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PulseAudio is a sound system for Linux and other UNIX systems.

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Set default profile for PulseAudio

How do I set the default profile that is used after each boot, in PulseAudio? When I boot, sound doesn't work. If I open the PulseAudio Volume Control app, and go to the Configuration pane and select "Analog Surround 4.0 Output" from the Profile…
D.W.
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What do the sink and source keywords mean in pulseaudio?

I am reading about pulseaudio, how it works and how I can configure it. I am encountering two keywords a lot: SINK, SOURCE. At first I thought SINK meant OUTPUT and SOURCE meant INPUT, but it seems that this is not the case. Could someone explain…
Shnd
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How can I create a virtual output in PulseAudio?

I need to create a virtual output in PulseAudio so as to be able to capture and stream audio from a specific source. I know that it's possible to re-route a specific application's output to a given output device like so, using pavucontrol: I'm…
Naftuli Kay
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Disable headphone jack detection in pulseaudio

I have a dodgy headphone port on my laptop that does not reliably detect when headphones/external speakers are plugged in. This means that the output is constantly being muted/unmuted which is rather annoying How can I configure pulseaudio to…
Ross
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pulseaudio sink always suspended

I am on Debian Pulseaudio 2.0-6.1. Up to now never had any issues with sound. I made some experiments with remote sinks and now it seems pulse it totally messed up. I have only one sink. When I restart pulseaudio pactl shows the sink as IDLE. As…
morgon
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What is the alsamixer of Pulse Audio?

I just installed Pulse Audio over my ALSA installation. Is there a Pulse Audio mixer, something like alsamixer, that I can use for tasks such as changing the microphone gain?
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How to control equalizer within command line?

So Pulseaudio has a built-in equilizer loaded with module-equalizer-sink According to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Equalizer, you can control it with the qpaeq GUI. Is there a way to congfigure PA…
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Buzzing when not playing

I am using a fresh system with PulseAudio. This system previously did not have this issue when using GNOME, but with this reinstall I am using i3wm without a DE. The issue is that after my analog audio output idles for a few seconds (between 5 and…
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Latency doesn't work with PulseAudio on linux

I have two speakers. The first one is connected to a PCI card and the second one via Bluetooth. Sounds are played a little bit earlier on the PCI card so I want to add some latency. I downloaded the pulse audio GUI and I have this : As you can…
Dougui
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How to reduce the volume of a background music stream when a different audio source is playing?

With PulseAudio it is possible to manage volume on an application basis, but I find it hardly useful to do it manually. What I'd rather have is the following: I'm usually listening to music but sometimes I want to watch a YouTube video - then I have…
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pulseaudio: auto switch sink when headphones connected

I'm running XUbuntu 16.04. Previously I had speakers connected to analog line-out, and sound would automatically switch over to headphones when they were plugged in. This was all happening on one output device (motherboard audio). I've now got a new…
Bruce Merry
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How to set an upper bound on volume in PulseAudio?

Is it possible to set an upper limit for PulseAudio on startup? I would like to make sure that I do not put the volume too high for the sake of my eardrums. I looked into pactl set-sink-volume but that doesn't allow me to set a maximum volume limit.…
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Endless pulseaudio error logging: failed to acquire autospawn lock

I have an issue with pulseaudio logging error messages in a loop and wonder how I can fix them: Aug 7 20:22:17 s pulseaudio[25638]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. Aug 7 20:22:17 s pulseaudio[25638]: main.c: Failed to acquire…
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PulseAudio naming a device

I found the Question and answer: How can I use PulseAudio virtual audio streams to play music over Skype? I am currently using the command pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=Virtual1 to create my virtual devices. But would like to…
user67110
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How to get PulseAudio echo-cancel to work with Ofono

I'm trying to turn a small embedded device into a fully functional A2DP+HFP receiver. I've got everything working, but I'm really having trouble figuring out how to get the module-echo-cancel to work with ofono Here is what I have: - PulseAudio…
Emil Borconi
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