Questions tagged [audio]
For questions about the recording and playback of speech and music on your computer, as well as for problems about the sound component of videos.
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Extracting Opus from WebM losslessly with FFmpeg or MKVToolNix
I have come across a strange problem when remuxing Opus audio stream from WebM to another container like ogg or opus.
Running the output files through a spectrum analyzer clearly shows that there is ...
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Set audio output priority on OSX
I would like to know how to set priority of Audio Output devices on macOS Sierra. I have an external Dell docking station that I sometimes plug into the USB-C port, and this device has an audio ...
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Which Bluetooth Stack supports APT-X on Windows 7
I'm thinking about buying wireless desktop speakers for ease of use with different audio sources (Notebooks, Mobile Phone etc.). For higher audio quality over the standard A2DP protocol there are ...
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„Windows Background.wav“ played by taskhostw.exe when certain programs are opened
OS: Windows 10 Home 1909 x64, OS build 18363.752
Whenever I open the Control Panel, Windows Background.wav plays once the window has appeared.
It also occurs1 for E1 mod:
upon opening Firefox
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Set default volume for new apps in Windows 10 mixer
My headphones (HyperX Cloud 2) are normally way too loud for most apps with any volume above 10%. However, I want certain apps such as Teamspeak to be 50%. The problem is new apps default to the max/...
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Why don't device and app sound mixers match?
My question is specified in the title, to be more exact I would like to show this particular screenshot of the sound mixer:
As you can see here, the volume of the IE reached the maximum level, but ...
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Can I use my pc as a bluetooth headset with windows 10
This Article worked for me on windows 7 but now That I am using Windows 10 I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. All Hardware is the same only Windows has changed.
Can I use my PC as a ...
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Windows 8.1 Does not Detect Bluetooth Headset
I have the Motorola S11 Flex HD wireless Bluetooth headset which I have had connected to a Windows 8.1 Pro x64 machine with an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 + Bluetooth for Desktop card. This ...
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Reducing volume of an audio device on windows 7
I have a USB headset with a very loud amplifier, but low granularity in its gain control. In order to get comfortable audio, I have to reduce the individual application levels in the mixer to '1', and ...
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Very low latency streaming
I'm looking to stream a live lecture into an overflow lecture theater. I'm planning to stream HD content along with audio from a powerful server with nVidia GeForce GPUs connected to the client via a ...
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Prevent Windows 10 from switching the default audio device when a new one is plugged in
The scenario:
This is how my audio setup looks like:
A headset which I use as default audio device (input & output)
An USB camera that supports audio input apart from video, which I plug in only ...
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Video playback with multiple audio tracks to separate audio devices
I have an mkv file with multiple audio tracks (separate languages) that should be played simultaneously from the same device. That is the video should be played with track #1 on my mac, while audio ...
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Windows 10: Bluetooth headset's media play button doesn't work
I have a JBL E40BT Bluetooth headset. It comes with media controls on the left ear cup, a play/pause button, and a volume up and down (previous and next track is handled by three and two fast presses ...
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Change the Mac notification sound on a per-application basis
By default on Mac OS X there is a system-wide notification sound that you can choose. This sound is applied to every application and played whenever the application outputs a beep (for instance, when ...
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Windows 10 audio fades out
I'm having an issue with Windows 10 audio: when listening to something/watching a movie the audio automatically fades out and drops to a lower volume. To be clear, the volume indication in Windows ...
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Put loudness of many video files to the same level
I have a bunch of video files, and in some videos the sound is loud, in the others—not. So a user has to change the volume of her player when she watches these videos in the playlist. I want to ...
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How can I mix and map sound channels in Windows?
The built-in windows mixer, which can be accessed through Volume Control, allows users to change the output volumes of individual applications. I would like something similar but with additional ...
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How do I access the *remote* microphone in a RDP session?
I'm doing some remote testing of a system. I have an external camera/mic as well as the built-in laptop camera/mic. Using an Remote Desktop session, I can see into the lab, but I'd like to hear it ...
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Chrome update v75 adds an obnoxious black box when adjusting volume in Windows
After Chrome updated to v75 recently, I found that anytime I changed volume using the volume keys on my computer, I got this large, annoying, black box next to my volume window:
I found out that you ...
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Force refresh of audio devices on windows 10
Whenever I turn off my TV, it disappears from my audio output on Windows 10, and when I turn the TV back on it remains gone.
I can make it come back by right clicking on the speaker icon and running "...
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Bose QuietComfort 35 stopped connecting to Windows 10
I have a Bose QuietComfort 35 and it used to able to use it on my Windows 10 PC over an aplic bluetooth dongle.
Unfortunately, it stopped working. It's not possible anymore to switch from my ...
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Why is there static in my Hyper-V Virtual Machine's sound output?
I have a Windows 10 64-bit virtual machine running on a Windows 10 64-bit host machine.
When the virtual machine outputs sound, "static" or crackling noises can be heard.
The host machine is using a ...
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Ubuntu headset with single p3 input - When mic is on headphone is off
I have a single P3 input on my notebook and i bought a headset to use both the headphone and the mic.
When i go to sound settings and set the sound input to be the headset mic the headset phone does ...
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FFmpeg mp3 file header restore
I got mp3 files without headers, ffmpeg -i shows:
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[mp3 @ 003e9700] Header missing
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They sound well, but not in all players. So how can I restore header info or re-pack file without re-...
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Adding audio to video being created with image2pipe option
I am creating a video in mp4 format from a sequence of images and an MP3 audio file.
For performance reasons I switched from image2 option to image2pipe option and now video is creating OK but without ...
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How to properly concaternate two audio files together?
I ripped two Blu-rays and I'm trying to combine the audio from both into one file. I've decoded it from DTS-HD MA to Wave64, and I used avisynth to remove the black screen audio (4 seconds) from the ...
