Questions tagged [alsa]
For questions pertaining to ALSA, the Linux sound subsystem. ALSA sits below advanced systems like PulseAudio.
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Is it possible to override OmxPlayer's volume in RetroPie/EmulationStation?
I have my RetroPie EmulationStation set up to be 40% volume which makes for some good game volumes on my Picade's speaker. However, for the game snaps, I cannot hear the audio at all.
When I look at ...
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ALSA: Why is the pitch of played sounds too low (½ the original frequency)?
I've just installed a fresh Raspbian Buster on My Raspi 3B+ together with a JustBoom DAC HAT sound card. With the old Raspbian installation, sound output went well after a couple of experiments, but ...
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High-speed USB Audio Streaming
I am using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as the USB host for an embedded device that I have configured to appear as a USB Audio 2.0 compliant microphone.
I am currently using PyAudio for opening and recording ...
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sudo alsa force-reload : command not found
Whenever I give the command "sudo alsa force-reload" it says "sudo: alsa: command not found
". I have raspberry pi 4.
thanks in advance!
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Unable to get Qt5 audio to work using pulseaudio on Rpi 4
I'm on Raspberry pi 4 and the OS is DietPi
I configured ALSA so I could play an audio file successfully through HDMI using aplay [an audio file]
Then launched the PyQt5 app but got PulseAudioService: ...
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simultaneous audio playback is not working
i have raspberrypi4, i flashed webos ose edition in that.
i have connected 2 hdmi displays and play using aplay in hdmi1, hdmi2 and lineout(headphones), I am getting error from aplay.
#cat /proc/...
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Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.1 alsa & jackd Headphone Jack Configuration
My end goal is to do headless remote audio streaming with jacktrip on some older Pi 2 boards using the built-in headphone jack (I know the quality of it is lacking but I don't really care).
To narrow ...
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Sound playback trough bluealsa-aplay not working as a service
I am trying to manually setup my raspberry pi 4 as a Bluetooth audio receiver, but there is no sound playback when I start the bluealsa-aplay service I created. It only works when I run the bluealsa-...
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Logitech C920 webcam mic volume very low in some apps
I've connected a Logitech C920 webcam to my Raspberry Pi 4 with the basic OS image on it. I want to use it for video conferencing through my living room TV, and I intended to use the built in C920 mic ...
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How can I change the audio output device from the command line?
I want to be able to change the audio output device (hdmi or aux) from the command line, preferably, without having to sudo. I'm on a RPI4 with Raspbian-lite Buster.
On the RPI3 I was able to use ...
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How to force audio output to HDMI/3.5mm jack on RPi4 B via CLI?
on RPi 3 we are using something like amixer cset numid=3 1 and then alsactl store to force sound output to jack 3.5mm and store configuration.
I want same thing on my RPi4 model B, but it does not ...
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Why is a Justboom DAC HAT no longer recognised after an upgrade to a Raspi 3B+?
I recently replaced my faulty old Raspi 3B with a 3B+, attached the two HATs I've got (a JustBoom DAC HAT sound card and an S.USV Advanced), plugged the SD card into the new one, upgraded the Raspbian ...
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Live streaming camera and microphone input on a Raspberry Pi 4
I got a a Raspberry Pi camera and a USB microphone connected to the Raspberry Pi 4. All of them are working seperately. But now, I would like to stream them live and combined for accessing it in HTML. ...
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Record USB System Audio and Send to Named Pipe
I am trying to get audio to LedFx, a controller for sound reactive LEDs. One of the ways it can read audio through its docker container is through a named pipe. The command ffmpeg -y -i http://wms-15....
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failed to simultaneously call aplay and arecord with alsa on Pi
for my project, I'd like to call arecord and aplay simultaneously like the following:
aplay -d 20 signal.wav &
arecord -c 2 -d 20 -f S16_LE -r 48000 speaker_response.wav
so that when a test ...
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Duplicating audio in pure ALSA for playback on local device and streaming via trx
I am trying to achieve a multi-room audio setup in my house using Raspberry Pis. How can I get VLC playing simultaneously out the local headphone port while also streaming it to other devices via trx?
