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PulseAudio is a free cross-platform network sound server.

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How to stream my GNU/Linux audio output to Android devices over WI-FI?

I want to stream my audio output over the network (Wi-Fi) to my Android devices. I'm not looking for a music/video streaming solution, but I would stream any audio output of my GNU/Linux desktop to my Android work like a bluetooth headphone. My…
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Pulseaudio: how to rescan audio devices?

When adding a USB device to my system (I deliberately run no modern stack for device detection), Pulseaudio can't pickup it without restart (pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio --start). Is there an option for, say, pactl, which will make pulseaudio to…
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Headset microphone not detected by Pulse und Alsa

I have an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro Laptop that only sports a combo jack for both microphone and headphones at the same time. It was always a bit tricky but worked until I reinstalled Arch Linux recently. Since then the microphone part has not been…
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Skype 4.3 without PulseAudio, only ALSA. Any options?

I have been using Skype for over 10 years now, almost since the initial release, and most of my friends/family/colleagues use it too. So switching IM is not an option. Microsoft has recently changed Skype protocol to force users to update to newer…
Art Gertner
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Play 2 audio files/streams simultaneously

I'm facing a strange issue where I can't play 2 separate audio sources at the same time (be it youtube video, VLC, spotify, etc). When I start playing second source the first stops, I have no idea why is this happening. I'm running debian 12 with…
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List all ALSA devices

I'm using PulseAudio on my system, and I followed the instructions for adding a monitor device as per the PulseAudio wiki. The monitor device itself works and registers/functions properly in apps like Audacity, but I'm not able to get the device to…
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Mono + Mic instead of stereo sound for Bluetooth headphones on Ubuntu

I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu. My headphones either support stereo sound or mono sound with the microphone. So, I cant have a stereo and a microphone on at the same time. In windows, I could choose mono+mic as default. But in Ubuntu…
Mandar Sadye
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Pulseaudio Daemon Startup Failed

When running startx on Arch Linux, the error: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. is returned. Is there any way to fix this error?
Kevin Gurney
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Is it possible to route different applications to different audio outputs with Pulse Audio?

Is it possible to route different applications to different audio outputs with Pulse Audio? I'd like my music to be played on my Stereo, but I'd like sound alerts to be played on my notebook speakers. Is that possible with Pulseaudio?
Peltier
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Streaming audio from Windows to Linux using PulseAudio

I have Linux box with Ubuntu + PulseAudio network server installed. I can stream audio from my laptop (with Linux installed too) to the box over local network. I've recently installed Windows 7 into my laptop. I want to stream my laptop audio to the…
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Centralized PulseAudio setup

I want to do a setup, so that all my computers and TV use one audio system. Like this: Where media server is connected to acoustics and TV is connected through sound-card input and other systems use PulseAudio to access acoustics through network.…
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Prevent applications to control master volume on Linux

Whenever I change the volume in VLC, Rhythmbox, or a video on YouTube, it change the master volume, i.e. the system volume. How can I prevent this from happening? I'm running Debian 7.0.0 (wheezy) with xfce4, it seems to use PulseAudio, which I'm…
Alex
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Set device for program in PulseAudio?

In computer I have 2 sound devices. When I run some program (let's say Skype) I can (using "pavucontrol" -> "PulseAudio Volume Control") setup so that this application will use given device for playback or recording. But - in the Playback/Recording…
user7385
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systemd keeps respawning pulseaudio, and doesn't allow me to stop it

So I was trying to stop pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k, but it kept restarting "on its own", even though I have the configuration autospawn = no in place. I'm pretty sure it's systemd that keeps restarting it, as instructed by…
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Sound stopped working after upgrading to Linux 5.4 (Intel HD Audio)

After upgrading from Linux 5.3 to Linux v5.4.2 on Arch Linux, all of my audio stopped working. The only thing I see in Gnome 3’s Sound settings is “Dummy Output” and aplay --list-pcm says: “No card(s) found.” and running alsactl init says: “alsactl:…
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