Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
Also, check tags: alsa and pulseaudio.
Questions tagged [audio]
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how to understand list of soundcards; meaning of MID, HDMI, PCH
Command aplay -l produces a list of "all soundcards and digital audio devices".
On my brand-new Fujitsu Esprimo desktop, I get:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
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Joachim W
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Playing arbitrary PCM sound throught the PC speaker?
As a child I've played one DOS game called Electro Body.
The game did something amazing - it played back PCM samples through the PC speaker. Not the crappy square beeps - it played real sound effects!
It was super quiet in comparison to the usual…
unfa
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Is there a consistent shell command for adjusting volume?
I've been trying to find a consistent shell command to adjust the volume on my laptop. I was recommended to try (for muting/unmuting):
pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle
and it didn't work, I got the error
Failed to get sink information: No such…
preferred_anon
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Automatic Volume settings?
When I watch a Movie on my Desktop PC - Fedora 14 - In many times the Movie is too quiet to hear, but sometimes....it's too loud - Because there's suddenly music, or an explosion, that's really loud...
Are there any solutions/script or anything to…
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Is it possible to achieve bit-perfect audio on Linux?
While browsing idly the Internet, I found a topic on a computer forum when a person was claiming to have failed to achieve bit-perfect¹ audio on Linux: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/617127/sorry-guys-no-more-linux-for-me/ He says he has…
gaazkam
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How to limit the maximum volume?
Sometimes people scream in an otherwise quiet video.
How do I set a loudness limit? Sounds louder than the limit would be scaled down to the limit. Sounds quieter than the limit would pass unchanged. Best would be to set a specific dB limit. Is this…
wos
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Is the Zalman ZM-RSSC 5.1 USB Sound Card supported in Linux?
And to what extent does this card have support in Linux?
Neil
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Audio tone/sine generator with frequency gauge
I want to flatten frequency response of my headphones with EQ (to dramatically increase sound quality with only a bit of time), but I need tone generator for that with live manually selectable frequency gauge, so I can dynamically move it and locate…
Ctrl-C
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arecord to record what is playing on speakers
The command arecord foo.wav records from microphone and saves to file foo.wav.
Is there a way I can have arecord record what is coming out of speakers instead of recording from microphone? Or perhaps there are other command line tools that can do…
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Add a loopback audio device in pipewire
When I was using pulseaudio, it was pretty easy to enable a loopback module, so I could listen to my mic's input as I was speaking:
pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1
How can a similar effect be achieved with pipewire? alsaloop works…
d909
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arecord wav file size limit with named pipes
Scenario:
OS: raspbian buster
I have an audio chain as follows USB Audio Input->arecord->named
pipe->forked-daapd. In the present configuration, arecord and
forked-daapd are both set up as standard systemd services.
The goal is to send audio from…
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Sound gets distorted on Linux Mint
I'm having issues with sound on Linux Mint, it worked fine for long time but suddenly begin to distort sporadically.
First I thought it was software related issue but reinstalled Mint from zero and the problem persist. Then I concluded it was the…
Alejandro
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How can I beep without PC speaker
There is no PC speaker in my laptop. Is there any way to get beeps by a normal speaker in Arch Linux?
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HP Envy x360 2022 Ryzen edition speakers not working
HP Envy x360 15-ey0013dx 2022 model has sound problem. In Windows 11 speakers are working perfectly fine. In Linux, the headphone jack and audio output through HDMI are working fine.
aplay -l output:
~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware…
n0th1ng
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Is there a way to change volume of a single process?
In other words, does something like the volume mixer in windows, where you can change the volume of different applications, exist? Also if there is, please help me understand how it works.
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