Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] No audio output; same setup worked before

2021-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote:


I tried a test file with audacity. It recorded but no sound when playing
back (screenshot attached.)


Sean,

Aha! I found the problem, at least with audacity. Audacity has a drop down
combobox with output options. The default is, "HD-Audio Generic: ALC1220
digital (HW:1,1)" and there's no speaker output.

And, when I change the output to "HD-Audio Generic: ALC1220 digital
(HW:1,0)" the same test recoding is heard from the speakers.

When I look at pavucontrol's Configure tab I don't see options with ALC1220
or HW:1,x. It seems that it's pavucontrol's output option that needs
changing. How do I determine which will work?

Regards,

Rich


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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] No audio output; same setup worked before

2021-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Sean Greenslade wrote:


OK, all of this suggests that the file did not record correctly. And
after some experimentation myself, it seems like this is a known bug:


Sean,

I tried a test file with audacity. It recorded but no sound when playing
back (screenshot attached.)

I'm really puzzled.

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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] No audio output; same setup worked before

2021-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Sean Greenslade wrote:


OK, all of this suggests that the file did not record correctly. And
after some experimentation myself, it seems like this is a known bug:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/822


Sean,

What's the difference between parec and pacat? The former looks like the
eqivalent to parecord or paca -r.

Oh. When I started having issues I upgraded pavucontrol from -3.0 to -4.0.
The last time the AT2500 worked as expected was with 3.0 installed.


It seems like the wav format does work, so give this variant a try:
$ pacat -v -r --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav
and
$ pacat -v -p --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav


So I tried these with 4.0 and still no sound.

$ pacat -v -r --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav
Opening a recording stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and 
channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connection established.
Stream successfully created.
Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, fragsize=352800
Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connected to device alsa_output.pci-_0a_00.3.analog-stereo.monitor (index: 
0, suspended: no).

and

$ pacat -v -p --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav
Opening a playback stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and 
channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connection established.
Stream successfully created.
Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, tlength=352800, prebuf=349276, minreq=3528
Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'.
Connected to device alsa_output.pci-_0a_00.3.analog-stereo (index: 0, 
suspended: no).
Stream started.

Then I restored version 3.0 and saw the same results.

I have some music files in .wav format. I just played one (pavucontrol
version 3.0) using 'pacat -v -p --file-format=wav s-and-g.wav'.
pavucontrol's Playback tab's VU meter moved as the song came out of the
speakers.

Darn! What else can I do to find why what's recorded by the mic won't play?


My Scarlett solo is an older gen, so it doesn't have an "air" switch. I
was curious what that was, so here's what their docs have to say:
Lol, it's just a fixed EQ curve. This should not be the cause of your
issues, though feel free to use it if you like the tone it produces.


Yes, I have the Gen3 since I bought it mid-last year. I looked up 'air' in
the manual and saw it would really not apply to speech but would to music.

Regards,

Rich
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