Questions tagged [pulse-audio]
PulseAudio is a free cross-platform network sound server.
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How to stream my GNU/Linux audio output to Android devices over WI-FI?
I want to stream my audio output over the network (Wi-Fi) to my Android devices. I'm not looking for a music/video streaming solution, but I would stream any audio output of my GNU/Linux desktop to my ...
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Pulseaudio: how to rescan audio devices?
When adding a USB device to my system (I deliberately run no modern stack for device detection), Pulseaudio can't pickup it without restart (pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio --start).
Is there an option for,...
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Headset microphone not detected by Pulse und Alsa
I have an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro Laptop that only sports a combo jack for both microphone and headphones at the same time. It was always a bit tricky but worked until I reinstalled Arch Linux recently.
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Skype 4.3 without PulseAudio, only ALSA. Any options?
I have been using Skype for over 10 years now, almost since the initial release, and most of my friends/family/colleagues use it too. So switching IM is not an option.
Microsoft has recently changed ...
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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 ...
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Is it possible to route different applications to different audio outputs with Pulse Audio?
Is it possible to route different applications to different audio outputs with Pulse Audio? I'd like my music to be played on my Stereo, but I'd like sound alerts to be played on my notebook speakers. ...
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Pulseaudio Daemon Startup Failed
When running startx on Arch Linux, the error:
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
is returned.
Is there any way to fix this error?
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Streaming audio from Windows to Linux using PulseAudio
I have Linux box with Ubuntu + PulseAudio network server installed. I can stream audio from my laptop (with Linux installed too) to the box over local network.
I've recently installed Windows 7 into ...
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Prevent applications to control master volume on Linux
Whenever I change the volume in VLC, Rhythmbox, or a video on YouTube, it change the master volume, i.e. the system volume. How can I prevent this from happening?
I'm running Debian 7.0.0 (wheezy) ...
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Centralized PulseAudio setup
I want to do a setup, so that all my computers and TV use one audio system. Like this:
Where media server is connected to acoustics and TV is connected through sound-card input and other systems use ...
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List all ALSA devices
I'm using PulseAudio on my system, and I followed the instructions for adding a monitor device as per the PulseAudio wiki. The monitor device itself works and registers/functions properly in apps like ...
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systemd keeps respawning pulseaudio, and doesn't allow me to stop it
So I was trying to stop pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k, but it kept restarting "on its own", even though I have the configuration autospawn = no in place.
I'm pretty sure it's systemd that keeps ...
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Set device for program in PulseAudio?
In computer I have 2 sound devices.
When I run some program (let's say Skype) I can (using "pavucontrol" -> "PulseAudio Volume Control") setup so that this application will use given device for ...
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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) ...
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Pulse Audio settings in XFCE
Almost every common graphical environment, I know, has a program/dialog where you can change the volume of your devices AND of every stream which is playing sound. But I'm not able to find such a ...
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Zoom and Pulseaudio -- audio distortion on audio run through zoom_combine
When hosting a meeting and sharing an application through Zoom on Debian buster, I am getting audio distortion on the clients that connect to the meeting.
I am using zoom 5.2.446620.0816 and have ...
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Stream audio from Windows 7 to Ubuntu
I have an Ubuntu 9.10 (alpha) computer as my primary machine, but also have a Windows machine which I keep my iTunes music on.
My high-quality speaker system is connected to my Ubuntu box. Is there ...
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How to change the sink priority in PulseAudio?
I have multiple output sound devices at home and at work. Especially, I want to automatically play sound via external soundcard when it is connected. So, I need some kind of the sink priorities.
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Enable pulseaudio equalizer only for bluetooth headsets
I'm using pulseaudio with the LADSPA equalizer. I want to enable the equalizer only when my bluetooth headset is connected. The behaviour at the moment is that when I disconnect the headset, the ...
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Pulseaudio high CPU usage
Is it normal that the pulseaudio process has sometimes a CPU usage of ~40%, even without playing audio? The process seems to run in realtime-priority, is that the cause of the problem?
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pavucontrol shows Line-out as unplugged when Headphones are plugged in
I have my speakers plugged in to the Line Out jack. When I plug my headphones into the front headphone jack, the speakers are muted and sound is played in my headphones, as expected. However, when I ...
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How can i can create a virtual pulseaudio soundcard on Linux with no audio hardware?
I have a Docker that's running Alpine Linux. There is no hardware audio device at all.
I've managed to get pulseaudio running seemingly fine under the user.
I've been experimenting with trying to ...
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ALSA PulseAudio sound output when switching between headphones and laptop speaker
Since I installed PulseAudio on my Gentoo system I've been having no audio output from my laptop's speakers when un-plugging the headphones jack.
I suppose the problem lies in how ALSA and PulseAudio ...
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xbindkeys escape quotes
How can I escape quotes in .xbindkeysrc commands? Neither of those work.
"pacmd dump|awk --non-decimal-data '$1~/set-sink-volume/{system ("pacmd "$1" "$2" "$3+2500)}'"
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How to resolve Pulseaudio not attaching a mixer due to missing libraries?
