Questions tagged [sound-card]
A computer device for inputting and outputting audio.
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How to make Alsa pick a preferred sound device automatically?
I bought an USB sound card. I'd like to set up my Linux desktop so that it prefers the USB device, if it is plugged in and automatically switches as the device is (un)plugged. Is it possible, and how?
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Headphone volume is way too loud in windows 10 even with an external usb sound card [duplicate]
I have a pair of Bose QC2 headphones and the volume is WAY too loud in windows on all jacks:
I have tried the following jacks:
speaker out on back of motherboard
headphone out
external USB sound ...
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Is there a difference between speaker and headphone jacks/ports?
I have a 2.1 speaker setup going into my computer, but primarily plug them into the headphone jack as it is easier to access. I do this because I switch between a couple different devices with these ...
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What is Stereo Mix supposed to be used for in Windows?
I have added Stereo Mix to my recording devices on my laptop running Windows 7 after I have installed the driver for my soundcard (the sound was working until then with the driver from Microsoft, but ...
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How to make Raspberry Pi use an external USB sound card as a default
Does anyone know how to change the sound card boot priority?
All tutorials are telling me to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, but the file is missing in Raspbian Jesse.
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How does a sound card determine if headphones are plugged in?
This is actually two questions in one.
First, how do soundcards (the cheap ones) "detect" whether the headphones are plugged in? By measuring resistance or by some other technique?
Second, can I ...
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I am hearing my screen
Today I installed sound card drivers of my motherboard (Asus P6T SE), and now I have started hearing the things that are happening on my screen. When I scroll, or change windows, basically cause a ...
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How to record what's playing on the soundcard using FFmpeg?
I am trying to record what's playing on my soundcard in Windows 8.1
I ran the following to determine what devices I have:
ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy
The output listed:
DirectShow ...
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How should I decide on a default audio format? [closed]
I see that Windows sets the default output format at 16-bit, 44100 Hz (CD Quality).
Most of my music is in this format, but most of my movies use a 16-bit at 48 KHz format (named DVD quality in the ...
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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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Virtual sound card driver for Windows
I have no sound card on my machine, but I want to (automatically) record screen with audio on it. So I thing it's some kind of virtual sound card driver needed to loop back sound send to play to ...
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What is using my sound card?
A couple weeks ago my speakers stopped working. When I reboot, they work perfectly. But eventually some mysterious, and I suspect nefarious, piece of software takes control. (On a related note, ...
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Windows 7 laptop's volume with headphones way too loud
I have two headphones, neither has any amps or volume control, and both have the same problem with this computer. I normally have the volume on 10%, and that is optimal. I'm still very afraid that ...
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How can I make Chromium use a different ALSA device?
I need one instance of Chromium on Linux to target a different sound card than the default, including Flash. Is there anyway to do this easily?
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No digital audio output with Asus Xonar DG
I've purchased an Asus Xonar DG as replacement for faulty onboard audio in a Medion 8822 as it has an optical output which is all I really need to feed my HTPC.
I uninstalled the previous drivers/...
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How to restart audio without rebooting (USB soundcard) - the nasty case
I have a very similar problem to this: Is there a way to restart audio without restarting a Windows 7 computer?
I've got a USB external sound card (Line6 UX1, the older one), the OS is Windows 7 x64. ...
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Realtek "Microphone Effects" no longer working
I have a mic plugged into my computer, and I was able to use the "microphone effects" tab here to enable/disable noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation.
Noise suppression off and acoustic ...
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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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How to force Windows 7 to output 5.1 Surround?
I'm running Windows 7 SP1 x64 on an ASUS M2N4-SLI, which has a coaxial digital audio output (see my profile for more HW info - it's system PC1).
How do I force Windows 7 to output 5.1 Surround to my ...
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What other application is using my sound card?
First off, if the answer to this is simply "you can't," I'm okay with that.
That said - in Windows 7, I open the properties of the audio out on my sound card, change the default format from 16 bit to ...
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Any use for a sound card these days?
In the past Ive always brought dedicated sound cards for my computers, however these days most motherboards have some sort of audio support built in, in fact many even are capable of surround sound, ...
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Is there a foolproof way to detect if my sound card supports 5.1 surround sound?
Not sure if this is a very basic question for this community, but I am finding it real hard to determine if the sound card in my computer supports 5.1 speakers?
The Device Manager -> Sound, Video and ...
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Hook two computers to one speaker?
Is it OK to take the line-out from the audio card on two computers, hook them up to a y-adapter that finally goes to a single pair of speakers? I would just go ahead and try it, but don't want to ...
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Is it possible to toggle disabled/enabled devices from Command Line, simlar to Device Manager?
I like to play Fallout 3 which is very buggy normally, and even more so once I've added some mods. Needless to say, it crashes a lot. I can deal with the crashes, the only problem is when it does my ...
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Sharing soundcard to network
Let's suppose I have a laptop (L) and desktop PC (D), both with Windows 7 onboard.
It is SB X-Fi extreme soundcard with rather good 5.1 home theater connected. But it is not comfortable to watch ...
