I can’t connect A2DP audio sink to my laptop. Blueman says Stream setup failed while connecting to Audio sink. I tried a few solutions I found on the internet but I still can’t hear a sound from my headset. Is there any real good documentation on how bluetootk (does not) work on Ubuntu? I’m quite … Read more
I have Ubuntu Server 14.04 with Xfce desktop on top of it and I want it also to play music with VLC. However, no sound is coming out. There’s also no sound from other media players I installed for testing. What I want is not streaming, but for the sound to come from the server … Read more
So, I wanted to record Five Nights At Freddy’s and then when I played the video, my voice was way louder then the game and literally you cant hear the game sound effects, mostly my voice. I don’t know how it happened, I accidentally left pactl load-module module-loopback on, then I called a friend on … Read more
When I talk in Mumble, people cannot hear me. I can hear myself when enabling a server loopback test, so I don’t think the problem is with my USB mic. I have looked at my mic in alsamixer and PulseAudio Volume Control, and it seems to be working fine. How may I resolve this? Answer … Read more
Ubuntu froze and I was forced to shut it down with brute force (holding the power button). Ever since then the sound settings have disappeared and I am not able to adjust the volume / select the output and etc. There is sound, the only thing missing is the settings for it. Here is a … Read more
A few days ago, everything with my HDMI was working fine – sound and video. Yesterday, PulseAudio Volume Control no longer detects HDMI output as an audio output – video still works fine. I don’t think I changed any programs or files that would effect this, but running alsamixer now says cannot open mixer: no … Read more
After installing Ubuntu I can’t get any sound out of my laptop unless I plug it into my monitor via HDMI. However, out of the speakers on the laptop there is nothing. How can I fix this? Answer It’s most likely due to which sound device is selected for play through. Left click on the … Read more
I hit mute a couple of times. The mixer shows its unmuted, the menu for the tray icon shows its unmuted, but the on-screen display thinks its muted and no sound plays. I restarted. The tray icon shows muted. I unmuted it, but there is no sound. I then went to KDE and unmuted. This … Read more
When I connect my Bluetooth speakers, all audio goes to bluetooth. I would like only music to be routed to the bluetooth speakers, but all other audio from the system (alarms, skype, audio in firefox, whatever…) to still be played through the computer’s internal speakers. Is this possible? (I currently have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and … Read more
when I play some audio files, like university lectures, Ubuntu plays them at a higher speed. Can anyone help? Cheers Answer The player you use will make an assumption about the sample rate, but this being a university lecture, it may have been sampled at a lower rate, resulting in lower sound quality. You may … Read more
