Who wants to help me fix my audio issues?? π Not joking.... π
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What problems are you having specifically?
I wake in the morning and I step outside, I take a breath and I get real high and I scream from the top of my lungs AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
With all the myriad problems I've had with linux, audio was never one of them. Hell, my android is worse with audio. Looking at this thread, I'm apparently very lucky
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Iβm getting old and soon Iβm gonna get scammed by AI.
I'm in my mid 40s and this terrifies me, honestly. I've seen a lot of images people point out are AI and don't notice it until later. Some are super obvious, but others I might never notice (and doubly so if I don't stop to actually examine all the details of every image I see and who has time for that?)
Smiled when I saw someone de-slopped the meme, smiled even harder when I saw the same OP
You love to see it
When everyone struck so hard under neverslop banners, I was kind of afraid folks will alienate an awesome poster.
Glad to see you taking it the right way! :)
Bless you for doing it non-AI
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Stupid sexy Skeletor...
MYAAH
Much better
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Pipewire has fixed pretty much every audio problem I've had across both Linux and windows. Pair that with qpwgraph for a gui for controlling input and output flow, and you're in easy to fix audio city, baby.
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At a LUG, helping a new Linux enthusiast solve their ALSA IRQ issues in '98, did indeed make me feel Hey-ya!
* It was lucky I had chewed through the exact same issue, 3 weeks before. Must have looked like a space wizard.
I said Hey! What's going on?
And I say, hey hey, hey hey
I once spent a month trying to compile a kernel and sound driver for a SoundBlaster Gold card in Mandrake 6. I still have flashbacks to that time.
You know what, I'm good just sitting here in silence.
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I told claude i have a weird crackle sometimes. It identified some subsystem keeping s connection open, forcing small packets.
Fixed in a minute. Never anymore issues with that.
Is Claude a true linuxer?
Yesterday I gave claude remote access to my Chinese android car stereo. It was opening apps, taking screenshots, backing things up and decompiling them to check for malware. Now I'm going to remove everything unneeded like media apps and Google Play services to make the system faster.
I've had a few "holy shit" moments with AI over the past month or so that I haven't had since late 2022/early 2023. Crazy times, we are in for a ride...
As long as you don't bootloop or brick your device by removing something crucial. Some people have managed that with their Android TVs.
What's going on?
Audio is one of the very short list of things windows actually handles better. I have a very nice DAC for my iems and on Linux it is stuck at sub cd quality. On windows I can go 32bit audio :/
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And so I wake up in the morning and I look outside, and I take a deep breath and get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs "What's going on?"
But I was told that Linux has never had any audio problems and I was completely imagining all the ones I thought I had.
Basically 100% of my problems since switching to linux have been audio related.
Oh wait I mean no, gaslighting isn't real you made it up because you're crazy
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Can you help my audio crackles whenever my CPU starts to do something resource intensive? Or with KWIN under Wayland lagging as well when the CPU also starts to cook itself? Breaking keyboard inputs and mouse. BTW this is when I intentionally overload the CPU lol. I could just switch back to x11 like the bitch I am though. But like I enjoy having a GPU rendered desktop and not going through x11 for everything.
Put your nerdy where your mouth is!
I just installed mint on my girlfriendβs 2015 MacBook. Everything works except for the audio. I havenβt started troubleshooting yet because it was just installed last night.
Save me timeβhow do I fix it?
First thing to check is Alsamixer. Get on that mfugging terminal and type in Alsamixer and then hit the F6 key to check if Mint was just being weird and muted anything. I had that happen to me a few times where it muted headphones or speakers on its own.
If that alone doesn't work, it can help to check if wireplumber and be sure this is enabled.
systemctl status --user wireplumber.service
If it isn't enabled, then run
systemctl --user start wireplumber.service
And if none of that worked, I did find Pavucontrol worked pretty amazingly for me. I just downloaded it and it just worked to just
sudo apt install pavucontrol
and then ran
pavucontrol &
Lemme know if any of this worked. Since you JUST got it, I don't think it's anything too crazy.
Static causes my speakers to stop:
systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse
I use this a lot
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Hey Mr audio, I changed one of my Recording Devices in my Sound - System Settings from Analog Stereo Input (I think lol) to Pro Audio (for the lols) and it completely removed itself from the list... I have no idea where it went or what to search because I don't really know what I did.
Edit: I'm an idiot and for to include: CachyOS and KDE Plasma
So, I'm actually able to reproduce that and then had to fix it myself. π
The "Pro Audio" profile seems to be a PipeWire thing: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-is-the-pro-audio-profile
I'm guessing, the recording device doesn't like that profile and just crashes right away. And when it has crashed, it won't show up in the list of available devices.
Now, how is that profile remembered even when the device disconnects? Apparently, a component called "WirePlumber" is responsible for that.
And it stores this information in: ~/.local/state/wireplumber/default-profile
If you don't mind losing your profile selection for other devices, you can just do:
mv ~/.local/state/wireplumber/default-profile ~/.local/state/wireplumber/default-profile.old
and then do a reboot.
After the reboot, your recording device should be back.
If you do mind losing the other profiles, then make a backup of that file and try to remove lines related to your recording device, and again do a reboot to test it.
For me, it was a device which had both input and output, and I had to remove both lines before it recognized it as unconfigured.
that worked, thank you very much!
I have another audio question that I will probably make a post later in a help community but on the off chance you may know...
I want to connect my headset mic and desktop mic to a combined input jack/device/whatever that I can use for discord etc so when I walk away from my computer I can flip down my mic on my headset and still yap... I've tried searching and youtube but haven't had much luck... qpwgraph also shows my headset is mono which could be an issue? /shrug
So, I'm not actually that deep into audio, but I believe, you need to do this: https://superuser.com/a/1827716
Direct link to the Wiki as well, in case superuser.com evaporates: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Virtual-Devices#combine-source-selected-channels-and-sources
So, this will create a virtual audio device. And I'm guessing, you'll then be able to select that as your microphone of choice in KDE's sound settings.
Dude is about to sneeze, is that an allergic reaction?
True! Helping somebody less experienced than you solve a problem is a rush. I've had the same experience helping people with 3d printing problems.
Dear audio support thread
How do I get the headphones and line out to function on the x870 MSI tomahawk in pop os 24.04
Line out is not shown as a separate device to headphones jack
TAKE A DEEP BREATH! Take a deep breath! It's okay! I'm a trained professional!
Aight first, LISTEN TO MY VOICE, first we're gonna wanna open the terminal and type in Alsamixer. Now the problem is that x870 has multiple audio devices! Some might be named something like 'USB Audio" or even "Realtek ALC[numbers]"
Try to find a setting called "Auto-Mute Mode" and disable it!
If this doesn't work, the good news is like Mint, Pop!_OS also uses Wireplumber! Open up Pavucontrol, which I think Pop!_OS just comes with or at least my friend told me it did, go to the Configuration tab, find the USB Audio tab, and change the profile to "Pro Audio" and then wait a bit and then switch it back to "Analog Stereo Duplex"! This works because it just works.
Lastly it could be a bios thing. Get into the BIOS, go to settings, then advances, and then find the Integrated Peripherals and ensure that the HD Audio Controller is enabled.
And if none of that works, it could be that Wireplumber is borked up and I have what is called a pro-gamer move. On Mint, this ALWAYS works!
systemctl --user stop wireplumber.service
rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber
systemctl --user start wireplumber.service
Take it easy, gamer.
Now if you can just make all the apps work reliably and get the screen stop flickering, I'll use Linux again!
Note that you will be blacklisted by nvidia because using nvidia gpus outside of data centers is forbidden
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