No Audio Drives Please Help ASAP!

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Aspire E11 laptop. Everything works except sound. Nothing is muted. Alsamixer is in strange condition with no bars. Normally I find fixes by googling a question then finding then pasting commands into the terminal but all to no avail. I still have no sound. Any feedback would be appreciated.


Pulse audio controls show everything as normal with nothing muted.


This is the output forlspci -nnk | grep -i audio

$ lspci -nnk | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation ValleyView High Definition Audio Controller [8086:0f04] (rev 0e)
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In August of this year I'm going to build a dedicated linux audio computer. I have been using ubuntu studio on my cheapo dell optiplex to learn linux and to get used to different programs and see which ones I need.

Lubuntu seems to use less cpu than ubuntu studio for the same program. I don't want any other programs on my system part from ardour, jack and a few misc MP3 players. All audio. It says that ubuntu studio is a low latency program, does this mean that Lubuntu isn't low latency? It seems that Lubuntu is running the program easier but I'm nervous to go with it because I fear it may be missing certain components to keep it less needy of cpu power.
What are your thoughts on this.

Hi

I am trying to fade in audio at 39 seconds into the video with existing audio.

It did work, the mp3 file fades in at 39 seconds, however the original audio from the video is silence or removed.

Here is the code I've use.

Code:

ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -i test.mp4 -c:v copy -strict experimental -shortest -af 'afade=t=in:st=39' test.mp4

How can I fix this? Thanks

I tried doing a search on this topic, but the only hit I got was my "Howdy" intro post from yesterday. So I thought I'd go ahead and toss out this question to the forum to see if there is a particular distribution I should be looking at.

Currently I have two PCs on my home network that share a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. One of them is my digital audio workstation (aka DAW), a computer that I use for music composition, production, and recording, and the other is the one I'm typing on at the moment, which until very recently has been just sitting around doing nothing -- through no fault of its own. It had a bad power supply which I just recently replaced. But now that I have it up and running again, I would like to use it for some experimentation. It has two drives installed, one of which is currently running Windows 7. The other has an older distribution of Ubuntu on it -- about three years old or so. Because it's such an old distribution, I'm thinking about replacing it with whatever will give me the best performance in terms of working with audio and MIDI.

I'm not very conversant at all with Linux. About all I did with this old Ubuntu distro was play around with it some. And then, when I installed Win7, it killed the Ubuntu boot sector, so it's been quite a while since I've even logged into the Linux side of things.

I don't suppose I even need to mention that I'll also be installing a boot manager so that I can go back and forth between the OSes. I've been playing around some with Grub2Win, but for some reason it doesn't find my Linux installation. I need to check into that a bit further.

SO getting back to the music production topic, is there even a significant difference in the way the various distributions would handle audio and MIDI?

I've done some googling on the subject of the best linux distributions and, what I've found is that "best" tends to vary a lot over a fairly narrow time period. Bodhi, Mint, Megeia, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubunto (for laptops), OpenSUSE, etc., all of these and more make the "best of" list at one time or another over a relatively short period of time -- say three years or so in terms of a timeframe. I've got to admit that, just from a name perspective, I already have a bit of an attraction the Bodhi. Not only is its interface supposed to be beautiful, but apparently the Bodhi community are more visual-art-centric (in addition to being a musician and a whole lot of other things, I'm also a visual artist), plus my old Earthlink email address was bodhi at earthlint dot net. I closed my earthlink account some ten years ago or so, so it's naught but a fading memory. Someone else likely has it now. Anyway, I am for sure gonna give Bodhi a look-see. Right now, I'm reading through a "top seven for 2014" list put together by Carla Schroder over at linux.com.

I'm hoping I can reduce the size of this list some, not just to save time but also to save disks if I have to burn copies to disk to try them out.

So, if you happen to use Linux for making music, do you have a favorite? If so, I'd like to learn about it and why you like it.

Hi there folks, first post and been using Linux for roughly a week, not an expert but getting the feel for it.

So....my question is: I am in the process of building a studio-rig for music, and previoulsy I used Windows, and managed to get the x64 drivers for my audio card the Delta 1010LT and got it working etc. It came with the control panel as well.

I tried googling for the drivers for Ubuntu Studio (64), but to be honest, like I said being a newbie, I'm not entirely sure I have to download them? Most things I can just request download and install from the terminal in Ubuntu. Does this apply for these drivers or if not does anyone know the location of these drivers?

Much help is appreciated

I have just switched over from DVI to HDMI on a new monitor. I would like to feed the audio out over HDMI. Currently I get no audio over HDMI. Is there a setting to enable this? I am running Debian Wheezy with XFCE.

Hi All,
I'm new to Linux and desperately need some help. I have a Samsung NP355E7C with Windows 8 OS. I have to use Hiltux for work but each time you boot into Hiltux there's no audio playback.I pugged in earphones still nothing. Please advise me on what to do.Newbie Style please.

will encrypting my audio data and burning it on a cd/dvd be worth it since the other person can copy it onto there pc? such as audio files for court? I know it can be copied as long as the pc reads it. but can I protect or encrypt its data as not to be altered when copied? if it is possible please do tell thanks in advance.

Hi

I have some video files where audio dialogue is low but action scenes are loud. I was searching the web on how I can fix this and I found this link http://lifehacker.com/5920290/how-to...en-really-loud

It is an excellent tutorial from lifehacker.

I was wondering if ffmpeg, mplayer/mencoder, handbrake or other commandline program can do the same of increasing the low audio dialogue while keeping the loud action scenes the same audio level? Thanks

Hello everyone.
The sound isn't working on my debian live usb.
I've installed pavucontrol hoping that this would turn on the sound somehow. But it hasn't.

The program is showing RS880 HDMI audio [Radeon HD 4200] as my output device.
The play back bar moves when I play video on youtube but there is no sound.
On the configuration tab, I've tried all the options under 'built-in audio' - but none of these seem to work.


aplay -l

Code:

 
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Don't know why there are 3 playback devices...

lspci | grep -i audio

Code:

00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
01:05.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series]

Not sure why there appears to be two sound cards...

On a Ubuntu site about a similar problem with the same sound card, they suggest creating /etc/asound.conf and adding code to it http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1647400
However, at this point, I'm a bit lost.
Can someone help please?