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How can I use an external USB sound-card and set it as default?

I've got an external USB sound-card from C-Media running on my RPi3. I can play some recordings using aplay/arecord by specifying the card index and ALSA plugin. However, many other sound files does ...
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Command aplay does not work without sudo

The command aplay only works if preceded by sudo. omxplayer test.wav will play the audio I recorded with arecord just fine. aplay text.wav does not, but sudo aplay test.wav does. The suggestions from ...
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How to connect speakers to rpi?

How to connect this speaker to Raspberry Pi 3 model b+ I have a PAM8302A amplifier.
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aplay can see sound device but amixer can't

I'm using the speaker bonnet / following instructions from adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-speaker-bonnet-for-raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-usage. I followed all of the steps (skipping the ...
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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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How to record usb audio and monitor at the same time

I have a usb audio device plugged into my Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Stretch. Recording to an mp3 with sox works fine with this line: AUDIODEV=dsnooped rec -c 1 -q /media/usbstick/recording/...
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Pi-topCEED / Bluetooth áudio question

I’ve a Raspberry Pi 3B+ along with a Pi-topCeed and pi-top SPEAKER ver 2. Using Raspbian Stretch not pi-top OS. It works ok but for better quality I want to try using a Bluetooth speaker to play ...
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Playing audio via bluetooth speaker for Pi3 (Stretch)

This is the oft repeated question on playing audio via bluetooth on RPi. There are too many posts out there, but most of them are dated or do not apply to the stretch version of raspbian and hence ...
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Whistling sound from speakers on connecting USB mouse

I'm using GPIO12 & GPIO13 for PWM audio output to a set of powered speakers on a Raspberry Pi 3. However the speakers have a continuous high pitched beep to them which seems to be tied to the ...
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how to play audio from python on Raspbian Stretch Lite?

I would like to play selected audio files through the built-in audio port on a Raspberry 3 that is running Raspbian Stretch Lite, from a python program. Unfortunately, none of the libraries or ...
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pyaudio - Alsa warnings on Raspberry pi

I am trying to send data through 3.5mm jack. In that process, Everytime i'm getting these warnings import pyaudio p = pyaudio.PyAudio() The following warnings are: Expression '...
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Audio stopped work on Rasbian Lite after reboot

So I know there's a lot of similar posts here, but I've read everything on the first 2 pages of Google and no luck yet. There's only one command that does actually produce audio for me: /opt/vc/src/...
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OMXplayer play video with no sound and mp3 at 2/4 times the speed

Using a USB sound card, I'm trying to play mp3 files, with the default omxplayer. But although all other software works fine, omxplayer play my mp3 files at 2x speed, sometimes even 4 times. Is ...
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How do I get my I2S microphone on a Pi zero W working again after running rpi-update?

I have an I2S breakout microphone from adafruit which I got working last week. However due to problems with my pi camera I ran rpi-update, and following this my microphone is not working. I ...
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Adafruit PAM8302A -> Raspberry Pi 3

I want to connect Adafruit PAM8302A amplifier to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. What I need? How to do this?
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Changing bluetooth class to act as a hands free device and car audio

Good morning folks, I have been using this tool to quickly configure my Pi2 as a bluetooth audio link to my camper van, it works brilliantly. My question is regarding changing the class of the ...
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