Questions tagged [audio]

For questions about the recording and playback of speech and music on your computer, as well as for problems about the sound component of videos.

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Static noise through speakers when plugged into PC

I recently obtained a pair of really nice powered speakers for my computer setup- Dynaudio LYD 5s. My issue is as follows: when plugged into my PC, and powered on, the speakers make a very loud, ...
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Headphone jack not working (Dell Inspiron 15 7000)

Brand new Inspiron 15 7000 running Windows 10. Start up Windows with the headphones already plugged into the audio jack, and sound is correctly played through the headphones. Unplug the headphone from ...
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Speaker (Realtek(R) Audio) not working. Audio services are not responding

I haven't heard a sound on my laptop in a week (HP Envy 13-6 months old). On headphones the sound works perfectly, but when I take off the headphones the whole laptop goes silent. I tried several ...
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freeze in 30-60 seconds on a macOS Catalina when connecting bluetooth headphones

I use a MacBook Pro 2018 (Catalina 10.15.7), the lags started a month ago and to this day they enrage me. The problem itself is that when you connect any bluetooth headphones (JBL Live650BTNC or ...
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How can I get my Airpods to do Mic/Sound at the same time with my Windows 10 Dell Laptop?

I have a Dell E5450 laptop running Windows 10 Enterprise. The laptop has an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 card. I have AirPods 2 (non-pro) and I've been trying to use them with this laptop for a ...
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Single Bluetooth headset detected as multiple devices; not all of them function

A single Treks Air Bluetooth headset paired to Windows 10 appears as several devices. I wouldn't mind this if they all worked, but many times only one of them works. And it's hard to tell which one ...
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Shrinking hard drive due to bad sectors

I've got a 3TB Western Digital hard drive. It's pretty old, but one day, he suddenly stopped reading the files and he was slowing down the whole PC. I decided to completely format that drive, and you ...
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how to use alsa device hw:0 on xubuntu

I have an audio processing sw designed to use alsa's hw:0 device. On my xubuntu machine I get the same error as this command line: $ aplay -D hw:0 440.wav aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or ...
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Multiple Audio on DELL Laptop

Explanation would be much appreciated!... Yesterday I managed to play two Albums simultaneously, one using Amazon Music through my bluetooth headphones and the other using iTunes through the laptop ...
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Video, but no audio on TV when connected to laptop over hdmi

I have a windows 10 laptop (Thinkpad E570) and a samsung smart tv (Samsung J6200). When I plug in an hdmi cable I can duplicate or extend the video just fine, but I can't get the sound to come out of ...
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Realtek HD Audio Driver does not detect external mic in combo jack

I have ASUS N550JV laptop with combo 3.5mm audio jack, manuel says so. I have Windows 10. However, when I plug in 4 pole 3.5mm mobile phone earbuds, it does not detect external microphone. A window ...
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Mic stopped working after Windows Update (Microsoft Surface Pro 7, Headset connected to USB-C hub)

Microsoft Update just rolled a huge set of updates to my rather new Surface Pro 7... and I can no longer use Skype with my gaming headset (with boom mic). This worked great before the update. (Note, ...
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Want to use the Windows Media Player > Visualizations> Alchemy in full screen respond to line in signal

I think my favorite thing about Windows from XP to 8.1 is the Windows Media Player visualization (named) "Alchemy" in full screen. Is there a way to make it respond to a signal coming from ...
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MPC-BE fails to render files that MPC-HC renders

I am switching to a new computer. I have MPC-HC on my old computer, but I understand that version is deprecated, so I installed MPC-BE on my new computer instead. However, I find that MPC-BE cannot ...
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Can I make Windows volume quieter for USB speakers?

I bought a pair of USB speakers, JBL Pebbles. They have volume control control that is not independent - changing the volume using the speakers changes the volume in Windows (Windows 10). Problem is - ...
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How to tell which Bluetooth adapter a device is connected to via the command line?

