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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How can I mix and map sound channels in Windows?
The built-in windows mixer, which can be accessed through Volume Control, allows users to change the output volumes of individual applications. I would like something similar but with additional ...
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Why do my speakers get distorted randomly on Windows 7?
I have a studio monitor setup. I have 2 KRK 6's and a Focusrite Firewire Pro 24.
Every few hours my speakers sound distorted and my solution has been go to sound levels > Properties of Saffire Audio ...
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Normal Stereo Output to ALL Speakers
I have headphones and some simple AmazonBasics stereo speakers (like $13).
They both work great. The AmazonBasics speakers are amplified, powered by USB or batteries. The headphones (Razer), ...
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How to configure Mac OS X Snow Leopard to automatically connect to my Bluetooth Speakers for sound output?
I have a bluetooth speaker that I use for audio output on Snow Leopard (the Sony SRS-BT100). Generally I like it, except for one thing:
When my laptop wakes from sleep it does not automatically ...
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Add sound to keystrokes in iTerm2 / zsh
I've been searching for quite a while now, but haven't found anything. I want to spice my terminal up a bit more than just colorizing it – I also want to add specific sounds to keystrokes, newlines ...
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Thinkpad speaker turns mute - Linux Codec issue?
At some point a few days ago the speakers on my Lenovo Thinkpad T410 (Model number: 2537A11) suddenly stopped working randomly. This error happens every time I watch a video or listen to a music file. ...
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How is pulseaudio stitched together?
OK. Pre-post note; this became ugly long, - but the core of an problem is that I'm unable to find good articles or diagrams and explanations on this. There is a lot of "how too"s, but I'm having a ...
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How to find wireless headphones in a given broadcast frequency
I have a wireless microphone system connected to an amp, speakers, recording equipment, etc, in a lecture hall. A couple of the students have difficulty hearing (even sitting close to the speakers) ...
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Convert Bluetooth Headset to 3.5mm Stereo Out And Mic In (Duplex)
I know stereo 3.5mm jack to Bluetooth dongles exist for Bluetooth headphones.
But what if this is for a Bluetooth headset with a Mic?
Are there Bluetooth dongles for line-in also?
For example, my ...
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Is there an app that translates audio from one language into another?
I have a video in French, that I want to translate the audio into English. It doesn't have to be perfect. I already understand what's going on in the video but a simple translation like Google's text ...
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How do I “force” surround sound in audio properties of Windows 7?
I am running Windows 7 Professional on the 15" MacBook Pro Retina.
I have the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro, which is a USB sound card, and I enabled THX TruStudio Pro to enable virtual ...
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Stream live audio with noise filter in Linux
I need to strip the noise from an audio source, but it needs to happen live.
The resulting voice doesn't need to sound perfect, it just can't contain too much noise.
I've read up about sox, but it ...
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Cannot get RECON3D Fatal1ty Card to be recognized by the system
I just bought a Recon3D Fatal1ty sound card (Pro) by creative for my computer. I have removed onboard sound and disabled the sound chip in my video card. From what I have read, once you plug it in to ...
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Problems with bluetooth headset on fedora 17
I tried bluetooth-wizard and bluedevil. It didn't work. I'm trying to use my bluetooth headset on my Dell Inspiron 1525, running Fedora 17, using a dongle. lsusb lists the dongle as follows:
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How do I use wine's new multi-channel audio support?
Wine supposedly added Multi-channel support to the ALSA driver in a recent release. However, I haven't found any documentation about it or any reports of anyone successfully using it. I have 5.1 ...
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mic controlling all sound | can't use audio without mic on (feedback)
Internal mic on thinkpad x201 (XP) has screeching feedback.
When the mic is turned mute (no way to totally disable), the result: nothing at all can be heard even though other features are not ...
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HDMI with ATI graphics and MB sound. Discrete sound card have any value?
Two questions:
With ATI video cards and HDMI, how much sound processing is handled
my the video card itself?
Would a discrete sound card using the same HDMI setup have any noticeable effect on ...
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Multiple HDMI Audio Devices in Windows 7
Question: How do I determine which audio capable display gets sound when I chose "HDMI Audio Device" from Playback Devices?
Desired End Result: A three monitor setup with a TV being a clone of one of ...
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How can I stream audio signals from various devices/computers to my home server?
I currently have a headless home server set up (running Ubuntu 12.04 server edition) running a simple Apache HTTP server. The server is near an audio receiver, which controls a set of indoor and ...
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Checking audio output levels per channel in Windows 7
I've got a new 5.1 channel headset, and am in the process of testing and adjusting it. How can I check the output levels per channel? I'd also be interested in seeing a breakdown of the output by ...
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Small soft bursts of static and volume drops, is my audio hardware faulty?
I'm running Windows 7 using onboard audio. It's been fine for over 2 years but lately there's a problem every time I play audio. I only use WMP since it's the only player I've ever used with this pc.
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How to Stream Music from one system to another via Wifi
just tried out Microsoft's Mouse without Borders and found it really handy , as I am able to work on my Laptop while running other applications on my PC.
Would be really awesome , if I could have all ...
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How to balance volume on Windows
I can't figure out how to get a good balance on the applications within windows so I can stop modifying volume settings every time I get on a Google Hangout, watch Netflix, Hulu, instant message, play ...
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How to get Quadraphonic audio channel option in Speaker Setup?
I recently installed Windows 7 as the OS for a PC that I'm using as a media center running XBMC. Initially I only put in 2 speakers. Now I've added rear speakers. The soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live ...