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usb mic works in python speech_recognition test but not in practice
System and Devices
Raspberry Pi Zero W running on Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
usb microphone (this one)
Python 3.7.3
What's working:
I can run python3 -m speech_recognition on the raspberry pi, ...
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Hardware controls and low-latency loopback for USB audio (C-Media CM108)
RPi Zero W with 2021-01-11-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.
I have a USB audio card (Logilink UA0053, USB-A plug, same generic plastic case that the blueish "3D Sound" units for USD 0.5 have) that ...
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volume control quirk for Tenx TP6911 Audio Headset
On a fresh install of 2021-01-11-raspios-buster-armhf-lite with dmesg an older, cheap, generic "3D SOUND" USB audio stick for headphone and microphone is detected as
[ 480.467295] usb 1-1: ...
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IQAudio DAC+ appears to be installed, but does not play audio. How to debug?
I recently installed an AudioIQ DAC+ device on my RPi3b+ running buster.
Following the directions in the user guide, I was able to get to the point that the drivers are loaded and appear to run, but ...
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Dupe output to multiple cards
I am following the https://alsa.opensrc.org/Asoundrc Dupe output to multiple cards example on 2 stereo usb sound cards.
I changed things slightly but basically its the same as the above and 1 card ...
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Crackling/popping sound while using ALSA loopback
recently I've been trying to setup a 24/7 youtube livestream on Raspberry Pi 4 using this reddit tutorial (https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/61ntji/...
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How to play through bluetooth speakers with RPi renderer on lan and openhome/linn android phone control point
Using RPi3b and clean installation of RaspberryPi OS Lite and connecting to network using lan.
Media is stored on NAS and served to lan by minimserver.
I have installed upmpdcli and mpd on RPi and ...
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How to change alsa sound output name
Alsa volume controller of spotifyd uses 'Master' for output and does not work on a PI. Checking alsamixer I saw that the output is called headphone. How can I change this value?
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how do I set the recording volume using alsa
Is there a guide somewhere on how to use the pi sound system? It would be good to have something definitive as there is lots of stuff out there that contradicts, and it is not like I want to do ...
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How to set default ALSA input/output in pusleaudio on LibreELEC?
I'm using Raspberry Pi 3 Model B as LibreElec for Kodi. My Pi is connect on TV on HDMI. In kodi, when I select audio outputs HDMI or Jack it play sound well. But when I select Pulseaudio, it don't ...
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ALSA recognizes external sound card but still cannot produce sound
I recently purchased a Pi4 and a HiFiberry DAC+ADC as an external sound card. I followed this link HiFiberry Config to set up the hardware. However, even tho aplay -l listed the hardware, the system ...
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Respeaker 4 install on Pi 3b and buster
I have just bought a respeaker 4 and successfully installed it by the looks of things - I have respeaker under the audio icon input tag.
It is the classic rubbish install process with the script just ...
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No sound with Jitsi Meet and ALSA
For a project I'm using a Raspberry Pi with ALSA. ALSA is configured and speaker-test provides me audio output. However, when I open Jitsi Meet in Chromium, there is no sound. When I open YouTube in ...
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Scratchy audio with certain wav files
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 with an Adafruit I2S Stereo speaker bonnet. I've run their setup script and rebooted many times.
I can play sample mp3 files just fine. They usually sound great. (I've had ...
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I want to allow two instances of mPlayer to play music over a single bluetooth link to a speaker
I have an application which makes two uses of playing two files at the same time. The first is where it plays a white-noise file very quietly and continuously so that the sound-card does not go to ...
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Audio cuts out periodically when using audio hat
I am currently live streaming some audio to and from a raspberry Pi Zero W using the waveshare audio hat however I have found that the audio periodically cuts out when I do this. When I used my logic ...
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sound output stuck on HDMI (working)
I cannot get any output to use the 3.5 mm headset jack it is stuck on HDMI.
There are lots of questions on here that ask about the headset jack connector not working and have answers on howto switch ...
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Shoddy and horrible audio performance and support on Raspbian Lite
My audio on the Raspberry Pi 1 (Yes, I have an original model) on my Raspbian 10 Lite installation works, but only barely. Allow me to explain.
