Questions tagged [sound-card]
A computer device for inputting and outputting audio.
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Is there any way to trick the kernel think the sound card is ALC898 and not 897?
Recently I upgraded my computer with AsRock Z790 Pro RS. This motherboard comes with Realtek ALC897 which has no support in the linux kernel yet. As you can see in this link ALC897 is not listed. ...
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Connect Sony HT-S20R to Windows and disable front speakers
I have Sony HT-S20R 5.1 sound system. It has HDMI ARC (currently connected to TV), 3mm audio and SPDIF jack (connected to laptop)
My desk is very close to front speakers and it's very annoying to ...
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Connect speaker to Windows on 5.1 channel?
I have Sony HT-S20R 5.1 sound system. and my laptop is Clevo N957TP6
I have tried Analog audio port, digital audio port, realtek driver, Creative Sound Blaster. But I still get only 2.0 channel.
I ...
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"Your speakers aren't working", but they are
I have this strange problem where Teams says it can't output audio in calls (microphone works fine), while any other application in the system can output audio perfectly
During the call I try to go to ...
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Ways to mute audio interface's recording device via Windows Sound Control Panel
Environment: Windows 10
Device: Teyun Q12 audio interface
What happens: In Sound Control Panel > Recording tab > Right-clicking the interface's recording device > Levels tab > Clicking the ...
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Virtual Audio Cable (VAC)
I have had Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) before and it would make 1 line and I would add one more to geve me 2 lines. But now the program make two number 1lines. and when I make the number 2 line it give ...
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How can I get pc speaker audio out into iphone mic in as cheaply as possible?
I am trying to use my Shure sm7b as the microphone for my VOIP calls on my iphone. The app I use for VOIP calls is only available on iOS. I have an adapter to connect my Focusrite Solo audio interface ...
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How do you set the default sound device at the shell prompt in pipewire?
Related to this question and this question but with Pipewire not pulse audio (unless it is the same, but pacmd doesn't work):
How do you set the default output device (the radio button below) at the ...
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BlissOS 14 no sound
I installed BlissOS 14 today and so far everything works fine, except the sound. I've made some Google search, and everything suggested did not work. Now I have found a post (Android x86 select Sound ...
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USB DAC stopped working after the removal of dedicated GPU
TL;DR; My USB DAC stopped working after uninstalling my dedicated GPU.
My PC is running with an i5 12600k and a GTX 1080. Yesterday one of the GPU's fans stopped working, so I uninstalled it and ...
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Trying to narrow down the cause of a Bluetooth headphone app-specific sound issue
So before I go on in length let me just say that this problem has been fixed on a practical level. The reason I'm still attacking the problem is that the fixes make absolutely no sense to me and I'm ...
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How to convert PCIe3 to PCIe2 using a PCI adapter
I have a new HP Z2 G9 workstation featuring the following expansion slots:
1 PCIe 3 x4 (x16 connector); 1 PCIe 3 x4 (x4 connector); 1 M.2 2230 PCIe 3 x1; 1 M.2 2280 PCIe 4 x4; 1 M.2 2280 PCIe 3 x4; 1 ...
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How to Play Video file with E-AC3 audio to Amplifier with AC3
I have HTPC that I play movies that I download from the internet.
The file format I am using is *.MKV.
My amplifier is capable of playing DTS & AC3 formats.
I have Windows 10 on the HTPC and use ...
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Windows 11 X64-PRO Sound organization
I'm fighting with sound organization & routing inside my PC Computer running Windows 11 X64-Pro.
I have an external MOTU-M2 sound card, it connects to the computer via a USB-C, and to another USB ...
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HDA audio in Qemu for FreeBSD 14
I just installed Qemu in my Linux, and created a virtual machine, and installed FreeBSD 14 on it.
I just enabled HDA audio in the Qemu command line (as seen below), but it doesn't work in the virtual ...
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Controll Room output from audio mixture as a mic to Mobile phone
A local discourse group nearby me uses PreSonus StudioLive AR8 USB 8-Channel hybrid Performance and Recording Mixer during discourse meetings every week with offline audiences. This is the picture of ...
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Cannot get any loudness from microphones on Windows 11 laptop
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I am trying to set headphones on a laptop for video meetings.
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Laptop model: Asus ProArt StudioBook H5600QM.
Windows version: 11 Pro 21H2
Headsets: Senheiser GSP 500 and Senheiser GSP ...
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How to use volume keys to change not-master volume up-down in Windows 10?
I have a USB soundcard with Toslink (S/PDIF) output under Windows 10 and as such master volume does nothing. Looking at Audio quality via S/PDIF this is not at all unexpected. I can control the volume ...
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Can a Headset (microphone+audio) work with a USB soundcard?
I see most USB sound-cards have 2 inputs (audio and microphone) but I have a headset (2 in 1).
What can I do?
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Noisy sound on Windows 10
The problem: When I let sound play (from Spotify, videogames, making music...) for some time, what seems like white noise eventually appears.
My setup:A desktop running windows 10, with an external ...
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3.5mm PCIe Headset sound card I.e.same as laptop - not seperate mic socket
I recently built a few new PC's for our home and buying budget motherboards I was surprised I couldn't find any with headset output either for front panel or rear panel connections (its been 5 years ...
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How to determine maximum software volume output
We have a rather unique setup for some experiments that involves a copper coil hooked up to a couple of amplifiers, which are hooked up to an external sound card, which are hooked up to a laptop (via ...
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Distorted sound on Fedora 36
I am using Fedora 36 on my ThinkPad x250.
The output of the speakers is quite low therefore I tried tweaking it using Alsamixer.
However, the results were not satisfying hence, I used other solutions ...
