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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How to send commands to a set of headphones via USB?
I recently bought the Edifier W820NB Plus headphones, and they're great. However, there's one major problem: the software.
The only software these headphones have is the Android Edifier app (which BTW ...
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VLC Streams at Higher Sample Rate But Transcodes and Saves to Lower
I am trying to transcode an mpeg4audio stream from a radio station and save the file. I have a headless server I am trying to use cvlc with in order to transcode and save the Stream to a file. Here is ...
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Why is my PC constantly making a "device disconnected" sound?
Why is my device constantly making a "device disconnected" sound? I've been trying every method I could find on Google and still get that issue.
I don't want to just disable the notification,...
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Combine images and draw text on each image with animation xfade
I am using ffmpeg to merge multiple images and an audio to produce a video. I am using drawtext and xfade with dissolve transition. My ffmpeg command is given below.
ffmpeg -loop 1 -t 5 -i ./img/img0....
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Microphone being recognised as a Headphone
I have tried attaching this microphone (3.5mm audio jack) to my android to see if the device was the issue, but it still is not detected. On windows, it comes up as a headphone rather than a ...
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How to identify the optimal SoundFont for a MIDI file?
When I come across a .mid file without any additional details, is there any way to determine which SoundFont it was created with/intended to be heard with, or is it just trial and error?
For example ...
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Control volume with key bindings Windows 11
I want to be able to control volume of specific apps with just a key binding on windows 11. I did find a post suggesting to use VolumeControl on this forum from this user:
https://superuser.com/users/...
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Bluetooth headset no longer available as output device and input device simultaneously
I have a Jabra Evolve 65, which has served me very well for many years. However, it recently developed a curious behavior: it cannot be simultaneously selected as the input device and the output ...
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How make MIDI editors play MIDI on Linux (without external musical device)
How to make MIDI-files play on Linux in editor like Qtractor or MidiEditor?
Why it is not working when vlc can play these MIDI files
Details:
I was able to make vlc play .mid files on Ubuntu 22.04 ...
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Switch Focusrite Scarlett Solo between docked Mac and Pc [closed]
I want to be able to switch my Scarlet solo audio interface between a docked Mac and my PC, so I can use the audio interface during the day on my Mac and at night on my gaming setup.
Here is my ...
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I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 on it. Suddenly, during Microsoft teams calls, the contacts cannot hear my voice. How can I correct?
I believe that I have checked sound and microphone options but I have had no success in making myself audible
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How to install sox for PyTorch audio?
I want to run PyTorch code on Linux. I start a virtual machine on AWS with AMI Deep Learning PyTorch, but, surprisingly, PyTorch is not installed. So I run:
python3 -m pip install torch torchaudio
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ffmpeg make a video from two images and two audio files
I'm trying to create an MP4 video from two images and two mp3 audio files, this is my command:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loop 1 -i incoming/img0.jpeg -loop 1 -i incoming/img1.jpeg -i incoming/aud0.mp3 -i ...
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Combine mutiple WAV files into a big multi-channel WAV file
I have some files that are a 7.1 mix of a song. The problem is that they're all separate like this:
1-2 Left Right
3 Center
4 Subwoofer
5-6 Left Right Surround
7-8 Left Right Rear Surround
9-10 Left ...
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Audio lagging when no screen updates are happening in VirtualBox?
I've got a VirtualBox VM on Arch Linux running Mac OS X 10.6, and when it plays audio, if my cursor is still and nothing on the guest display is moving/updating, the audio starts lagging. If I shake ...
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USB C headset (Huawei) only recognised on Windows 11 once after PC restart, after subsequent unplugging and plugging in not recognised anymore
I encountered a most peculiar problem. I have a Huawei USB C headset (don't know the model, bought it second hand). It works fine with my Fairphone 4, sound, mic, volume keys, everything. On my ...
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Route audio output of one program to another program's input [closed]
I am a HF/SW radio listener. I listen to hams and pirate radio broadcasters often, both use SSTV and data modes. I use a RSP1A and a Windows 10 computer and I would like to run the audio output of ...