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Audio delay problem with ffmpeg and parec
I need to record desktop audio and video in an automated way. So I wrote a small multithreaded python script which basically does the following steps:
# 1.) Grab desktop audio
AUDIO_SRC=`LANG=c ...
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Default Audio Output Device Selector
I have a laptop with a HDMI port that I am using at home to connect to a big monitor with speakers. When at home, I want my default audio out to be HDMI. However I also take my laptop to work with ...
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Quick way to find out how much silence is at the start of an MP3?
What's a quick and easy way to find out how much silence is at the start of an MP3? I know there's a lot that goes into that... I don't need anything too precise. Within 50 or so milliseconds is ...
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What program to use to save audio CDs to a shared drive?
We are converting old audio cassettes and saving them on CDs but for preservation purposes.
We would like to save them to a shared drive and then link to a MARC format library record. Does anyone ...
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Windows program start with specified audio level
Is there a way for a windows program to start up such that its audio level (as seen in the volume mixer) is at a specified level? Simply being able to remember its previous level from when last run ...
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Remote Desktop: Streaming audio on both computer
When I connect to my other computer using rdp, I have three choices: listen audio from my remote desktop, listen audio to my client computer, or don't listen to audio at all.
But I'd like the audio ...
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Recording microphone jack in Ubuntu
Greetings, I'm attempting to record Live TV from a TV capture card to FLV files with FFmpeg. When I first started on this project 2 weeks ago I was expecting something quit simple. Yet, so far I've ...
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No Audio Output Device is installed
this is an intermitent problem in my Sony Vaio model PCG-5K1L. I keep on getting a "No Audio Output Device is installed" when hovering my loudspeaker icon in Windows Vista.
I have tried System >> ...
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Making volume display not show up on screen when using logitech video
Making volume display not show up on screen when using logitech video
I have a Logitech camera that I use with Gmail chat. When camera is active and working. Whenever a sound is loud enough to be ...
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Control game audio and chat audio separately with keyboard shortcuts
I have Logitech G510 Keyboard with all of these extra "G-Buttons" on the side, is there a way I can put these buttons to use by controlling game/chat volume separately when pressing the buttons?
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Headset Buzzing when laptop power plugged in
I have a Thinkpad Edge E535 Laptop and a Logitech G35 headet. When I use the microphone to record stuff there is a small humming/buzzing sound in the background when the laptop is plugged in to AC. ...
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mix audio with h264 mp4 video with ffmpeg
I have 2 files :
Input #0, wav, from '105426_1.wav':
Duration: 00:00:09.98, bitrate: 1312 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 41000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1312 kb/s
and:
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No video is written in for some part of video as the segmentation from FFmpeg
I am segmenting a 20 minutes long video to hundreds of small clips . The command is like
ffmpeg\\ffmpeg -i nx_1.avi -ss 399.37 -t 1 ka1_2.avi
The ffmpeg is in a subfolder.
It works very well for ...
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Foobar - How to exclude non-music files?
I drop my "Music" folder to foobar2000, all songs are included in the playlist, but also the other files (like album-art.jpg) are also included. When I'm shuffling, those files appear on the list and ...
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need to clean up audio noise using sox
What I am doing right now is recording audio from my mic using arecord and piping the raw output to VLC like so:
arecord -r 8000 - | vlc -vvv -
It works great, except the audio that is coming out ...
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Windows 7 lowering volume without my consent
Sometimes when several system sounds play at once, Windows 7 will forcibly lower their volume even though I have disabled automatic volume reduction in Sound -> Communications.
In my case, I have ...
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Can I play audio on my speakers and headset at the same time?
I was wondering if it is possible to use both my speakers and headset at the same time, but for different programs. For example, I would like my headset to be on skype, but i'd also like my speakers ...
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Windows 8 audio stutters. DPC Latency high on tcpip.sys
I own a Intel Core i5 760 CPU based PC. 16Gb of RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7850, Asus Xonar DSX audio card, and a Creative Sound Blaster Sigma headset (with USB audio device). It's just to enumerate all my ...
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Problems maintaining connection to bluetooth headset in Windows 8
Until a few days ago I was using a bluetooth headset (Plantronics Voyager PLT510) regularly and without issue in Windows 7, primarily for making calls in Google Talk. I then upgraded to Windows 8 and ...
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YouTube web no sound but VLC has sound
On Windows 7, in YouTube web client (in latest Chrome) - videos play, but without sound. IIRC, they used to play with sound some days earlier on the same machine. Pretty sure I did not change any ...
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Front Pannel Audio Cracking and malfunctioning in general
I just finished my first desktop build and I am experiencing some problems with the front audio jack that I can't seem to be able toresolve.
The audio seems to be there, but it sounds distorted with ...
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Two music streams in one session
I have been trying to see if I can make the following work in linux (technically, Redhat/Centos or even Fedora): I want my system sounds to be sent to my speakers. I want my music to be sent to my ...
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Problems with headphones in linux
I can't get sound through headphone port on laptop.
I use HP Compaq 6730b with Linux Debian Squeeze on board.
On Windows 7 (another PC) headphones work normally.
Internal laptop speakers also work ...
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Reinstalled Windows 7, sound won't play through headphone jack
So I recently reinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition, and though my computer plays sound through the speakers, when I plug any earbuds or headphones into the headphone jack I can't hear ...
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Windows microphone has some weird distortion over it
I'm a Windows 7 user, I have a USB headset that has been working perfectly fine for some time until recently. Now the microphone adds some kind of distortion to the sound. And another weird thing is, ...
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FFmpeg audio disappears in the middle of the video
I've been trying to convert a sequence of PNG files to a video with some sound (mp3 or wav). It pretty much works with different codecs and quality settings for both video and audio.But the audio ...
