Hello, that's weird, failing in middle of nothing, unless there was some kind of update happening, it does sound more like a hardware failure. Perhaps you may want to consider booting up a live Ubuntu session to see if the sound behaves differently there? If the installation media produces the same behavior as the installed OS, it's very likely a hardware problem. As for BT speakers, bluetoothctl is a very simple, straight-forward and efficient terminal utility I make regular use of when pairing my BT headphones to Linux devices, because the GUI interfaces usually don't work for various reasons. You just do: sudo bluetoothctl and use interactively, there is a help command that will list all available commands, the typical pairing procedure is: 1. Scan to find out the MAC address of the device 2. Pair with the device 3. Trust the device (this will make your PC autoconnect when the speakers are spotted) 4. Connect to the device For more detailed instructions, search one of the how to turn Raspberry pi into speakers tutorial, they usually contain the command sequence, or ask chatGPT, it could give you the relevant advice. It's one of the things I'm doing once per few years, and never remember the exact commands. Best regards Rastislav Dňa 30. 10. 2023 o 21:26 Jeffery Mewtamer napísal(a): > Okay, so last night, the 3.5 mm audiojack on the front of my Desktop > cut out in the middle of a youTube video and several reboots haven't > fixed sound coming out of it though I can still hear the faint crackle > that sometimes accompanies plugging/unplugging wired earphones. > > I've also tried plugging into the 3.5mm audiojack on the back of my > desktop, and get sound from none of them. > > I have a midi controller I recently discovered by accident can be used > as a USB speaker and it has an 3.5mm audiojack I currently have my > earphones plugged into, so I'm not completely without sound, but this > alternative has a few issues: > > 1. While YouTube videos and media played from my SDSD or harddrive > sound normal, for some reason, this setup introduces, I'm not sure if > distortion is the right word, but what Orca is making espeak-ng say > sounds off like the volume has been cranked up to high, but it happens > even at low volume. > > 2. Every few minutes, sound cuts out and I have to unplug and replug > the USB cable to get it back... and how often I need to do this seems > random and is sometimes under a minute(I've had to unplug and replug > the cable twice during the typing of this numbered point). > > 3. The Midi controller, even when acting as a USB speaker, also acts > like a stand alone music synth, and it's easy for it to make noise > that drowns out what's coming from my desktop. > > For what it's worth, I'm Running Debian with LXDE, installed from the > Debian 12.0.0 netinst and mostly upgraded to Debian Testing(I am > running Orca 43 because Orca 44/45 breaks one of my apps' > accessibility) and use Alsamixer in LXterminal for volume control. > > Anyone have any idea how to trouble shoot the 3.5mm audiojacks to > either determine its a software issue and fix it or determine its a > hardware issue(which I really hope it isn't, I just bought this > desktop earlier this year and it isn't even paid off), or at least how > to fix the TTS distortion or intermittent sound using the midi > controller as a USB speaker... I do have an Amazon Echo that can be > used as a Bluetooth Speaker, but I don't even know how to pair my PC > to any bluetooth device. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.