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Wireplumber on Artix OpenRC doesn't detect audio devices unless i run it manually inside the user
yesterday I was messing with my Artix Linux installation (I'm using OpenRC as the init, KDE Plasma as the DE and SDDM), and i needed to change the audio server from PulseAudio to PipeWire.
I installed ...
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ffmpeg video encoding has no audio
When I convert any video in ffmpeg - e.g. mp4 to mkv, mkv to mkv - I lose audio for some reason
here are the parameters I originally used:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf scale=640x480 -vcodec libx264 -...
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Wireless USB mouse dongle causes in built speaker not to work?
I have this HP Elitebook G4 laptop with Conexant ISST Audio speaker. I also have a wireless mouse that has a USB dongle that goes into the a USB port on the right side of the laptop. The mouse and ...
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Solve this download this AES based video using FFmpeg or unallow or ytdlp [duplicate]
URL AEX based:
=https://d2qny97nu4rj64.cloudfront.net/spees/w/o/650ab70fe4b0471d0391422e/v/65366496e4b05b0642d4cee9/u/653cb8c2e4b01fb9c8f07022/t/d13bdcb072a555bec6773cc7af5c8724/p/assets/videos/...
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What could be causing static on HDMI Audio with Pulseaudio
Using Yocto Hardknott release, I am running Pulseaudio version 14.2 on the kernel version 5.10.72.
I use the module-combine-sink to stream audio to both Lineout and HDMI simultaneously.
About 50% of ...
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How to Remove Speaker Output from Microphone Input (Without General Noise Removal)?
Given a setup running Windows 11 on a desktop computer with a microphone and a set of room speakers, how can I set up a software filter to remove the audio being played back on those speakers from the ...
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How to import and exchange a macOS Personal Voice?
macOS 14 (Sonoma) introduced Personal Voice, the ability to create a model of one's voice to be used with Live Speech accessibility feature (text-to-speech synthesis).
The training involves recording ...
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Asus Xonar D1 Loses Sound On One Of The Channels
This is in reference to the question in the link below.
Asus Xonar D1 looses sound on one of the channels
Piff suggests installing the following driver. UNi-Xonar-STXII-11.5-v1.80b-r3.
Does anyone ...
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Headphones/splitter issue: Sounds okay in the right ear, but it is extremely low in the left ear
I have some headphones which work just fine on my PlayStation, computer, etc.
However, when I plug them into my splitter (and another device was connected), only half of it was working.
It sounds okay ...
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win10 Remote Desktop Connect audio recording devices disappear
before I RDP into my laptop, the audio devices tab looks like this:
But when I use the Remote Desktop Connection Manager program on my win10 desktop, and connect to the laptop, the recording devices ...
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Play single mp3 through specific Pipewire device via shell command
I'm trying to figure out a way to play a single mp3 file through a specific Pipewire output device via a shell command.
Only this one file should be played through that device. I don't want to change ...
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Remote desktop audio lag
Why when using remote desktop, when playing a video, my keyboard executions are almost perfectly in sync with the image on the screen, but the there is like a 1 second audio delay and sometimes 2 ...
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How to install sound driver on Ubuntu 20.04?
I've installed nvidea drivers:
sudo ubuntu-drivers install
After that I lost network adapter and sound drivers. I've solved problem with network driver, but I can't find any information what to do ...
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OrangePi Zero 3 apparently can't recognize USB Audio Device in Debian 12
I recently purchased a OrangePi Zero 3 4Gb with expansion board to connect to my Xiegu X6100 ricetrans to run FT8 connections via WSJT-X application.
Unfortunately the connection OrangePi Zero 3 with ...
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I am unable to record in windows 7 ultimate 32 bits [duplicate]
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I have the following problem on Windows 7.
The built-in microphone on my laptop does not seem to be working. Either that (i.e., the mic hardware is not working) or it may be a software problem, i.e.,...
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It is really possible to record stereo from WASAPI like Audacity does on ffmpeg or maybe can be implemented?
