Audio bug and mono audio

[indigo chasm]

after switching to linux mint I have had occasional audio glitches when my device has been left on for an extended period of time (usually like 8+hours)

there are 2 variations of it

1. all audio is gone and replaced with something only describable as the wii crash noise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6bvzqitf6o)

2. audio stays but loops a 1 second audio segment for like 5 seconds (example: talking in vc and then a sentence of "ill get so much money" turns into "ill get so ill get so ill get so ill get so ill get so") followed by maybe a quick second of everything i missed sped up if im lucky, otherwise it skips entirely

the only fix i have found so far is powering off the pc and waiting a bit before powering back on and on occasion that still doesn't fully work and I have to do it a second time.

[inland fog]

rather oddball issue.

please show terminal result of inxi -SMAxxx

[inland fog]

are you using HDMI-out (or DP-out) for sound via the GPU? or the analog line-out jacks?

[indigo chasm]

headphone jack

[inland fog]

you can try this fix: #💬general message

[indigo chasm]

command not found

[inland fog]

is says to add a line to that file

u need to open a text editor with root authority

sudo xed /etc/modprob.d/alsa-base.conf

[indigo chasm]

so just past that in here save and close?

[inland fog]

yeah but i would have imagined this file already contained much more. so hang on

ah i see why

i made spelling error

close that editor

sudo xed /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

[indigo chasm]

deleted closed and not saved

[inland fog]

forgot the e in modprobe

[indigo chasm]

ah hyere we go now theres stuff in it

[inland fog]

good. just put newline at bottom with the options thing as shown

[indigo chasm]

aight so now am i good to save and close

and hopefully have linux not sound like a dying wii

[inland fog]

yes. save and then reboot

[indigo chasm]

i will update within the next few days to see if this works

while on the topic of audio
could i also get some assistance getting mono audio to work

since its not a base feature

@inland fog

[inland fog]

easyeffects app should have it.

[indigo chasm]

alright i got it installed
any idea where in there it might be cause im looking around and dont see it

[inland fog]

lol idk. check its help file or google

[indigo chasm]

fair

ok i figured it out
you gotta use the flatpk version
go to effects
add stereo tools
then under stereo matrix in the center of the screen set mode to mono sum
hopefully this helps someone

Audio bug and mono audio

[indigo chasm]

it didnt fix it
@inland fog

though it is doing something slightly different now