I can't figure out how to do this via the CLI. If we're talking GUI, then Blueman can do this for me but I need a CLI solution for a script I'm making. And between bluetoothctl and pacmd (PulseAudio), ...
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How can I embed an audio in Word document so that when I click or tap a word or line the embedded audio is played

No this question is not just about embedding the audio as outlined in related question "How to embed an audio file in Word 2010?", but beyond that. I need to give pronunciation guide on few ...
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How to enable local microphone to use on remote desktop

I want to talk to the microphone of a local machine on Skype of a remote machine.  Unfortunately, this solution did not work: Before connecting to the remote computer, click on "Show Options&...
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Tried to run pulseaudio

When I was trying to do this It got me an error on running pactl list | grep Name command. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with linux deploy and LXDE desktop. Error: shared memfd open() failed: Function ...
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FFmpeg: audio start time way off

Real-time audio and video is recorded from one audio source and two video sources: ffmpeg -y -copyts \ -f pulse -thread_queue_size 1024 -i alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_2i2_USB_Y8CAJW2063E5BD-00....
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Play an audio file on the recording stream

I basically want to play an audio file to the recording stream so other people can hear the audio. I am using a 20.04 Kubuntu. Is there any easy way to do that? I tried sox but it didn't seem to work ...
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How can I get Finale and Audacity to work at the same time without one or the other app seemingly break?

I'm trying to use Finale and Audacity at the same time in Windows 10, but whenever I open Finale it breaks itself and Audacity if they are open at the same time, regardless of which one was open first....
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Sony WH-1000XM3: Microphone doesn't work in stereo mode after changing of bluetooth adapter

I've changed the bluetooth adapter from USB to one built into my new motherboard. With USB adapter I could use both good stereo sound and microphone. The device in sound settings was one. Now I'm ...
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How to correctly connect my front audio panel?

My motherboard is a gigabyte ga-a320m-h. I don't know how to plug the wires in right sequence. I tried to find the answer in the user manual, but I still don't understand how correctly connect. Please ...
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Using two bluetooth earphones

I'm trying to use two different bluetooth headphones in order to talk on discord while still being able to listen to music. One headphone is used for the ears, the other for the microphone. I'm aware ...
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Set default program based on file duration

Is there a way to set the default programs based on media duration in Windows 10? For example, open audio files (.wav, .mp3, ...) less than 20 seconds with Winamp and others with MusicBee.
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Is there a way to improve sound quality in Linux?

Total noob here, I did do some research before posting this question here, been using Linux since long and not satisfied by the audio quality that the Windows Counterpart provides (proprietary Dolby ...
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Corsair HS50 microphone attached to headset not working properly

I just got a Corsair HS50 headset, which is a set of headphones with a detachable microphone. The microphone connects to the headphones via an ordinary 3-pin jack. There is only one wire coming out of ...
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Is it possible to tell Windows not to lower the volume of the Skype for Business 2016 client when a call is detected?

Whenever I either receive an incoming call or make an outgoing call through the Skype for Business 2016 Windows desktop client, I've noticed that no matter whether I answer or reject the call, Windows ...
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Clone sound from Chromium to ALSA Loopback and also speakers

I have working setup on my RPi3 B+ with Raspbian where is sound from Chromium browser send directly to ALSA Loopback device (enabled by modprobe snd-aloop as kernel module) by this Chromium's ...
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This video contains audio but audio won't play, why?

I have created this video using swift. This video contains audio, but audio won't play. You can extract the audio using FFMPEG ffmpeg -i movie.mov audio.mp3 I have encoded this video using the ...
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Audio cracking whenever I'm inside a Discord call (only happens on my wireless headset)

I'm having a problem with Discord - everytime I join a call, any audio that's playing gets cracking noises. It doesn't matter where the audio is coming from - Discord or not, cracking noises are heard....
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How to turn off audio description in windows 10?

