The tag is for questions about the recording and playback of speech and music on your computer, but also for problems about the sound component of videos.
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Why does the “Playback Devices” dialog take so long to open?
Opening any of the audio properties dialogs takes 2 minutes and 5 seconds every time. There aren't other tasks that take an unreasonable amount of time. It's something specific to the Sound properties ...
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Mac: Create one virtual audio device out of the combination of others
So I have just realized, that my Traktor Audio 6 would use EVERY and ANY input labeled device as an input...well, duh, how could I think it'd only use the MAIN in's and out's.
But now I have the ...
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Does Audacity have these features?
I'm doing radio editing using Audacity -- but can't seem to find certain features that I am used to using in other audio editors. Here is what I would like to do:
Once I delete a clip of audio, I ...
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a decent free DAW (digital audio workstation) that works in windows (and maybe also linux) [closed]
I'm doing radio editing, and I want a free audio editing program that has some of the features of ProTools, if not a full digital audio workstation. My issue with audacity (aside from it crashing) is ...
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Change magnitude of volume change with keyboard media controls [duplicate]
My keyboard has volume buttons on it. When I use them with my Windows 7 laptop, they increase/decrease the volume by 2 points (i.e. if I'm at 2% volume and I press the volume up key, it will go to 4% ...
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Any sound which is played from Google Chrome is very low pitch
Any sound which is played from Google Chrome is very low pitch, doesn't matter which website or source i.e. video from youtube, music from flash games and etc. However if I open same content in other ...
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Can I enable sound on both HDMI monitors?
I'm using an nVidia GeForce GTX 660 on a Windows 8 Pro machine. I have 2 monitors, exactly the same model, both capable of playing sound through HDMI. They're both currently connected using HDMI (2 ...
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Can I use multiple sound cards with the same sound source at once?
Given a system with two sound cards (one onboard and the other USB):
Is it possible for me to configure Windows 7 (directly or with the help of third party software) to replicate/clone the audio ...
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Wrong audio duration with ffmpeg
I tried to convert a m4a file to mp3 with ffmpeg, with the following simplest command:
ffmpeg -i in.m4a out.mp3
After conversion, the duration seems weird. The original m4a was 4:06. But for the ...
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How to convert audio file of type G.723.1 into wav format?
I have few audio files which have .wav extension. I tried to get information about this file using soxi <foo.wav> command but I got following error :
soxi FAIL formats: can't open input file ...
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GNU/Linux: sound recording has electric hum
I can record sound from my microphone, but I get an loud electric hum at around 20% of the max level. This is no matter what software I use to record.
How can I get rid of that noise?
Soundcard: ...
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How to reduce audio duration for AC3?
I have an MKV (an Italian version). I have extracted the H264 and the unwanted (Italian) AC3 audio. Now, I'd like to remux it with an English audio track (I have).
The problem is, the English track ...
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Is it possible to direct sound from one application to speakers and another to headset?
I was wondering if it would be possible to direct the sound from Spotify to speakers, while keeping Skype or Google chat to my headset? I am using a mac mini by the way
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Audio playback device already in use
I have a headset: Creative SB Recon3D. Since today (after power went out) sound doesn't work through my headset on the PC, it works fine on a Playstation 3.
I have Windows 7 64x. When I go to ...
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HDMI Audio drops out when display enters powersave
I have a Windows 8 machine with an AMD APU attached to my Home Theater system through HDMI (HDMI routes through a Home Theater AMP, then into the TV).
Here's my problem, Whenever the display is ...
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Can't load or repair Windows
I can't run my Windows 7 64bit.
I tried:
System repair – hangs at the repair screen
Start normally – hangs at the Starting Windows screen
Start in safe mode – hangs at the classpnp.sys file
Start ...
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Debian Wheezy crackling sound on shutdown
Crackling sound is coming out of my internal and external speakers as well when I shutdown or reboot my HP 8540w notebook.
lspci | grep Aud
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 ...
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My USB head phoness only let me use skype
My USB headphones (microsoft lifechat LX-3000) only let me here skype and my computers programe to test if your speakerss/ headphones are working. i can get it to sound off a browser or my games ...
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I have to unplug my audio cable every time I leave my computer for more than a few hours
Why does this happen, and how can I stop it from happening?
To elaborate, if I go AFK for more than 2 or 3 hours my computer will have no audio output, despite it showing that there is in the ...
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How to stream my GNU/Linux audio output to Android devices over WI-FI?
I want to stream my audio output over the network (Wi-Fi) to my Android devices. I'm not looking for a music/video streaming solution, but I would stream any audio output of my GNU/Linux desktop to my ...
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Debian Wheezy no sound through jack output
I have strange problem with sound on my Debian wheezy powered notebook. Sound is not playing through jack output, but speakers are working just OK.
lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel ...
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Stream audio without delay [closed]
I want to stream the complete audio output of my laptop (win7)
wirelessly to my speakers. (Not just the static stuff, like mp3s, but also
"interactive" sounds.)
So far I have tried it via some ...
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Audio working on linux but not working on WIndows 7
I'm using a USB powered speaker on my desktop computer running on an ASUS PG5C MX/1333 motherboard. Initially I was using Windows XP during which time the speaker was working fine. Recently I upgraded ...
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Stripping metadata from MP3 files
Is there a way I can bulk strip mp3 meta data from files? Preferably from the command line on OS X or Linux?
I recently tried to use TuneUp (an app that is supposed to located mis-named tracks and ...
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How can I blacklist a program from accessing a mic or volume controls?
In this particular case, I have a program that ignores settings for mic usage (eg, it always-transmits even when its own push-to-talk and such is set, and causes all other program's volume to be ...