I've been trying to install pulseaudio, and I can't seem to find a straight answer about what to do about ALSA. Does PulseAudio run on top of ALSA? Should I get rid of ALSA first? ALSA is a sound ...
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pulseaudio, in a KVM virtual machine (as root) and your desktop (not root) playing audio at the same time?
How do you get pulseaudio to play sound in a KVM virtual machine (running as root) and your desktop apps (not running as root) at the same time?
It seems that by default, it will only play sound for ...
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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 ...
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Pulseaudio: wait for devices on start?
Based on this guide, I set up pulseaudio on my Raspberry Pi to run in system mode. Here's how my systemd service file looks like:
[Unit]
Description=PulseAudio Daemon
After=sound.target
Requires=...
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Changing default audio device in Pulseaudio
I would like to use HDMI on my graphic card for audio output. ALSA shows it as a card with 4 devices and I can get sound through one of them (the other three are different channels, perhaps? I have ...
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How to subscribe to pulseaudio events from terminal instead of C?
I know that using libpulse one can subscribe to pulseaudio events (volume change, etc.) in a C program. Is there some way that I can achieve this from bash as well?
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pavucontrol level base vs 100%
trying to understand what is pavucontrol doing. On the screenshot you can see that there are volume sliders where one ca nchoose from base or another percent value.
What is the meaning of base. In ...
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Does PulseAudio work on Windows just like on Linux?
When I'm searching something like this on Google all I'm seeing are only pages with keywords [linux, pulseaudio]. I mean ability to configure output stream of one app to be redirected to input stream ...
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Linux decibel (max peak volume) limit
I just watched a movie and had to set the volume level quite high to get audio. I forgot to set the volume to the lower level it was at and started a trance music track and that literally made my ears ...
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Limit PulseAudio volume to prevent overdrive
Is it possible to limit maximum volume in PulseAudio? Currently, PulseAudio sets PCM channel too loud which results in distorted sound. I use aumix to turn volume down, but whenever any other sound is ...
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bluetooth sink does not show in pulseaudio after successful bluetooth device connection
Bluetooth output does not show anymore in pavucontrol "Playback" tab after successful bluetooth device connection and therefore does not output any sound into the bluetooth device.
$ bluetoothctl
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PulseAudio cannot open PCM device
I have an IMX6Q based board and want to game with PulseAudio.
My board has three sound devices:
# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: tlv320aic3xaudi [tlv320aic3x-audio], ...
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Does Linux support audio output via USB?
Several small integrated amplifiers exist with a USB input line.
The ones I have seen so far ship with Windows and OS X drivers.
Does Linux support audio output via USB out-of-the-box?
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Set device when using gst-launch alsasrc
As part of my Sphinx setup, I listen to my input device like this:
gst-launch alsasrc
(Well, the actual command is this: alsasrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! vader name=vad auto-threshold=true ! ...
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How to automatically set PulseAudio default sink to remote server at boot - Ubuntu 9.04
I use the Pulseaudio Device Chooser to set the default sink (on a
laptop) to a remote server. This works fine. When i reboot my laptop,
the default sink reverts back to "default" (the laptop sound ...
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Getting an ALSA program (ChucK) to work with Pulseaudio?
Moving a previous answer to this topic; formulated as a question, it would be:
I'm using ChucK, in particular chuck.alsa, to implement a Command line multitrack audio looper for Linux.
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pulseaudio no sound after su to root, no default audio device configured
This behavior exhibits at least in Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.
I'm playing sounds via the play command from the sox package from the command line. It works fine with me, the user who logs into X. ...
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record application audio only with ffmpeg
I would like to use ffmpeg to use application audio only instead of the whole system audio while screen grabbing. How can I do this if the grabbing command is something like this? By application ...
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pulseaudio: how to set the "configured latency" of a module-tunnel-sink-new
I have a setup at home with a local pulseaudio (the movie player) connecting through module-tunnel-sink-new to a remote pulseaudio server (the speaker). I'd like to lower the latency of this tunnel (...
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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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5.1 Surround sound will not keep its configuration
in pavucontrol I have my output set to Digital Surround 5.1(IEC958/AC3)
When I open a video with VLC (my preferred option) OR GNOME Media player I hear no sound.
VLC is configured to use pulseaudio ...
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How to configure PulseAudio to input/output via ALSA?
How do I configure PulseAudio to use only a single ALSA device for input and output?
The default PulseAudio configuration causes PulseAudio to open all ALSA devices when it starts. This makes it ...
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Pulseaudio daemon won't start inside docker
I'm trying to emulate microphone input for a headless chrome instance, inside a docker container.
Based on Emulating microphone input to Chrome inside Docker container I have the following setup:
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“Connection to pulseaudio failed” - and can't start-pulseaudio-x11 either
I'm using Devuan ASCII (~= Debian Stretch). Audio seems to be work, or at least - playback is working, in my browsers and media players. However, if I try to run pavucontrol to make some settings - ...
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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 ...
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How to make mpv use the pulseaudio volume controls again?
Since some recent update (mpv 0.18.something), mpv has stopped using the pulseaudio volume and instead used a software volume control.
This has downsides such as additional processing, but most ...
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