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How do you change the alert sound?
elementary OS uses XDG sound themes. Although there isn't currently a way to change or edit them from within Switchboard, it's quite easy to do manually.
Rather than edit the default freedesktop ...
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Fix bad quality audio in Bluetooth headphones
Funnily enough, I found the answer while writing this post, so I might as well write my first-ever Q&A post on StackExchange.
You have to go to Sound Settings and under the options for your ...
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Bluetooth connceted speakers - volume not adjusting
I found an older post regarding this situation for Ubuntu 15.04 and a bug report that was filed for it. That can be found here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1404729
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How can I disable sound effect of deleting files in Elementary OS 5?
You can use the Event Sounds option in the Sound settings to disable this sound.
In previous versions of Elementary OS this option didn't work. The old workaround is below.
I think the "Event Sounds"...
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Can't control Firefox media through the sound indicator or keyboard shortcuts
Firefox doesn't seem to be a MPRIS "provider"
Spec:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mpris-spec/
Relevant Firefox bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353652
Seems people ...
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Asus X555UB , Realtek ALC256 no sound
I have found solution by myself. in case of someone has the same problem - windows dualboot uses a fastboot, so after boot into windows do not restart your computer , just shutdown it. after a boot ...
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Can I boost the volume above 100% without going into System Settings?
r3bl's answer does not work on the latest version of Elementary OS
Essentially what you need to do now is:
Install dconf-editor
Run dconf-editor as YOUR user, NOT sudo / root
Navigate to /io/...
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Poor Sound Quality on Loki
First ensure you have Allow louder than 100% unchecked in the sound settings, as peaking audio is generally the cause of terrible audio quality, and can damage speakers sometimes.
Second, you can try ...
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How to fix crackling sound in PulseAudio
(the following answer was provided by OP himself, but was originally included in the question body.)
Searching for a solution I found one within the Arch wiki and I wanted to share it with everyone....
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Volume controls on function keys don't work
Install dconf-editor:
sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
Go to org > gnome > settings-daemon > plugins > media-keys
Find the keys that don't work and set them to their default value ...
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Turning up the volume past the maximum in Juno
The command for that is gsettings set io.elementary.desktop.wingpanel.sound max-volume 150. You may need to log out for this to take effect.
Also take into account that this is going to cause ...
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Can you disable that annoying "blop blop" sound in volume?
'...the annoying blop blop sound...' what a wonderful description!
The following commands did it for me:
Tell the system to stop emitting the blop:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds ...
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How to find out what codec is used in a video
This is not a complete GUI information, but the next solution to it, I think. On Github there are contracts among other for video and audio information: Create a file in /usr/share/contractor
Open ...
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How to add login sound in elementary OS
Open System Settings and select Start Up Applications. Click Add.
In Name call it "Login Sound"
In Command write /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --file=YOURFILE
In Comment "Play sound on user login"
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Chrome does not sound in Freya
Is there any sound that your computar can play?
note, there is a sound setting where the application that play sound can be activated or desactivated.
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sound device is not shown after purging pulseaudio
I found the solution for it.
First I removed any traces of pulseaudio and pulseaudio-equalizer by using the below command
sudo apt purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-equalizer
then
removed following ...
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Why is my sound so low?
I managed to find a solution for this. Just power off the computer completely and restart it. Sound back to normal!
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Why is my sound so low?
Maybe this could help:
Hi there.
I've got the same Problem with my Asus Z97 Deluxe and the ALC1150
Audio Controller. In search for a solution i found this thread and
added to my
/etc/...
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Lots of microphone interferance on Freya
If you're still searching for a solution,
I had the same problem of noise from my cheap microphone with Loki. I found the module "module-echo-cancel" which should do the job.
To test it, enter "...
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Sound issue after system update
Today I've downgraded the linux kernel to get rid of this issue:
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-4.4.0-51-generic
Now my kernel version is 4.4.0-38-generic and there is no any sound issue.
Not: At ...
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Is there a way to increase Videos (Audience) sound volume more than 100%?
It's not possible to do it.
Anyway, when you set your VLC volume over 100% that will also create distortion, so you will get the same effect if you set the general volume a little over 100%.
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Problems installing DSP correction
I recently tried to follow that guide you linked and failed as well.
The problem, as it was for me, is probably a misplaced or misconfigured config file.
You should check that you have the file named ...
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How can I lower the volume specific to a particular app?
You can install pavucontrol :
$ sudo apt install pavucontrol
In the Playback tab you can choose the volume output for each audio stream.
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No sound in TV over HDMI in Juno
We can use command
pactl
pactl - Control a running PulseAudio sound server on terminal
first, list our available properties in our machine using this command:
pactl list cards
based on my ...
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How to change default sound input?
You might want to check out pavucontrol.
sudo apt install pavucontrol
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Bluetooth headphones not showing up as sound output on Dell XPS 15
Thanks Jeremy31, I tried the a2dp.py script but I was getting the following error:
`Cannot find
bluez_card.04_52_C7_1B_7B_BC` using `pactl list cards short`. Retrying 8 more times
After trying a ...
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Internal soundcard doesn't automatically switch to headphones when I plug them in
I was able to have elementary OS auto switch to my bluetooth headphones by loading a extra module:
Add the following line to: /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-switch-on-connect
Sources:
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Sound and Camera on HP Pavillion X2
Searching a little i found that this is a common bug and devs are working to fix : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1561278
I think you should try to update alsa to latest ...
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