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A computer device for inputting and outputting audio.

A sound card is a device that allows a computer to process and output audio signals. They come in several forms: integrated onto the motherboard, as expansion cards or as a USB device.

an example sound card (Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value CT4670)

An example PCI sound card (image credit Wikipedia)

The primary use for a sound card is to play back audio controlled by the computer.

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How to make Alsa pick a preferred sound device automatically?

I bought an USB sound card. I'd like to set up my Linux desktop so that it prefers the USB device, if it is plugged in and automatically switches as the device is (un)plugged. Is it possible, and how?
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Headphone volume is way too loud in windows 10 even with an external usb sound card

I have a pair of Bose QC2 headphones and the volume is WAY too loud in windows on all jacks: I have tried the following jacks: speaker out on back of motherboard headphone out external USB sound card (Sabrent Aluminum USB External Stereo Sound…
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Is there a difference between speaker and headphone jacks/ports?

I have a 2.1 speaker setup going into my computer, but primarily plug them into the headphone jack as it is easier to access. I do this because I switch between a couple different devices with these speakers. At one point I plugged them into the…
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How to make Raspberry Pi use an external USB sound card as a default

Does anyone know how to change the sound card boot priority? All tutorials are telling me to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, but the file is missing in Raspbian Jesse.
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What is Stereo Mix supposed to be used for in Windows?

I have added Stereo Mix to my recording devices on my laptop running Windows 7 after I have installed the driver for my soundcard (the sound was working until then with the driver from Microsoft, but there was no Stereo Mix). Trying to record Skype…
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How does a sound card determine if headphones are plugged in?

This is actually two questions in one. First, how do soundcards (the cheap ones) "detect" whether the headphones are plugged in? By measuring resistance or by some other technique? Second, can I somehow have different sound outputs sent to the…
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I am hearing my screen

Today I installed sound card drivers of my motherboard (Asus P6T SE), and now I have started hearing the things that are happening on my screen. When I scroll, or change windows, basically cause a redraw on screen, I hear noises kind of resembles…
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How to record what's playing on the soundcard using FFmpeg?

I am trying to record what's playing on my soundcard in Windows 8.1 I ran the following to determine what devices I have: ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy The output listed: DirectShow video devices (some may be both video and audio…
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How should I decide on a default audio format?

I see that Windows sets the default output format at 16-bit, 44100 Hz (CD Quality). Most of my music is in this format, but most of my movies use a 16-bit at 48 KHz format (named DVD quality in the Sound panel). The Windows system sounds are 16-bit…
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Virtual sound card driver for Windows

I have no sound card on my machine, but I want to (automatically) record screen with audio on it. So I thing it's some kind of virtual sound card driver needed to loop back sound send to play to microphone. Is there such solution for Windows OS?
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Sound stopped working after upgrading to Linux 5.4 (Intel HD Audio)

After upgrading from Linux 5.3 to Linux v5.4.2 on Arch Linux, all of my audio stopped working. The only thing I see in Gnome 3’s Sound settings is “Dummy Output” and aplay --list-pcm says: “No card(s) found.” and running alsactl init says: “alsactl:…
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What is using my sound card?

A couple weeks ago my speakers stopped working. When I reboot, they work perfectly. But eventually some mysterious, and I suspect nefarious, piece of software takes control. (On a related note, Youtube videos seem to stop working when the speakers…
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Windows 7 laptop's volume with headphones way too loud

I have two headphones, neither has any amps or volume control, and both have the same problem with this computer. I normally have the volume on 10%, and that is optimal. I'm still very afraid that someday it will be at 100% and i'll accidentally…
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How can I make Chromium use a different ALSA device?

I need one instance of Chromium on Linux to target a different sound card than the default, including Flash. Is there anyway to do this easily?
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How to restart audio without rebooting (USB soundcard) - the nasty case

I have a very similar problem to this: Is there a way to restart audio without restarting a Windows 7 computer? I've got a USB external sound card (Line6 UX1, the older one), the OS is Windows 7 x64. At a random moment (either when I'm playing a…
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