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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Win11 suddenly plays 'She', cannot find responable Application
My Computer is suddenly playing the song 'She' in an endless loop (54 sec. loop time). This is worrying as I want to be sure that I am not hacked. She could refer to the movie 'She' as well....
I just ...
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Audio interface huge blast of distortion every couple seconds to minute
for the past year I've been having trouble with audio through audio interfaces. Scarlette solo 2nd gen and then a Scarlette solo 3rd gen (one after the other). Every couple seconds when sound is going ...
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Windows 10, Volume does not change unless audio is playing
I am using a sony bluetooth headset and when I press the buttons on the headset to increase or decrease the volume. It does not change unless there is audio playing on my PC.
How can I change it so ...
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Bluetooth keeps disconnecting my headset
I have a headset that I use most of the day. For some reason, it, or the bluetooth service itself keeps disconnecting the device. Sometimes I can reconnect, but other times the bluetooth & other ...
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Aggregate audio device can't record voice call
I am using Blackhole on a Mac. Typically I wear headphones during a Zoom meeting or a voice call (like WeChat). Wired or wireless headphones do not make any difference as far as I have tried.
In the ...
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Change Default Master Volume Control to "PCM" in alsamixer on Linux Mint
I am running Linux Mint and whenever I use my system's hardware volume controls (e.g., volume up/down buttons), it adjusts the "PCM 1" level in alsamixer. However, I want it to adjust the &...
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how to run flatpak app without audio output
I'm using a flatpak app whose desktop notifications I find useful in general, but too loud and annoying to endure all day long. It's an electron app showing up as "Chromium" in my OS's sound ...
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Change sound output device to different version of the same device
I have some wirless bluetooth headphones.
How can I change between the different output version of this same device that shows up twice in my Playback devices.
I want to connect to the other version ...
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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:
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Temporary disconnection of wireless headset mutes VLC's (and only VLC's) audio until VLC is rewound. How to debug?
When I am wearing my wireless headset and I walk outside of its range for just a moment (enough for me to not be able to hear the audio, but not enough for a permanent wireless disconnect), VLC will ...
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windows 10 Audio Bug - Red x on speaker icon
I'm having a red x on speaker icon. I know few manual way to fix this but this is not permanent solutions. I have to try these steps every time I reboot the PC.
This is a bug that has been reported ...
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Is it posssible to edit display settings for CLI/in Code for Windows 11?
I want to be able to have presets for display/audio settings.
For example
Gaming-TV: Go show only the TV as primary and send the audio too.
Normal-PC: Show 1 monitor primary, other as secondary, also ...
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FFMPEG: Cannot record audio when using android_camera on Android mobile device or emulator
I am attempting to livestream video and audio to my local network from a mobile Android device as a use case for the company I work for.
After searching around, I was able to create a video stream ...
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Very slow and laggy video playback when the sound is directed through HDMI to 4K TV as second monitor
I have a very strange problem with a relatively new PC with Core i5-13600K @3.90GHz. At least two web browsers are playing video extremely slow (1-2 FPS) when sound is directed to the 4K TV LG.
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USB-Speakers goes to sleep, causing a delay everytime a sound/notification is played
I bought a USB speaker. That is a speaker with only one USB connector. No 3.5mm.
The problem is that for normal desktop use, where I don't have any background music playing, the plings and plongs for ...
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How to 'mimic' reconnecting HDMI cable from linux?
Occasionally, my Ubuntu 20.04 machine 'forgets' that it should output audio through the HDMI cable; in fact, the "Output" tab in the "Sound Preferences" does not mention the HDMI ...
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ffmpg voice + base - base must end when the entry with the cut at the beginning ends
I'm experimenting with a bat command to manage audio tracks.
My goal is to create tracks with vocals and music for a podcast. I managed to mix the file which contains only one recording of the voice, ...
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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 ...
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How do I record one specific application audio? [duplicate]
Basically what is happening right now is I 'm running a Shure SM7b through an GoXLR mixing table that let me put discord for example on of the mixer called Voice Chat, and my video game are going ...
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ffmpeg concat without reencoding keeps audio in one order but not the other
So I took a video and cut it two ways, one with reencoding and one
without reencoding, call them R and C (cut). Im trying to do
concatenation without reencoding, and I'm able to concat the video in
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No sound on any Linux distro
I seem to have no audio input or output, but Bluetooth headphones work. Interestingly, pulseaudio reports as though sound was being played when playing a YouTube video. This problem persists across ...
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Check difference between channels in stereo audio and extract one of them
I have a recording device that produces "almost mono" files - where the left and right audio track differ by negligible amounts.
This answer tells me how to extract the left channel.
ffmpeg ...
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How can I get pc speaker audio out into iphone mic in as cheaply as possible?
I am trying to use my Shure sm7b as the microphone for my VOIP calls on my iphone. The app I use for VOIP calls is only available on iOS. I have an adapter to connect my Focusrite Solo audio interface ...
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FFmpeg only exports audio, but not video
I'm using the following FFmpeg script to cut part of video and save it:
#!/bin/bash
# Input parameters
input_video=$1
start_time=$2
end_time=$3
output_video=$4
# Calculate duration
duration=$(echo &...
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How can I allow the access to the microphone to Google Voice on Chrome?
I use Google Voice on Chrome 117 on Windows 10. I am trying to make a call. Google Voice says I need to "allow mic access" in Chrome, which I thought I already did. How can I allow the ...
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Play sound when pressing keyboard shortcut in Windows 10
I want to play a sound (from a sound file I have) when I press a shortcut in Windows 10. Is that possible ? Maybe using some third party software ?