I'm using a windows 10 pc where isn't available the Stereo Mix or What you Hear option... it is not hidden or disable, is completely non existent.
Given I don't want to install some external filters ...
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How to increase/decrease decibels of recorded audio tracks with FFmpeg?
I'm using the following command to record the desktop with FFmpeg, as well as two audio sources:
"virtual-audio-capturer"
"Microphone (Logitech USB Headset)"
ffmpeg -f gdigrab -i ...
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Route two audio inputs into one
I need to use two inputs (microphone and virtual monitor) and create one input from it, in order to use one single input in discord. Currently using Arch Linux and pulseaudio.
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FFmpeg loudnorm: what does dynamic mode mean?
I have numerous audios that i'd like to normalize by the same reference with FFmpeg loudnorm filter. But every time I do the 1st pass of normalization, normalization type reverts to "dynamic"...
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The microphone does not work on my Optiplex 3080 mini
As the title says, The microphone cannot be detected on the universal audio port. I've been struggling with this issue for a while now since all computers at my company use this and have not been able ...
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Using ffmpeg and concat demuxer producing weird video navigation behaviour
When combining multiple videos segments, each encoded with H265 and Vorbis and containing the same number of streams and frame rate, I use:
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i mylist.txt -c copy output.mkv
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Spliting video with ffmpeg producing wrong durations
I'm currently using a framework where I have to split a video (originally encoded with HEVC video and AAC audio) in multiple parts to process them separately. Then the final result is obtained by ...
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Win11 suddenly plays 'She', cannot find responable Application
My Computer is suddenly playing the song 'She' in an endless loop (54 sec. loop time). This is worrying as I want to be sure that I am not hacked. She could refer to the movie 'She' as well....
I just ...
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Audio interface huge blast of distortion every couple seconds to minute
for the past year I've been having trouble with audio through audio interfaces. Scarlette solo 2nd gen and then a Scarlette solo 3rd gen (one after the other). Every couple seconds when sound is going ...
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Windows 10, Volume does not change unless audio is playing
I am using a sony bluetooth headset and when I press the buttons on the headset to increase or decrease the volume. It does not change unless there is audio playing on my PC.
How can I change it so ...
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Bluetooth keeps disconnecting my headset
I have a headset that I use most of the day. For some reason, it, or the bluetooth service itself keeps disconnecting the device. Sometimes I can reconnect, but other times the bluetooth & other ...
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Aggregate audio device can't record voice call
I am using Blackhole on a Mac. Typically I wear headphones during a Zoom meeting or a voice call (like WeChat). Wired or wireless headphones do not make any difference as far as I have tried.
In the ...
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Change Default Master Volume Control to "PCM" in alsamixer on Linux Mint
I am running Linux Mint and whenever I use my system's hardware volume controls (e.g., volume up/down buttons), it adjusts the "PCM 1" level in alsamixer. However, I want it to adjust the &...
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how to run flatpak app without audio output
I'm using a flatpak app whose desktop notifications I find useful in general, but too loud and annoying to endure all day long. It's an electron app showing up as "Chromium" in my OS's sound ...
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Change sound output device to different version of the same device
I have some wirless bluetooth headphones.
How can I change between the different output version of this same device that shows up twice in my Playback devices.
I want to connect to the other version ...
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How do I enable audio in a xrdp session
I'm connecting to a remote device running ubuntu 22.04 + kde + xrdp.
My understanding is that, to get audio forwarded through rdp, I need to install a pulseaudio plugin for xrdp. So far I've tried:
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Temporary disconnection of wireless headset mutes VLC's (and only VLC's) audio until VLC is rewound. How to debug?
When I am wearing my wireless headset and I walk outside of its range for just a moment (enough for me to not be able to hear the audio, but not enough for a permanent wireless disconnect), VLC will ...
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windows 10 Audio Bug - Red x on speaker icon
I'm having a red x on speaker icon. I know few manual way to fix this but this is not permanent solutions. I have to try these steps every time I reboot the PC.
This is a bug that has been reported ...
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