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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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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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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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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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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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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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alexa speaker only shows up as a microphone and not a bluetooth speaker
First, update your system. This steps probably won't work if you are not using Loki (elementary OS 0.4).
Bluetooth is buggy sometimes. Delete alexa from the Bluetooth settings inside System ...
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How to disable sound effect of deleting files in Elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki?
System Settings > Sound Settings > Sound Effects > Mute;
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Change volume control increments/ticks?
I had a similar issue where increasing the volume on my USB headset by one step (tick) would drastically increase the volume. Even worse, lowering the volume below a certain threshold (roughly 20-25%) ...
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Bluetooth - poor sound quality for regular user (JBL Speaker)
I might be a bit late, but today I had the same issue. The solution was to click on sound settings, pick JBL and switch the mode to High Fidelity Playback.
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Audio is extremely sensitive
Nevermind I fixed it, I fiddled with PulseAudio Volume Control's settings, accidentally set my headphones as input, and when I set it back to Analog Stereo Output it worked. Nice!
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Sound stopped working after update
Had same problem for last two days after update. Installed pavucontrol and selected the external soundcard through it instead of through settings. Worked.
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Loki Laptop, no sound through Radeon HDMI
So for anyone else who may be experiencing this issue: The lack of HDMI audio is documented on Ubuntu's AMDGPU and AMDGPU-Pro wiki pages. As of Ubuntu 16.04, only the open source AMDGPU/amdgpu-Pro ...
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Why are on-wake sound issues solved by opening System Settings?
It seems this is a problem introduced by Pulseaudio 8.
Pulseaudio 9 claims to fix the problem (See "Automatic routing improvements", Pulseaudio 9 Release notes).
Upgrading to Pulseaudio 9 doesn't ...
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Is it possible to disable notifications sound on do not disturb mode?
In System Settings>Notifications you can set if notifications play sound. :)
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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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