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Visualising/testing Audio Normalization
I have been using FFMPEG to Normalize my music library using
-af loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-1.5:LRA=11:measured_I=-27.2:measured_TP=-14.4:measured_LRA=0.1:measured_thresh=-37.7:offset=-0.7:linear=true
I feel ...
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Change sample rate in OggOpus metadata (48 kHz to 44.1 kHz) without re-encoding
I have many Opus encoded files that play high pitched in any player because somewhere in the metadata they are marked as 48 kHz (or unmarked but assumed to be 48 kHz) but are in fact 44.1 kHz. If I ...
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The Left Headphone channel distrorted (bit crush and drop outs) at maximum volume
The left channel at max volume. If I lower it under 50 it works fine.
I can't use my 2.0 loudspeaker because of this. Does anybody know how I can possibly fix this?
New HP Laptop 15s, Windows 10, ...
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How to change the pitch but keep the speed FFMPEG
Since I already know how to use the asetrate code to change both pitch and sound, however, I would like to find out of how can I only just change the pitch but retain the original speed. Can anyone ...
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Support for Windows audio drivers on a Chromebook
I am running Windows on a Levono Ideapad 3 Chromebook and I cant find an audio driver without paying for it. Does anybody know how I can find a driver?
Specs:
Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU @ 1.10GHz
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How to reroute line-in of one sound card to line-out of another one on LINUX
Well, what the title says. I want to reroute the line-in (mic) of an on-board soundcard, to the line-out of a USB-connected one - ON LINUX. I have tried with JACK2 and jack_connect but I think it ...
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VLC media player installation on RHEL 9
Please help me to install VLC media player on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. I tried these installation steps, but they failed.
I tried to skip few packages during the installation too, but I could not ...
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Redirect audio input and output with Zoom and Telegram
On my Windows 10 machine I join to a Zoom meeting and talk to persons A and B and at the same time do a Telegram call and talk to person C. Is there a way to redirect audio input and output to make ...
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Why is my audio no longer working after disconnecting HDMI?
Recently when I connect my laptop with Windows 10 to my tv through HDMI and then disconnect it, I no longer have any sound until I restart my computer.
I have tried restarting the audio service in ...
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Is there a way to right-click Windows taskbar icons (minimized or not) and mute/unmute them?
Is there a native way or a 3rd-party app that allows me to right-click taskbar icons, minimized or not, and get a mute/unmute button for them at the subsequent dropdown menu that follows (the one that ...
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how can I recover sound on Linux Mint
I had 5.1 sound enables and working plus headphones were working. after system updates the sound is gone.
alsamixer shows 2 cards 0: HDMI and 1: Intel PCH.
my 5.1 is plugged in to the three holes in ...
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Overwrite parts of audio stream using FFmpeg (or DaVinci Resolve)
FFmpeg
I have a video of a funeral ceremony, speech interspersed with three pieces of music of a couple minutes each. Audio quality is sufficient for speech, but it would be nice to have the music ...
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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 ...
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Do the Realtek Audio drivers have anything to do with USB headset volume?
I have three entries in my Windows 10s Device Manager that have Realtek in their label:
I'm trying to troubleshoot a long-lasting audio issue with the volume of my USB headset speakers (the USB PnP ...
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How to disable inbuilt speakers while using earphones?
The earphones are using a cord on the jack at the front. To get it work I had to disable autodetect. Autodetect was only working on the mic jack.
But now sound comes out of the inbuilt speaker and ...
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Headset volume randomly changes to loudest setting despite Windows 10 saying it's at 2%
There are a lot of similar questions to mine, but I haven't found any describing mine exactly:
The most popular question I found is Windows 10 volume randomly jumps to 100% but that answer (a RealTek ...
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Windows 11 - Disabled sound output device keeps reappearing
I have two sound output devices I want: headphones and speakers.
My problem is that I have a third sound output device that keeps popping up even though I disabled it: The monitor. It will show up ...
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Windows 10 Sound Mixer: Is it normal for only speakers to show activity?
I can open a cmd.exe terminal in windows 10 and echo ^G to make the terminal beep. When I do this, the Windows 10 sound mixer shows activity for my speakers (first column), but NOT anywhere else.
I ...
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Going round in circles with ffmpeg concat and filter_complex
Since I've 'flipped' my classroom I'm trying to work out the ffmpeg command that will concat a set of m4a audio files with a set of matching static PNGs to create a pre-recorded talk.
I have no issues ...
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Custom Text-To-Speech Narrator voices for Windows Screen Reader
I've been messing around a bit with TorToiSe TTS a bit recently and have realized that Windows 11 has a built-in screen reader function for people with vision impairment. I was wondering if there was ...
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Delay in audio signal being sent to headphones (Windows 10/Realtek Audio/3.5mm jack)
When I first plug in headphones (any headphones) to the 3.5mm jack, the sound is very tinny and distant with no bass; after maybe 30 seconds it corrects itself and the normal signal with the bass ...
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Music playback is breaking up in Windows 10 but does not affect online meetings
When a playing back video on a Dell Latitude 5410 running Windows 10, audio will often break up (stutter) when I am doing some other stuffs. e.g. using the browser, etc.
This happens even if I am ...
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FFMPEG Lossless
How can I make a video still image + sound (audio file) lossless with ffmpeg? I want the still image video to sound just like the audio track/file if its possible, I dont want any transcoding. Also, I'...
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Windows 10 System sound won't let me play Test button
So, I have my brand-new Sony headphones in my house, I used Windows 10 on my HP laptop, so the system sound of Windows 10 won't let me play the/a Test button.
I go to the Start menu, Control Panel >...
