Questions tagged [alsa]
For questions pertaining to ALSA, the Linux sound subsystem. ALSA sits below advanced systems like PulseAudio.
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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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USB Voice recognition with python pyttsx3 and pyaudio
i found a lot of this error in the net, but no solution... is there really no solution ?
i got a Raspberry Pi 4
Mini USB Microphone
pi@raspberrypi:~/voice $ arecord -l
**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte ...
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Bluetooth speaker connected but no audio, AV earphone no audio (only VLC is good), HDMI working propedly
My Bluetooth speaker device (JBL Charge 4) connected, but no audio.
The /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf edited.
I change the "default" context policy from "deny" to "allow&...
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Using USB webcam with integrated audio at the same time
I am trying to use a usb webcam for video and microphone at the same time on my raspberry pi4, on buster. I just set the system up from scratch and am ready to do that again, if it helps with trouble ...
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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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Connect and use Bluetooth headset
I am on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with Raspbian buster and have issues using my Bluetooth headset. I tried to use some of the several available HowTos. Best working for me are the HowTos using bluealsa....
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Multi-channel Audio Recording with asoundrc - sudo sound card not appearing
I'm trying to find a way to record audio from 4 separate sound cards at once, using a raspberry pi running with rapbian. From what I've read it should be really straight forward so I'm not sure what I'...
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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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Can't user alsaequalizer in KODI
I have OSMC (KODI) on RPI 3. I managed to use alsa equalizer with command:
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
My asound.conf file:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm plugequal;
}
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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 ...
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Sound control does not work when card 1 is selected
I have USB speakers connected to my Raspberry Pi 1 model B.
Output of aplay -l:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
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How to increase mic input volume?
I recently bought a usb soundcard and a 3.5mm microphone for my raspberry pi 4 to use for a python project for speech recognition where I want the pi to be able to hear to conversational volume voices ...
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record internal audio
I would like to record the audio generated by a program on the pi and pass the audio stream to another program.
There is software I don't control doing the equivalent of sudo aplay FILE
The sound is ...
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RPi alsaaudio.PCM works good for Python2.7.16 but not for Python3.7.3
I am new to audio related programming in RPi. Following code works well and playing sound from a wav file in Python2.
import alsaaudio as aa
output = aa.PCM(type=aa.PCM_PLAYBACK, mode=aa.PCM_NORMAL, ...
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Installation of kernel module for I2S Mic fails
I have a I2S mems microphone from adafruit. Now I am following the guide at https://github.com/nejohnson2/rpi-i2s#compile-the-i2s-module
Now after I have mounted the debugfs I attempt to look for the ...
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What does amixer cset numid=3 3 do?
In order to solve missing audio via HDMI with Raspberry Pi 4B (Raspian Buster) I came across
amixer cset numid=3 2
which didn't do the trick for me. But randomly I checked numbers from 0 to 4 and ...
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VLC player can't play larger media files on raspbian
I am using Pi 4 for an week. I tried some media players available on repository like vlc,kodi,mpv etc.
I have noticed none of them can play a media file(mp4,avi,mkv) smoothly. So I am stuck with vlc. ...
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USB mic input + 3.5mm jack output
I'm trying to set up my Rpi using a USB mic and output through the 3.5mm jack.
If I select the USB mic in alsamixer, I don't have any sound at all. If I use the 3.5mm I get sound but cannot record ...
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Pi 3 B+ no audio device found
I have been trying to use Alexa on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (running Stretch). I ran Alexa successfully, with a USB microphone and a speaker connected through the 3.5mm jack, about a week ago and went on ...
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Microphone is not recording with HifiBerry and Raspberry Pi 3
I installed the HifiBerry driver as specified. The Board is recognized and the audio output works fine.
Just the audio input seems to be not working. I checked if the microphone is muted but I can't ...
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Pi menu bar flashes then disappears - due to ALSA config
I have built a new image on a RPi3B+ with Noobs using the latest Raspbian which I believe is named Buster. I uninstalled libreoffice (for space) and have installed various python libraries and the ...
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ALSA Errors on Pi 3B+ using SpeechRecognition and PyAudio (Original Post missing stuff)
Using PyAudio I simply ran this piece of code:
import pyaudio
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
for x in range(p.get_device_count()):
print(p.get_device_info_by_index(x).get('name'))
Getting these Errors:
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Text to speech errors
I try to make a python script for Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Raspbian to speak text I input. I use pyttsx3 library but I also tried espeak from command line.
Every time, the sound is very laggy, it start ...
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How do I capture and stream HDMI audio out to LAN
I have a RPi that is running videos with omxplayer and outputting to my tv. HDMI video and audio out work just fine, but I would additionally like to stream only the audio to my network (via RTP or ...
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Mopidy with PulseAudio sound over TCP
So I have been struggling with this for a while now and looked everywhere for solutions.
I have installed Mopidy with Spotify extension on my Raspberry Pi 3B but I can't seem to get the pulseaudio ...
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Aux and HDMI audio options missing
Background (To give some perspective on the issue):
I am using mopidy and mopify as an audio server on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. WHen setting this up, I found that it would not output through a USB audio ...
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ALSA input error (snd_pcm_open): No such file or directory - Problem with running Pd with ALSA
I am pretty new to Raspberry Pi, so sorry if I might be not clear on something.
I am trying to set the Raspberry Pi 3 to work running a Pure Data patch while communicating with two Arduino UNO, and ...
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USB audio device is displayed as default, but is not
I have set the USB device on my Raspberry Pi to default. The file /lib/modprobe.d/aliases.conf:
options snd-pcsp index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=0
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-...
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Connect Raspberry Pi via Bluetooth to Sound Bar
after spending the last couple of weeks trying to connect my bluetooth soundbar to my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and playing all audio output on it I am close to giving up.
Using the GUI I can successfully ...
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Setting up config for alsa at /etc/asound.conf
I have the following set-up with 3 USB audio devices - one for the output, the other is an input from my record player which I put on module-loopback, and the final one is a PS3 eye that I am trying ...
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How can I find the answer to “What does Raspbian use to handle audio?”
I think some releases of Raspbian handle audio differently than the previous version. If the use of ALSA or Pulse Audio (or some other software) has changed with Raspbian releases, what do I need to ...
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soundcards suddenly disappear (adafruit speaker bonnet + neo pixels)
This afternoon I was playing sound through my adafruit speaker bonnet just fine.
That means I installed the speakers and neopixels according to the guides and had multiple reboots for circuit python,...
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How can I direct the output both of mpg123, and of eSpeak to the same ALSA sound device?
I'm currently struggling with the following scenario: I'd like to make my Raspi (3B) play a short MP3 jingle and then, after a 250 µsec pause, speak a short text by using an add-on sound card (...
