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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I can play “test” sounds, but no other audio works
I'm running Windows XP, and last night my PC was infected by a frustrating virus (one of those viruses that won't let you open virus checkers, etc). I finally killed it 2 hours later, but it involved ...
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Sound plays on headphones and speakers with Lenovo ThinkPad L512 + Ubuntu 10
The only thing really missing from this install is this issue with the sound. I've searched all over the forums and i found one thing where you get the model and codecs and write them to a file, ...
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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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Looking for audio compositing software
I'm looking for free software for compositing audio, specifically for making music, that has a UI similar to the node-based compositing UIs of Blender, Maya etc, but for audio rather than images. I've ...
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Panasonic CF-31, rhel 6 audio issue with headphone
I have installed RHEL 6 in Panasonic Cf-31 Mk1. The sound come from internal speaker but there is no sound from headphone jack. MIC works absolutely fine. Can anyone please suggest the solution for ...
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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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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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Distortion on human voices but not music
I bought a Dell Inspiron N4110, the sound plays fine from the speaker, but when I plug my earphone (which has the 4-segment TRRS jack, i.e. stereo+mic) then human speech gets distorted although ...
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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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Java sound doesn't work under Linux
I just installed Fedora 12 and after downloading and running the Java Sound Demo I get exceptions. If I run just a vanilla Java program that plays a .wav file it runs silently with no sound and no ...
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How to disable sound of certain applications?
I hate it when games sometimes play music while being installed.
Is there an easy way to ban selected applications from outputting sound on Windows 7?
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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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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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Mystery: High-pitched buzz coming from computer—it's not from a fan!
As I speak, freshly-built computer has only two fans spinning: the power supply fan, and the CPU fan. The harddrive is an SSD.
Putting my ear up to the power supply, the sound is clearly not coming ...
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Extracting audio from MP4 video into MP3
I downloaded a few MP4-encoded videos from which I'd like to extract the audio stream into MP3 files for easy listening on my digital player.
Most likely, VLC can do this, but the instructions ...
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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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Audio doesn't work on Windows XP guest (WS 7.0)
I can't get audio to work with on a Windows XP guest running on VMware Workstation 7.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 host.
Windows fails to produce any audio output and the Windows device manager says the ...
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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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Why isn't sox able to convert to mp3?
I installed Sox, i installed lame-398, but sox is not able to convert any file to mp3. It fails with the messages:
./../sox FAIL util: Unable to load LAME encoder library (libmp3lame).
./../sox ...
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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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Virtual Microphone and skype
I need to have at least one microphone on Windows to make Skype calls, but i have a VPS with Windows 2003 server with no audio device.
I googled a lot and finally i found something called "Virtual ...
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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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Change sound volume of host when using remote desktop in Windows 7/8
I constantly play music on my actual machine while working on others via remote desktop. I've noticed that on both my laptop and desktop machines, using the keyboard volume control buttons won't ...
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How can I get the headphone playback device back?
In Windows 7 64 bit, in my playback devices, I used to have Stereo for speakers and headphones. I upgraded my drivers to RealTek's latest, restarted my PC, and I lost the headphone playback device.
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Converting a .mp4 file throws “Resampling with input channels greater than 2 unsupported.” error
I am trying to convert a mp4 file into flv with 2 audio channels & sample rate of 44.1 Khz (because .flv does not allow higher than that). Here is the pastebin for the error.
As seen from the ...
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How to disable MS GS WAVETABLE synth? or what is occuping it?
I have a small(?) issue program. A friend of mine has a computer with the following specs:
Creative XtremeMusic soundcard (latest x-fi drivers, the complete package)
USB Midimate 2 (usb midi ...
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How to extract clear voice from a noisy audio file?
I have some noisy audio files, which are voice recordings or lectures. There is no music, but the recordings are noisy.
Sometimes, the voice is not clear. Is there any software that can extract the ...
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Audio server with best API? [closed]
I'm a web dev, working in a small studio with a couple of other devs and some crayon-munchers (or, "designers"). Like all the best and trendiest creative studios, we have tunes. Our tunes consists of ...
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I want to use my mobile phone to play audio from my computer using Bluetooth
How can I connect my mobile phone to a computer over Bluetooth, so I can play sound using the phone's speaker?
I would like to do two things using Bluetooth:
Play computer audio over the mobile ...
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No sound from Java web applet
Using Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers on Ubuntu 9.10, I am unable to get any sound out from Java (version 6 update 15) on Runescape or WebSDR.
I'm only interested in getting WebSDR working ...
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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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Sony Bravia (KDL-32EX402) audio connection fails
Hey. I'm having trouble connecting my computers audio to the TV (Sony Bravia KDL-32EX402).
I'm using a standard AUX cable (some kind of adapter for L/R to go into the headphone plug on the computer). ...
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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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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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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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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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How to use HDMI display device audio output without extending the desktop to that device?
I have 3 screens connected to my video card. Two of the screens use the DVI connection and the third uses the HDMI connection. The screen on the HDMI connection has integrated speakers, so I want to ...
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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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Transmit Audio while Screen Sharing with TeamViewer
I recently started to use TeamViewer 7. This newest version 7 has some new features that supposedly allow to transmit audio. I successfully set it up to transmit MICROPHONE audio from the host to 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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