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External speakers don't work in Windows 7
I'm having a peculiar problem. There is no sound coming from my external speakers. I have an Asus EeePC 1215B with an external set of speakers. And while the onboard speakers of my laptop work ...
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Wireless headset, volume slider and battery drain
On my wireless headset, I want to conserve the battery and use it as little as possible. I was wondering if the battery drain is different in the following two situations:
I have the volume dial on ...
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How can I make my pdp Afterglow headphones louder?
I have pdp Afterglow headphones and I want them louder, but it's already on 100, and it's truly not, it's on level 30, please help!
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Encode mp3 to playback at 1.5x speed in avconv (libav)
I would like to take an mp3 file and re-encode it to play faster (perhaps at 1.5x speed). I primarily use avconv in debian linux, but can use any other program if recommended. I can use any operating ...
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Duplicate Front Boxes sound onto Rear Speakers [duplicate]
I am currently using foobar2000 which has the ability to "Convert Stereo to 4 Channels" by simply duplicating the Front Speakers output to the Rear Speakers.
This Sounds really great opposed to the ...
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Samsung NP-100SP No sound from speakers
I have serious problem, I bought Samsung NP-N100SP notebook I installed windows 7 and all drivers.
But there is no sound from the speakers, when I put headphones I get sound. The driver (Realtek ...
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Is hidden ALSA device possible?
Is it possible to create a hidden ALSA device in ~/.asoundrc ?
What I am trying to do right now is to set up an Equalizer to use with ALSA subsystem. There is good solution for this problem described ...
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MP3 Streaming and Antivirus, Shoutcast Specific
I have several Shoutcast streams which are streaming live at specific times, when testing the solution it seems that Sophos antivirus and apparently AVG antivirus check MP3 streams before playing. ...
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Is there a program that allows me to send audio output to a microphone input (either real or virtual microphone)?
I've tried using VAC virtual audio cable, as well as virtual audio streaming.
Unfortunately, none of these solutions provide a way to send audio output to a microphone input. None of the virtual audio ...
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Optimum parameters for audio slicing using FFMpeg
I am planning to use Perl to extract audio from media files through FFMpeg. Now as far as I know, FFMpeg needs lot of parameters like bit-rate, etc which it used to extract the audio. So for one ...
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Music manager under Win [closed]
I have a Windows XP and I want to rip my audio CDs to a mp3 hard disk archive. I want to manage the archive easily. So I need some sort of database system to organize the tracks.
What I need:
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How do I replace the audio in an MP4 file without re-encoding?
I've got a video in an MP4 container that I would like to replace the audio track in (not add another audio stream to, nor convert the audio format of).
Someone elsewhere online suggested to use ...
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Having recordMyDesktop export audio and video in two different files
As the title dictates. How can I make it output the video in, for example, rMD_video1.* and the audio in rMD_audio1.mp4?
If it isn't possible, how can I separate these two? I'm sure it's possible ...
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avconv option -c:a copy
I am converting a bunch of videos from FLV to MP4 (for iphone compatibility) and using AAC codec it kept throwing out "invalid audio bitrate" or similar errors. I tried -c:a copy option and it works, ...
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what are the good media converter softwares available? [closed]
what are the good software out there to convert media (videos: avi, mp4,etc, audio : mp3,ogg) files from one format to another?
Eg:
I want to convert say a avi to an mp4. How do i do that?
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ffmpeg: isolate one audio channel
How can I use ffmpeg to isolate one channel from an audio file? I have a stereo audio file, and I need the output to be the contents of the right channel in a mono audio file.
While I'm sure it's ...
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How to encode a video with timestamps in order to have audio/video sync
DISCLAIMER: I am unfortunately very new to codecs and using FFMPEG, so I apologize for any incorrect terminology or if this is in actuality a very easily resolved question.
I have a sequence of jpeg ...
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Why some videos play only in a particular media player?
Our client sent us a couple of videos files for audio transcription work. They said that we should use Player Microsoft application 4.8.0.0 to properly run the two files [right clicking these files, ...
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Nokia/Sony Ericsson 3.5 headphone on Toshiba PC
I've a Sony Ericsson headphone, when I put it on a acer PC, it work nice, the stereo and all. But when I put it on a Toshiba PC (I've test this in 4 different model), If you half plug it, you get a ...
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Listen to an audio conversation skype, yahoo from another computer [closed]
Is there any software that can allow me to monitor mic and headset feed that are made from a computer inside the network or from another computer using the Internet.
I want to monitor how my ...
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LG Tone (LG BHS700) Bluetooth headphones on Windows 8 - Microphone functionality?
Was wondering if someone has been able to successfully configure their LG Tone to work in Windows 8. While I have been able to pair the headset to my Windows 8 laptop (which has built-in Bluetooth – ...
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How to see user's comments in Soundcloud? [migrated]
Does anyone knows if you can see the comments a user has made in his SoundCloud profile? You can see the comments a track has, but I don't know if you can see the comments a user has made.
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How to start a program in a specific xfce4-terminal window tab?
I use XFCE for one feature that is very important to me. When I insert a Audio CD in one of my optical drives it can automatically start abcde to rip it. I have three optical drives (/dev/sr0, ...
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Computer Playing sounds but not showing action on Volume Mixer
I can hear all my sounds coming from my computer with no problem but lately the Volume mixer has stop Showing the Action of the sounds normally you get the gReen bar that goes up and down but mine ...
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Web Media Player that has an audio visualizer for audio streams [closed]
Hello I urgently need an Web Media Player (Media Player that's embedbedable in html) that support audio effects for live audio streams...
Jwplayer doesn't support this, flowplayer neither... please, ...