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How can I limit the volume of audio on Windows by decibel level?
I enjoy listening to music at high volumes, but I'm concerned about possible long-term hearing loss. Articles covering this question suggest limiting audio volume to under 85 decibels.
Is there:
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What is the 15-pin black port that old sound cards have? [duplicate]
What is the 15-pin black port that old sound cards have? Here is an example
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SoX on 64-bit Windows - how to chose output device
I have created 3 virtual sound devices using VAC and now i want to start 3 sox instances and make every instance use a separate sound device for output when playing a wav file.
Command sox.exe file....
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Is it possible without setting up a system-wide pulse server to mix audio output from multiple processes owned by different users on Linux?
Is it possible without setting up a system-wide pulse server to mix audio output from multiple processes owned by different users on Linux?
I have no trouble mixing audio when all the processes are ...
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Disable Windows sound card jack sensing
I have a sound card that is able to sense what jacks are plugged in where. The problem is that it keeps detecting my speakers on and off (they come and go randomly).
Last time I had this problem I ...
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EAX sound effects and hardware acceleration of old games under Windows Vista and Windows 7
I've read that Windows Vista and 7 stopped supporting hardware acceleration (which included support for EAX sound effects) of DirectSound/DirectX Audio. Many of the old games (most of them released in ...
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Route sound over SSH
I want to play the sound from my current machine on a remote machine. Both machines have SSH installed, so SSH seems like a good option (if that's even possible). If not, I could alternatively use ...
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Quiet Sound while recording using the "Stereo Mix" option on Windows XP
I'm trying to record some of my work, and the video capture program I'm using works fine. It's HyperCam2, and since it's not really professional, I don't care about that little thing in the corner. ...
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Enhancements Tab on Windows 11
I am having issues on my Lenovo ThinkPad E490 laptop running Windows 11. Trying to plug a set of plug and play headphones via the 3.5 mm jack the sound comes out of them but not at the expected ...
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X-Fi XtremeGamer under Windows 10
So, I have a Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeGamer, and I've installed Windows 10 on my machine. Everything seems to work ok, except that I have no sound. I noticed on the Creative website that they expect to ...
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Noise coming from HDD or CPU in headphones
I hear weird high sounds coming from my headphones. It is obvious that it has something to do with HDD or CPU because it's highlight sounds are heard when I it is writing data on HDD but also many ...
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Sound card is switching output (headphones/speakers)
I have HP ProBook 5320m with Realtek Sound Card. I'm running here Windows 7 64bit. Everything seems to be fine until I start using 2 or more apps, which plays any sound to soundcard output.
My ...
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What is constantly using my audio device?
My PC Asus Windows 7 laptop doesn't go to sleep automatically. Here's what is causing it, I guess:
powercfg -requests
DISPLAY:
None.
SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] Realtek High Definition Audio (HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&...
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This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
My audio card won't work from this morning.
Problem: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
What can I do?
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How do I test if my laptop sound card has multiple outputs available?
I want to have two sound output sources from my laptop. I can either use two sound cards, or have one with multiple outputs.
How can I test if my sound card supports it already?
Then it seems that ...
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Sound card / microphone impedance mismatch
First of all I'm not completely sure this is impedance mismatch, but from what I found on the Internet I believe it is. It seems to be a common problem. The question is not as much about solving the ...
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Crackling Audio issues on LACK of CPU load
I have been trying to track down an intermittent crackling audio issue for YEARS now to no avail. I've checked DPC, memory pagefiles, etc... back when I was running Win7 -- which also had the issue (...
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identify which process is outputting sound
My computer periodically makes a random ding (among other sounds), and I can't figure out the source.
Suggestions on SU include
using bar indicators in the volume mixer to look for the source. This ...
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Automatic switching between "digital output" (HDMI) and built-in speakers in Vista
We occasionally connect my wife's laptop, which runs Vista, to our TV. Whenever we do this we have to manually switch the default audio output to "digital output" for the sound to go through the HDMI ...
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crackeling sound issue
Alright so has this sound problem that has just recently resurfaced it ugly head. I never did figure out what the problem was before, it just randomly disapeared when i started overclocking. Drove me ...
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Using front panel jacks with a sound card
I have a relatively modern computer system, in which I have installed an ancient PCI sound card which I recovered from a defunct system. Despite being over ten years old, the sound card is still ...
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Sound card doesn't work with Intel S2600CW server motherboard
I am trying to add sound to a custom built workstation with an Intel S2600CW motherboard; the “vanilla” S2600CW model. This motherboard does not have any built-in sound (for security reasons?), so I ...
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Turn 5.1 (or 7.1) sound card into 3(4) distinct stereo outputs
I'm planning a whole house sound system, but I don't make that much money. (I've already looked at some of the pro systems, and none of them quite do what I want, but that's another article)
What I ...
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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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How can I "record" sound directly from an audio file?
What is the easiest way to route an audio output (e.g. a playing song) into the recording input of another application (e.g. discord's microphone input)?
I'm looking for a solution that is ...
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