Questions about audio hardware and software in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
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How do I get sound to work outside lightdm
If for whatever reason I sudo stop lightdm running on mint and just use a simple xinit session with mutter, is there some way I can get sound to work? Whenever I do that, it seems there's no sound.
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VLC - gapless cue support
Most of my music is ripped flac's with cue's. I listen to albums with cue mainly because of last.fm scrobbling, but I want the same experience of gapless playback as listening to whole flac using VLC ...
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Library for audio effects and modulation?
I'm building a site which will have multiple audio lectures uploaded, as it's mainly a feed for a certain person's lectures.
What's annoying is that there are many things which can go wrong during ...
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Choppy sound with flashpayer
After a number of updates, including upgrading to flashplayer 11 and kernel 3.8.2 sound from flashplayer and skype has become choppy.
Setup
In my setup I have .ascoundrc set up to use pulseaudio ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome shell - suspend wake up sound
I would like to be able to enable some sound file to play whenever I suspend and wake up my netbook (MSI Wind u100) but I can't found a way to do this in gnome shell.
I'm using PinguyOS 11.10, which ...
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Realtek audio issues on OpenBSD 5.2
I am running OpenBSD/amd64 5.2 stable on a new machine, using a gigabyte motherboard with a realtek alc898 audio chipset. When I try to play any audio (sources include mpd, aucat, and cat > ...
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Sending to two bluetooth speakers at once
Is it possible to send the same audio signal to two different Bluetooth speakers at once from a single source?
I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to send audio to two different sinks ...
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Channeling audio
I am trying to get an audio setup that looks like:
INPUTS:
1 stream from mpg123 (CLI MP3 player)
1 Microphone Input
OUTPUT:
1 stream going to Jitsi (Jabber w/ voice) to be broadcast.
1 connection to ...
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Unexpectedly lost speaker output. Headphone output works fine
Yesterday when I opened my laptop I noticed that I no longer had sound from the built-in speakers. I carefully checked settings in Sound Preferences, and then dropped to shell and looked in ...
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No volume control in Nexuiz fullscreen mode
While playing Nexuiz on my Ubuntu in full screen mode the volume control buttons on my laptop don't work at all, externally after minimizing the game increasing/decreasing the sound solves the problem ...
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Splitting WavPack files when the .cue file and .wv file have different names?
If a directory contains an album encoded as one large .wv file and a .cue file, splitting the entire album into individual .flac tracks is a simple task:
$ cuebreakpoints foo.cue | shnsplit -o flac ...
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Alienware M14x - No sound in linux Mint 14 (Nadia)
I have done a fresh install of Linux Mint 14.1 x64 on my Alienware M14x. Everything was working fine after installed. Unfortunately the sound is lost after sometime. Theres no sound when playing video ...
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Saving alsa settings
After a new update, there is no sound by default in my Debian Squeeze box until running alsactl init, but whenever rebooting the computer I have to run the command again to gain sound.
How can I ...
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No Audio Output with X11
I have a queer issue with my Arch-Linux System.
I am unable to get any Sound Output when playing audio, AFTER starting X Server.
The issue is not with Volume Controls or Sound Card Drivers because, ...
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How to make CD-quality WAV files using avconv?
I want to make a CD using the audio tracks of some video clips. I was thinking of using avconv to convert the files. As far as the other steps go, I found some instructions on the Arch Wiki. This is ...
