Questions tagged [pulseaudio]
Questions related to PulseAudio, the default sound server in Ubuntu, which manages all audio devices like internal and external sound cards (and therefore all speakers, microphones, headsets, etc.) through its ALSA backend.
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Is there another way to restart the sound system if pulseaudio/ALSA don't work?
I was listening to music, and my sound suddenly went dead in all my applications. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, which uses pulseaudio, so I tried sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart, but nothing happened. ...
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How can I restart pulseaudio without having to logout?
Sometimes the pulseaudio service stops and it doesn't restart itself when I open an audio file with banshee or totem.
How I can make pulseaudio start again without having to logout?
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Is there any Sound enhancers/equalizer?
What I am looking for is to have system wide implementation of sound enhancements like bass boosts, echoes, Fidelity, Stereo enhancement and so on.
Audio Video players have their own equalizer but ...
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How can I change the default audio device from command line?
Ubuntu's desktop gui is great for changing audio settings (System->Preferences->Sound), like the default input/output device and setting the volume.
However, I would like to be able to do these ...
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Play sound through two or more outputs/devices
I have one sound card and one pair of Bluetooth headphones. I want to play my audio through both my sound card and my Bluetooth headphones.
I believe Windows has checkboxes that allow you to "...
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Realtime noise-removal with PulseAudio?
Is it possible to do realtime noise-removal with PulseAudio, so the sound output that's coming out is smoother?
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Headphone jack not working?
I have a Dell Studio XPS 1647 and headphones do not work (though , internal speakers work like a charm) , I have dual boot Windows 7 and headphones work perfectly fine ...
I also tried -adding in ...
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Terminal command to set audio volume?
I have an external sound card which mostly works fine, except that when its first plugged in, or when I turn on my laptop, the volume gets set to 100%. That is, the overall system volume, as shown in ...
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Bluetooth headset with poor sound quality on Ubuntu
I've bought a Philips SHB4000 headset (phone+mic) wireless (bluetooth) and It has a good quality when I pair it with my phone or PC Windows but when I pair it with the same PC on Ubuntu (14.10 64 bits)...
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How to disable microphone from auto adjusting its input volume
I want to disable the way the microphone lowers itself depending on the input. Here is an image:
The microphone started at 100% and slowly started to drop to where the image is showing. This is ...
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How do you mute from the command line?
How do you mute the sound system from the command line?
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Bluetooth - Connection Failed: blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedError: Protocol Not available
I'm trying to add a BlueParrott B-250XT+ bluetooth headset on a Thinkpad X230 tablet running Ubuntu 16.04 with its hardware bluetooth adapter.
The adapter works - meaning it detects/sees the headset. ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 no sound out of Bluetooth headphones
This is on a machine I upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 a few days ago. No issues at all getting sound to play out of headphones on 18.04.
The headphones are paired with Bluetooth. I unpaired and ...
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How can I tell if I'm using alsa or pulse-audio by default? (Switching to i3-wm)
I might not be understanding the core concept, in which case correct me if I'm wrong.
Ubuntu comes with two different audio rendering servers, pulse and alsa. Is Alsa an intermediary layer to pulse? ...
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How to change pulseaudio sink with "pacmd set-default-sink" during playback?
I need to switch the pulseaudio server of a currently playing audio stream.
Pulseaudio server is set up with IP 192.168.1.105
$>cat /etc/pulse/default.pa
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load-module module-esound-protocol-...
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What is the relation between ALSA and PulseAudio sound architecture?
Well, this confuses me for a long time. As far as I know, ALSA is a package of many sound card drivers, and PulseAudio is a audio application that operate the sound data like mixing or equalizer.
But ...
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Get rid of 0.5s latency when playing audio over Bluetooth with A2DP
As described in the title I experience a half a second delay when playing audio over Bluetooth with A2DP.
This makes watching movies not possible as the sound is not synchronised with the video.
I'm ...
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How do I start pulseaudio-equalizer?
I just installed pulseaudio-equalizer on my Ubuntu 17.10 following the answer here with:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
When I want to start the application I get:
$ pulseaudio
E: [...
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bluetooth headset connects but not showing in sound settings
I was able to listen with my BT headset, but suddenly, one day, it disappeared from sound settings forever!
I've even re-paired my headset (and its connected already) but it doesn't have any options ...
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Record a program's output with PulseAudio
I would like to record an output of a program with PulseAudio using command line/bash script. It is important not to record all output, but only the output from one specific program.
I thought I ...
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A2DP on PulseAudio - terrible choppy/skipping audio
I have paired my Bluetooth headset with my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop with a Bluetooth chip inside:
lsusb | grep Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for ...
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How to use JACK and Pulseaudio/ALSA at the same time on the same audio device?
Whenever I launch hydrogen it breaks my audio in all other applications which use Pulse, for example, I can no longer play videos in Chrome after having launched Hydrogen once, until I restart my PC ...
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Headset microphone not working on Ubuntu 20.04
When I'm speaking with my internal microphone and I connect my headset, it's not detecting the microphone on it. Thing that does not happen in Windows, also didn't happen in Ubuntu 18.04
Any ...
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Stop sound from speakers when connecting headphones
The problem is that I can hear the sound from my laptop's speakers even if I plugged in my headphones. Headphones is just standard stereo headphones. And the most interesting thing is that all was ...
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How do I set up live audio streams to a DLNA compliant device?
Is there a way to stream the live output of the soundcard from our 12.04.1 LTS amd64 desktop to a DLNA-compliant external device in our network? Selecting media content in shared directories using ...