I picked Raspbian 10 because I wanted to set up my own ...
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Play audio on two sound cards at the same time
I currently try to setup my raspberry pi 3 with a HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro XLR (using Raspian based on Debian 10).
I installed the sound card and configured alsa to use device 1 as new default. Restarted ...
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Read Incoming Bluetooth Audio On Pi With Python
this is my first post on here! I am trying to make my raspberry pi 3 a bluetooth speaker which synchronizes beat of the music being played from a phone to an LED light strip. For the LED light ...
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Can I use Raspberry Pi as a USB speaker?
Now I have
A: Desktop PC with Arch Linux
B: Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Buster connected with a speaker
and I'd like to use B as a wired speaker of A. By "wired", I mean that A and B are connected ...
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Route Audio from SPDIF Input to 5.1 USB Soundcard (raspbian)
So I'm very new to audio stuff, but my setup is the following:
Any HDMI device --(via HDMI)--> TV --(via SPDIF)--> USB Sound Card (input) --> RaspberryPi --> USB Sound Card (3x3.5mm Audio Jack (Front,...
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How do I get a USB speaker working on a Pi 4 with Raspbian Buster?
I've found several candidate dupes for this - the one that seems to encompass them all (and more) being this one: How can I use an external USB sound-card and set it as default?
But none of them have ...
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Cannot increase gain on USB Microphone
I got myself one of those cheap USB microphones and it basically works out of the box with arecord, it's just way too quiet. The level on the virtual UV meter never passes 1%.
Here's what I got, ...
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ALSA errors on raspberry pi 4
So i'm trying to make a virtual assistant on a raspberry pi 4. I have coded the bot to work on my windows machine but now I'm running into errors while using the raspberry pi I figured out which part ...
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Real Time audio recording from two audio input and playing simultaneously in 2 audio output
I have one Raspberry Pi with 2 USB speakers and a mic system. I want to record simultaneously from one mic and play in another speaker. Like, MicA recording will be played in SpeakerB and MicB ...
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Change Default Microphone
I am having trouble changing my default mic on raspbian buster lite (kernel 4.19.36 on the 3B+).
I know that the mic is fully functional because when I run: arecord -D plughw:1,0 --duration=3 test.wav ...
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Suppress Midi CC Messages during midi merge on RPI USB Midi Host
I have followed the instructions here to create a RPI to act as a usb midi host: https://neuma.studio/rpi-as-midi-host.html
Its great and works nicely however I would like to suppress Midi CC message ...
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Route native Alsa app audio to bluetooth speaker with Pulseaudio?
I have an app that only supports Alsa, and I want to route its audio to a Bluetooth speaker. I'm attempting to use Pulseaudio to do it if that is possible.
The Bluetooth speaker is paired and I can ...
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Getting gstreamer to produce out of usb-audio
I cannot get gstreamer on raspbian (buster) to play through a
usb-audio device, despite other players (vlc, aplay) being able to do
so. but i need gstreamer because of its API access, for mpd players
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raspotify / librespot won't output audio with my ALSA config
I am trying to get the sound from librespot to my Amiga via A314 (raspberry pi expansion card for Amiga) without any success.
At the moment I can play audio with mpg123 on my Amiga by using a custom ...
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no audio with playbin or autoaudiosink on gstreamer, but plays with alsasink
recently upgraded my raspian, and installation of RPi with Hifiberry AMP.
and my python application that utilizes gstreamer's api is no longer working.
as a test to figure out why I am using the gst-...
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bluealsa: Couldn't acquire D-Bus name: org.bluealsa
Trying to use my Raspberry Pi 4 as an A2DP Bluetooth sink using bluealsa.
As reading the documentation of bluealsa:
It will register org.bluealsa service in the D-Bus system bus, which can be used ...
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What are those ALSA Subdevices and what are they used for?
New to the community.
I was curious about one specific part from the ALSA driver on Raspberry Pi 4 (or even on other Linux machines using ALSA).
So $ aplay -l lists all current audio devices, but ...