Play music to bluetooth, but system sounds to internal speakers

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

How do I set up Qjackctl without using the terminal?

I can now open Qjackctl using the terminal. This is the code that I am using. pulseaudio –kill jack_control start This will open the program successfully. Then when I am finished I can type this code: jack_control exit pulseaudio –start It takes a little bit of typing, but it works. How do I save the … Read more

no hardware listed in sound settings, but audio works, failed after selecting a different output. 13.04

The audio was working fine, all hardware listed, but I made the mistake of selecting a different output. The audio stopped working, for a while, I reinstalled pulseaudio and managed to get sound back. However, no hardware is listed in the sound settings, either input or output… all greyed out! Is there a way to … Read more

Almost every CLI music player doesn’t work (in an SSH terminal)

Goal: Play music on a server, preferably using cmus, using SSH for player control. First try: cmus I run cmus in a terminal, literally nothing happens. It just loads (i guess). Tried cmus -vvvvv – Also just loads. Tried this and this – No changes to the issue. But: running it from a physical terminal … Read more

How do I get the Tascam US122L USB audio interface to work?

I have a Tascam US122L (NOT US122). I’ve spent hours trying to get this to work but it just won’t detect in Pulse Audio Volume Control. I’ve installed the Alsa firmware and Alsa firmware loaders and updated to the latest Kernel (3.16). I added my user to the audio group and modified the limits.conf file … Read more

No sound after kernel update / ubuntu 14.04 x64

I upgraded a couple of days ago to the latest kernel: uname -a Linux tirith 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hadn’t use the box much, but today i realized i have no sound. I tried reinstalling alsa, alsa-utils, alsa-base, pulseaudio completly with no results. Alsamixer recognizes fine … Read more

How to switch between audio outputs when both headphones and speakers are connected?

I have the M5A97 motherboard, with the audio ports displayed on this picture: As you can see on the part labelled “Audio”, there are 6 jacks. By default, the pink one is configured to be the microphone input, and the green one to be the speakers output. (I think some others are also outputs but … Read more

Configure pulseaudio default input port

My laptop (running Pop_OS 20.04, kernel 5.4 — it’s a Ryzen and works very poorly with any older kernel) pretends to have 2 microphones: a “digital microphone” (that never does anything) and an “headphones microphone” (that works just fine). However at some point pulse audio decided that the default input was the useless (AFAIK non … Read more