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How can I disable automatic Windows 7/8/10 audio ducking?
Windows, apparently, has a built-in audio ducking feature which is very annoying (to me at least). When two or more audio sources are playing and the maximum audio volume exceeds 100% the OS applies a ...
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How do you remove Audio input/output devices on mac?
During my attempt to route audio from the system to a audio device that has the system audio and mic audio, I now have many audio devices that I wish to remove, the un-installers on the programs didn'...
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Audio problems with some applications under Linux
I’m experiencing very annoying audio problems with some specific applications under Linux (I'm using openSUSE Tumbleweed). I've only noticed this with some games at the moment (but I’m not sure if ...
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Accessing Docker's volume using WinSCP
I have 2 Ubuntu 20.04.1 machines with Docker installed.
I would like to access the content of Docker volumes using WinSCP.
i.e. access the path /var/lib/docker/volumes/my_vol_name/_data
which is fully ...
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No internal speaker sound on linux with lenovo legion 7i (ALC287) only when jack is connected
I've been trying different options to try to get sound working on the internal speakers of my lenovo legion 7i on linux.
A few things to consider:
Sound card is recognized (screenshot will be shown ...
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Prevent Windows from muting audio when locking screen
I have a Windows 10 v2004 laptop. I haven't installed any custom programs except Chrome, Notepad++, Steam, Spotify, Skype, Discord, and Bitwarden, all at their default settings.
I have a SteelSeries ...
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Is it possible to find piece of audio inside of mp3 file?
We have a community radio and we are recording all shows 24/7. And we are wondering is there any way to automatically trim those recordings so that all commercials and unwanted parts are cutted off ...
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How to remap channels of AC3 stream within .mkv or .mp4? (ffmpeg, 3f2m/lfe - > 3f2r/lfe)
So this is my problem, I've backed up quite a number of DVDs and a few Blu-Ray discs to .mkv files for archival purposes, and for my plex server. I used:
x264 for video
ac3 for audio (for ...
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Linux bluetooth audio issues. No working mic/sound via HSP
Running crunchbang++ ( debian 9 ). MPOW-059 bluetooth headphones.
Bluetooth device: Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0a5c:21e8 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0
If I connect them via a2dp sink I ...
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"Force" Bluetooth headphones to change connected device under Windows 10
This feels like one of those, "Yea, that's just how Bluetooth works" questions, but in the year 2018 I'm holding out hope that there's a better answer.
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones, and they'...
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ffmpeg reduce background noise
Audacity has a great noise reduction process that I've found works very well: select a "quiet" sample section of audio, choose Effects>Noise Reduction>Get Noise Profile. Then select whole stream, ...
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Check for damaged file mp3, m4a (aac) in Linux
I have around 15,000 music files stored on Ubuntu server (16.04), around 50% FLAC, 25% each mp3 and m4a (aac).
I think maybe 3-5% are corrupted due to HDD hardware failure. The problems accumulated ...
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Set Bluetooth audio device to always use AD2P on Linux
I have a bluetooth speaker that works perfectly on my Arch Linux, but whenever I connect it's in HSV and I must manually set the protocol to A2DP.
How can I make it always use AD2P by default on ...
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How to convert stereo to right-channel mono on Windows 8?
I'm deaf on left side and I only can hear on right side. I have problems with videos that output in left channel or stereo, making it very difficult to hear.
I discovered that I couldn't convert all ...
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FFMPEG generate audio based on video motion
I have an IP camera with video only. I'd like to generate audio to go along with the video. The audio volume would be determined by the amount of motion in the scene.
Sine wave generation:
https://...
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Windows 10 Volume Mixer fails to keep System Sounds muted over Remote Desktop Connection
After having muted the System Sounds on the remote desktop machine, it shall unmute itself after several seconds. This pattern is persistent.
I use my laptop at work, and use Remote Desktop Connection ...
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Windows 10 HDMI video lag, no sound
I have this issue with Windows 10. I have used the same setup with Windows 8.1 without any problems.
The first thing I've noticed, is that there is no sound over HDMI. I'm using a Philips 5500 series ...
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How play multiple audio files located on smartphone through Windows 7?
When I connect my LG Optimus F3Q to my Windows 7 PC, it connects in "Media sync (MTP)" mode. I can get into the file structure of the phone and its SD card through Windows Explorer and double click ...
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Can I use wired and wireless headphones in the same time?
I have a bluetooth headphones which work with my windows 8 machine. I want both: wired and wireless headphones to work in the same time. But if wireless headphones device is connected to a machine, ...
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Repair OGG files that have been extracted without a header
I have recently used a tool called FSBextractor to extract audio from a videogame. The program warns me that the files do not have headers and will not be playable. Upon extraction, the files are ...
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How to find out when an audio disc (CD) has been written/burned?
Is there a way/tool to determine the date and time when an audio disc (CD) has been written/burned?
I am aware of How to find out when a disc (DVD) has been written/burned? but the accepted solution ...
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mix audio with h264 mp4 video with ffmpeg
I have 2 files :
Input #0, wav, from '105426_1.wav':
Duration: 00:00:09.98, bitrate: 1312 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 41000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1312 kb/s
and:
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Windows 8 audio stutters. DPC Latency high on tcpip.sys
I own a Intel Core i5 760 CPU based PC. 16Gb of RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7850, Asus Xonar DSX audio card, and a Creative Sound Blaster Sigma headset (with USB audio device). It's just to enumerate all my ...
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Can I set the default application sound level in Windows 7?
I've got a set of Logitech S150 USB speakers which have a problem with sound levels. Basically there seems to be only two levels (completely silent or ear-splittingly loud) and no middle ground.
Some ...
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