#audio sounds poor

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cedar charm
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i just switched from win 10 to mint and audio sounds considerably worse in mint than in win 10. any help?

simple rain
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are you talking about laptop speakers, or Line-Out to an amplifier/ amplified speakers

tulip rose
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Try switching to pipewire

cedar charm
simple rain
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follow this from where I linked, to see how to switch to Pipewire audio handler, which will then lead to installing jdsp, a multifunction sound enhancer and equalizer for the system.

cedar charm
simple rain
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yep. just unmark media-session if it got automatically included

cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
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wait, was it that way already?

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cuz i see a bunch is already installed (green)

cedar charm
simple rain
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hmm. so see which sound server is currently in use. check with inxi -A in terminal

cedar charm
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ok

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alse, pipewire and pulseaudio is all running

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alsa*

simple rain
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can u paste the output result here?

cedar charm
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k

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"Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl
Device-2: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-35-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
"

simple rain
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alright. that is probably Mint's default setup

cedar charm
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yeah

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so, what i do?

simple rain
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what I should have mentioned, I just remembered, is before messing with the audio subsystem at all, MAKE A TIMESHIFT BACKUP of the system's current working state

cedar charm
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ok 👍

simple rain
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have u seen the Timeshift program yet?

cedar charm
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yeah

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ik how to use it

simple rain
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kk

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do that first. in case (always be safe) anything gets muddled with these kind of system-sensitive operations

cedar charm
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k i did it

simple rain
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ok good.

cedar charm
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i also have one from when i first installed the os and didnt change anything (except the nvidia driver, its installed in that), just in case

simple rain
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so in synaptic, choose all the pipewire stuff that currently isn't green, and mark for installation.

cedar charm
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👍

simple rain
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except for media session

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im just going by what Luthe recommends since he done it many times

cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
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it will tell you at the bottom status bar how many packages have been marked for install, and what space it should take up

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then hit Apply

cedar charm
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ok but

simple rain
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read and check the final summary, for "to be installed"

cedar charm
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how do i choose specifically, one by one

simple rain
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click on the box, and a context menu will appear

cedar charm
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ok

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wait, no i mean like, choosing ALL, one by one

simple rain
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not sure what u means. if one package needs helper things, it will automark it

cedar charm
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ok

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should it look like this?

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simple rain
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ensure wireplumber is there too

cedar charm
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it is there

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at the bottom

simple rain
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u may unmark the top two, gnome and gir

cedar charm
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ok but, why?

simple rain
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did the package manager auto-include them as dependencies for the other things?

cedar charm
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let me check

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yes, only "gir" though, specifically for "libwireplumber-0.4-dev"

simple rain
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unmark the packages ending in "dev" or saying development files

cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
cedar charm
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ok

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should i mark "gnome" again?

simple rain
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nah

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ur on Cinnamon desktop

cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
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plus ur not remoting into this computer or whatever

cedar charm
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ok

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ok i clieck apply but uhh

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should i tick the this box

simple rain
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wait

cedar charm
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it says "install package files only"

simple rain
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um

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are u sure it doesnt say download package files only?

cedar charm
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hold on

simple rain
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the default is unticked, that's how it should stay

cedar charm
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so, what should i do? tick it or not?

simple rain
cedar charm
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im clicking "apply"

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should i do it?

simple rain
cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
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just copy and paste the commands so you don't make typos.. (ctrl-shift-v to paste)

cedar charm
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ok

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sorry, i mean, just this?

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@simple rain

simple rain
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yep.. after that follow the guide more as he says it

cedar charm
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ok

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can you also help me on #1244743335986335885

simple rain
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later on

cedar charm
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👍

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@simple rain thanks a lot

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its working

simple rain
cedar charm
simple rain
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did u install jamesdsp and it's working?

cedar charm
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its installing

simple rain
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yeah good. it's a flatpak so probably kind of big download

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after it installs u can tweak the bass/ eqalizer, stereo-width.. play around a while.

cedar charm
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ok

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but do i have to

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@simple rain

simple rain
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have to what?

cedar charm
simple rain
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yeah you will want to so that the laptop speakers sound richer and how you like.. that's the whole point.

cedar charm
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ok

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thanks a lot 👍

simple rain
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let me know how it goes. and test with reboot etc

cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
cedar charm
simple rain
cedar charm
simple rain
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oh

cedar charm
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how about i just uninstall jamesdsp

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would my audio still sound like in win 10?

simple rain
cedar charm
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are there any other dsps i can use?

simple rain
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that's the point of doing this whole thing was to improve the sound

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idk if there's others.

cedar charm
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ok

cedar charm
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@simple rain is easyeffects an alternative to jdsp?

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if so, how do i uninstall jdsp?

simple rain
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pulse effects and easyeffects may or may not be enough, idk

cedar charm
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ill see

cedar charm
simple rain
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should be a one click uninstall, after u search it in Software Manager program

cedar charm
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ok

simple rain
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if not, then flatpak remove jdsp i think

cedar charm
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thanks

simple rain
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Luthe:

to install the EQ, run
flatpak install me.timschneeberger.jdsp4linux
then open it and begin tweaking your audio

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replace the word install with remove

cedar charm
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thanks

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i removed it using software manager, would that work too?

simple rain
cedar charm
simple rain
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at all? or just not much difference?

cedar charm
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at all

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it kept setting itself as the default sound output device, and that made it so audio wouldnt play

simple rain
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🤷‍♂️

cedar charm
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ok

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@simple rain in the meanwhile you are here, can you help me on #1244743335986335885 or still nah?

tropic abyss
tropic abyss
tropic abyss
cedar charm
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@tropic abyss

tropic abyss
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You can't use both at same time tho

cedar charm
dusky rapids
# simple rain <@949313000945356840> u may follow this too from this ^ point on

Followed the instructions, I imagine they were very helpful in the long run, but I have had a segmentation fault when executing pipewire from the terminal for a while now and it didn't seem to change anything. I can imagine it's a simple fix, though.[W][01370.181146] pw.context | [ context.c: 403 pw_context_new()] vm.overrides in context.properties are deprecated, use context.properties.rules instead [W][01370.184253] mod.rt | [ module-rt.c: 274 pw_rtkit_check_xdg_portal()] Can't find org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop. Is xdg-desktop-portal running? [W][01370.184272] mod.rt | [ module-rt.c: 1035 pipewire__module_init()] found session bus but no portal

tropic abyss
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you install it and works ootb