounds. I use Pulseaudio + ALSA combo for my sound needs. I thought of solving this issue by ...
- 242
2
votes
0
answers
447
views
Bluetooth headset auto connect with PulseAudio
Lubuntu 18.04.4 on acer c720
PulseAudio does not do automatic switch to either of my bluetooth headsets when I switch them on.
My ~/.config/pulse/default.pa contains the lines
### Use hot-plugged ...
- 790
1
vote
2
answers
798
views
I cannot create more than 6 Jack Pulseaudio Sinks/Sources, is there a maximum? Only in Manjaro Linux, fine in Ubuntu
I have an audio setup (carried over from Windows) which involves numerous virtual audio sinks/sources, all routed through a DAW, for ducking and filtering, mostly for streams.
To do this on Linux, I'...
- 11
10
votes
9
answers
23k
views
Sound stopped working after upgrading to Linux 5.4 (Intel HD Audio)
After upgrading from Linux 5.3 to Linux v5.4.2 on Arch Linux, all of my audio stopped working. The only thing I see in Gnome 3’s Sound settings is “Dummy Output” and aplay --list-pcm says: “No card(s) ...
- 1,692
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
No Audio output in Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce 64x(Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio soundcard)
I am using a fresh install on my laptop. After setup, there was no audio output and the pavucontrol app was giving me the message:
Establishing connection to PulseAudio. PLease wait
After hours ...
user1117801