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No sound output devices listed after upgrade from 21.10 to 22.04
Problem: No sound after upgrade from ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 (using development release) both built in speakers and hdmi output.
Some background: running on ubuntu 21.04, I noticed that my sound was not ...
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How to temporarily disable PulseAudio while running a game under Wine?
Just wondering if there a way to temporarily disable PulseAudio as I am trying to run a specific Wine game (Left 4 Dead 2) and it makes the game crash occasionally.
If I kill the process it ...
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PulseAudio fails to set card profile to 'a2dp_sink'. How can I see the logs and figure out whats wrong?
I have currently installed ubuntu 16.04 and a2dp used to work on fresh install, which I'd prefer to leave as a last option. When the pairing is erased from bluetooth settings and is paired again ...
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PulseAudio can not load bluetooth module
I am having trouble connecting my Bluetooth speakers with a fresh 15.10 install (EDIT: applies to 16.04 as well). The speakers are connected however they are not listed as an available audio device.
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Skype and VLC sounds sizzling, distorted, bad, crackling
I have the same problem as described in the questions skype notification sounds sizzled and bad sound on login to skype. But it is not only the login, notification, but also when talking to somebody. ...
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Why am I getting this "Connection to PulseAudio failed" error?
I have a computer that runs Mythbuntu 12.04. It has an external USB Kenwood Digital Audio device.
When I open up pavucontrol, I get this message:
If I do as the message suggests and run start-...
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Command to mute and unmute a microphone
During voice / video conversations I would like to mute/unmute the microphone without having to go through all these steps each time:
Sound indicator, Sound preferences, Select Input, Mute or unmute ...
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How to record any internal sound in and out using Ubuntu and Audacity
How cna I record any internal sound like mic in and speaker out from the same PC running Ubuntu, using Audacity or something else?
For example under Windows it can be done like this (I want to do ...
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Missing sound volume icon on screen top (14.04)
I have recently installed a fresh ubuntu 14.04. But the volume icon is missing.
I can hear all kinds of sounds (rythmbox, youtube videos,...) ...
I have already tried to install the package ...
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Replacing Pulseaudio with Pipewire in Ubuntu 20.04
Since I installed Ubuntu 20.04 I have been facing problems with my Bluetooth headset microphone not detected by the system. My headset worked perfectly with Windows. Also, I am not able to switch to ...
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No sound device detected
I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTE on a new Lenovo E470 machine. No sound device is detected, I mean:
And similarly, no input device is detected. Some information that may be helpful:
aplay -l returns
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ubuntu 22.04 audio output not working (dummy audio)
I have just upgraded my ubuntu to 22.04 but the audio is not working.
In the setting, the audio option has only "Dummy Output" and the test fails.
I have tried to do what is reported here ...
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Crackling and delayed sound after upgrading to 18.04
I just upgraded to 18.04, and I noticed that the sound from my headphones, whether plugged into front or back port, was very crackling and slow/delayed. This issue didn't exist on 17.04/10. It also ...
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No sound settings available in the settings manager window
Last night I decided to upgrade my system to the latest version of Xubuntu, 13.10. The process went fine, but now I'm facing this strange issue. There is no sound settings available in the settings ...
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How to automatically change volume level when un-/plugging headphones?
What I want is the following:
When I plug in my headphones, I want the sound to be un-muted and set to a specific volume level.
When I unplug my headphones, I want the sound to be muted (or set to a ...
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Internal speaker (Audio) is not working in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 lts from 18.04 lts. After reboot audio is not working. I tried to reinstall pulseaudio and alsa but still not working.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall alsa-base ...
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Step-by-step to run a midi keyboard input device? 12.04
I have a Korg Nanokey, and I'd like to make it produce sound in ubuntu. I've read that means I should be using Rosegarden, and that Rosegarden uses JACK, but does not install it. (Although checking ...
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pavucontrol stuck at "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..."
I sometimes have the problem that I can't hear any sound on my Dell XPS13 with Ubuntu 16.04. I have a Logitech G930 connected to it. When I open pavucontrol it is stuck at "Establishing connection to ...
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No sound - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Installed Ubuntu 20.04 and I do not have sound.
I already tried many ways to solve it but the problem persists. When i run alsa mixer this comes out.
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Is there a way of leveling/compressing the sound system-wide?
As a Laptop user, I'm sure that a lot of people, even the ones using Netbooks would have already gone through this problem. Especially when listening to podcasts, and using it as an example, the sound ...
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No sound on HDMI Ubuntu 20.04
I just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop which is a bit outdated:
CPU: Intel Core i5 CPU M 480 @ 2.67GHz
RAM: 4GB
Video card: GeForce GT 420M
Audio: GF108 High Definition Audio Controller NVIDIA
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Autoconnecting Bluetooth Devices
Is there a way to set the Bluetooth in Ubuntu to autoconnect to devices it is paired to when it is turned on. Furthermore, is there a way to automatically change the sound output to a Bluetooth ...
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How can I use PulseAudio virtual audio streams to play music over Skype?
I'm trying to listen to the audio output of a specific process (A) and another process (B) while redirecting A's audio output to B's audio input. This would be the equivalent of playing music into ...
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adjust max possible volume in pulseaudio
Somtimes some sound/movie/music on my Ubuntu_12.04 system is at a very low volume by itself.
Henceforth I increase the volume of the sound output. I can use the following setting (see screenshot)
It ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 sound suddenly stopped working, reboot did not fix
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on an ASUS X52J laptop.
I was watching a lecture on Google Chrome, when suddenly, all sound was lost. Throughout the PC. No sounds from Chrome (even though Chrome indicates ...
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