I am having an issue with a tile that never disappears from my windows machine. This is very annoying since I cannot access the things behind the tile. This has been happening for some days now. A ...
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My Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones are connected to Windows 7 and an iPad: how can I prevent Windows 7 from muting the audio coming from the iPad?

My Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones are connected to Windows 7 and some iPad (iPad Pro MM172LL/A): how can I prevent Windows 7 from muting the audio coming from the iPad? Even when no audio is ...
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Bluetooth sound interruptions during RDP session

I frequently connect from one laptop to another via RDP and experience problems with sound output. I play music via Bluetooth speaker and every time I do any thing on client/server that possibly ...
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Automatically switch default sound device when bluetooth headset switches between stereo and handsfree modes [duplicate]

Bluetooth headsets in general (or just most of them?) can only do one of the following: Play stereo sound (or "high quality" sound in general) Play mono/restricted sound and take mic input ...
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Windows 10: music fades a lot when another sound plays at the same time

I am using Windows 10 Pro 1903. My problem is that if I am (for example) playing music and another sound, like a notification, plays at the same time, the original audio (the music) fades down for a ...
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Foobar playing too fast in linux wine (pulse audio alsa underrun error)

When running multiple apps under heavy cpu and file transfer load (like rsync), foobar starts playing very fast (like 10x speed).
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Headphones not detecting in Windows 7 64 Bit HP laptop

I have recently installed windows 7 64 bit on my HP laptop. I have download from this link. The issue I am facing is I am not able to configure the laptop to detect headphone. I tied to go to device ...
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How do I mass-modify the bit rate of WAV files?

I have about 200-250 WAV files that I need to work with in Unreal Editor for a game mod. The editor wouldn't accept WAV files with a bit rate higher than 768 kbps. Annoyingly, the WAV files are mostly ...
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Occasional Windows stutters/slowdowns

Ever few hours, my computer suddenly stutters. By this I mean: any audio slows down and sounds sort of robotic as if it's replaying the same buffer repeatedly, and simultaneously the mouse travels ...
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Sound is not working on my computer

I have a Windows 10 (1909) desktop with two audio devices connected: regular stereo speakers through the back panel 3.5mm jack, and a webcam with a microphone. If I'm playing music over the stereo ...
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How to duplicate audio device

The situation is as follows: I recently bought Sennheiser GSX 1000. The device has two main modes: 7.1 and 2.1. The 2.1 supports 24bit, 96000Hz (Studio Quality) input. This setting I use for ...
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Audio Switching without promp

My Chromebook has been sporadically switching audio from headphone to internal speaker, going back and forth nonstop without headphones. Is there a setting I need to adjust or possibly a reset?
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Audio via DisplayPort - How do I keep it going when Windows 10 turns the display off?

I have connected my Nvidia GTX 970 to a Dell U2713H monitor via a DisplayPort cable, with speakers plugged in to the monitor's audio out 3.5mm port. I have my Windows 10 power setting set up to turn ...
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Hissing sound from one of the Creative BlasterX Kratos speakers

I recently bought new speakers from Creative, the Sound BlasterX Kratos S3. I don't need outstanding sound as I'm using the speakers sparsely anyway but the problem I encountered is that the left ...
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Applications uses more than 100% of volume

I'm having a little problem with my computer. Some applications on Windows are using more than 100% of volume. I haven't done anything to allow this, just happened randomly at first but now its ...
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Can I increase the volume over 100 on Windows 10 like in Ubuntu

As far as I know, Windows 10 doesn't have this feature and I've checked Loudness Equalization, but it's still too low, and the audio drivers are up to date. Are there any open-source software ...
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Increased headset volume on incoming calls

Question: How do I stop the global headset volume from increasing when a call comes in? Situation: I'm listening to music through my Plantronics Voyager Focus UC headset at a low volume. A call ...
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Custom 3.5mm front audio jacks? Win10, 9-pin MB audio connector [closed]

Not sure if this is the right forum; if not, please feel free to gently redirect me to a more appropriate place to ask this question. I'm not an audiophile, this would mostly be for conference call ...
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