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loopback/listen to Line In, ALSA/Pulseaudio
I have 2 computers, and one set of headphones. When I used Windows on my desktop PC I could simply select Listen to and it would pipe the Line In input to the default output device. I don't see a way ...
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Need a solution for USB splitter and soundcard
What I am trying to achieve is to use my sound card changeably, once with a computer, once with a phone. The USB sound card (I think for that case it doesn't matter which one, because the sound is ...
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Would a DAC reduce hissing I hear from headphones?
Even when nothing is playing I hear a lot of hissing and noise in my headphones. They are connected to the front audio jack on a desktop PC. I read that electrical interference is particularly bad at ...
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No Sound on Ubuntu 21.04 Fresh Installation
I just installed ubuntu 21.04 and there is no sound, checked sound settings, Only dummy output is there. I am using a headphone connected with rare jacks on pc.
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Change Soundcard Bit Depth and Sample Rate via Command Line in Windows
Is there a tool, piece of Powershell or similar for changing the bit depth and sample rate of a sound card via the command line in Windows? e.g. a software solution, preferably already found inside ...
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Clicking sound from speakers
I have the following problem on a Ubuntu 20.04.1 desktop machine. I cannot make a test on other operating systems because Ubuntu is the only one installed.
When the OS is not playing any output sounds,...
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Enhancements Tab on Windows 11
I am having issues on my Lenovo ThinkPad E490 laptop running Windows 11. Trying to plug a set of plug and play headphones via the 3.5 mm jack the sound comes out of them but not at the expected ...
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No Sound in Kali Linux 2021.4 on [ASUS TUF B560M Plus]
Hello I fresh installed Kali linux 2021.4 but it has no sound, [It was working on Windows]
However I tried some stuff suggested by community:
Added Following Lines in .bashrc
pulseaudio -D
clear
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Lenovo Legion T5 26AMR5 crackling sound when external sound card is plugged in via USB
I bought a new Lenovo gaming PC and when I plugged in my external sound card via USB, my speaker started crackling. After a couple of days of googling I tried different things but they did not work.
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Play Movie with 2 languages simultaneously
I know that a similiar question has been asked on how to achieve this in Linux. However this Question was asked 5 years ago and maybe there is a more convenient way to do this. Furthermore, if ...
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No sound, recent Debian 11 upgrade, NVidia sound card
I'm a relative newbie with Debian and I hope someone can help me with my problem:
I've recently installed Debian 10 on my Dell G3 15 3590. I've tried downloading all the necessary firmware for the ...
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Can PC hardware affect internal audio capture?
Put another way, if I'm having some audio output static issues, and I record my internal desktop audio using something like OBS, virtual audio cable, or stereo mix, and the static is present in the ...
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Windows 10, Sound rise to 90 when plugging audio device
Each time I plug an audio device with a sound card, windows automatically switch to this card (ok, why not) but also rise the volume level to 90 which lead to hurt my ears and my speakers (it does ...
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Use magnet to attach external usb soundcard to case "good" idea? [closed]
A bit "extraordinary" for sure and I wanted to ask if i have to expect some bad coming out of it ^^
I want to use this external soundcard:
https://www.thomann.de/de/...
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How to discover where a software user interaction sound file is located when it's being played from an application?
I wish to modify a sound that plays when a user clicks a selection in a piece of software (Grid 3). Currently, it's a 'mouse click' sound, so I can presume it's not synthesized on the fly (like a ...
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What is the difference between hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 and hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1?
Show info on my sound card:
aplay -L
default
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
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Does sound card not contain audio processor?
list all PCI devices related with audio:
lspci |grep -i audio
09:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio Controller
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Using the sound card of a DVD player with a surround sound system for my monitor [closed]
I've recently acquired a DVD player with a built-in 5+1 Surround sound system from a family member. I have been using streaming services quite awhile now so I really don't need a DVD player. However I ...
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Is there any way to funnel one playback device's audio into another?
I'm wanting to use my Sound Blaster Z SE's features (like Scout Mode), but funnel the resulting audio into my HyperX headset with surround sound. I know optical out to a headset supporting optical ...
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Audio Cuts Out, Replaced by Loud Hiss, from MSI Motherboard
I have a new MSI z590 Torpedo motherboard on a (mostly) new build. Using the TOSLINK audio output, the sound will work normally for some time but suddenly and randomly the sound will cut out and a ...
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Failsafe Against Slips During Audio Programming
As described in this video, it seems to be very easy to produce dangerous audio volumes (both to speakers and hearing) with Pure Data when even a slight slip or oversight occurs.
The advice given in ...
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Read jack splitter as two separate devices
I ran out of jack output connectors on my pc, and I recently bought a jack splitter to connect another sound card (my second monitor which requires a VGA connection).
The problem is, and I can't ...
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Is the digital PC output volume controlled?
Until now I use only the analoge output of my PC with Widows 10 and ASUS motherboard.
The motherboard has also S/PDIF digital output. I think about using that output, converted to AES3, to connect ...
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On board sound card is not being detected by my PC
I've just finished my first build, everything was working fine until a corrupted driver forced me to reinstall windows clean. Now my onboard sound is not working at all. It is basically not being ...
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Windows 10 laptop sound problems
I have had this laptop (Windows 10 pro Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming - core i7 9th generation) for about 2 years now. But lately I've been experiencing sound problems (no sound at all coming out of my ...
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How to play an audio file on a specific soundcard output on OS X
I would like to play sound files Wav/Mp3 on a specified channel of a multichannel output on OSX.
Unfortunatley afplay does not allow me to specify its output on osx as aplay does on linux.
Looking for ...
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Why does sound come speakers and headphones at the same time?
I have a Lenovo 3000 n100. I did a replacement on the motherboard. I installed a fresh windows 7 and updated all the drivers. But I have a weird problem with my laptop. I am not getting any beeps when ...
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