On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Sean Greenslade wrote:
OK, all of this suggests that the file did not record correctly. And after some experimentation myself, it seems like this is a known bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/822
Sean, What's the difference between parec and pacat? The former looks like the eqivalent to parecord or paca -r. Oh. When I started having issues I upgraded pavucontrol from -3.0 to -4.0. The last time the AT2500 worked as expected was with 3.0 installed.
It seems like the wav format does work, so give this variant a try: $ pacat -v -r --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav and $ pacat -v -p --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav
So I tried these with 4.0 and still no sound. $ pacat -v -r --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav Opening a recording stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and channel map 'front-left,front-right'. Connection established. Stream successfully created. Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, fragsize=352800 Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'. Connected to device alsa_output.pci-0000_0a_00.3.analog-stereo.monitor (index: 0, suspended: no). and $ pacat -v -p --file-format=wav /tmp/sounds.wav Opening a playback stream with sample specification 's16le 2ch 44100Hz' and channel map 'front-left,front-right'. Connection established. Stream successfully created. Buffer metrics: maxlength=4194304, tlength=352800, prebuf=349276, minreq=3528 Using sample spec 's16le 2ch 44100Hz', channel map 'front-left,front-right'. Connected to device alsa_output.pci-0000_0a_00.3.analog-stereo (index: 0, suspended: no). Stream started. Then I restored version 3.0 and saw the same results. I have some music files in .wav format. I just played one (pavucontrol version 3.0) using 'pacat -v -p --file-format=wav s-and-g.wav'. pavucontrol's Playback tab's VU meter moved as the song came out of the speakers. Darn! What else can I do to find why what's recorded by the mic won't play?
My Scarlett solo is an older gen, so it doesn't have an "air" switch. I was curious what that was, so here's what their docs have to say: Lol, it's just a fixed EQ curve. This should not be the cause of your issues, though feel free to use it if you like the tone it produces.
Yes, I have the Gen3 since I bought it mid-last year. I looked up 'air' in the manual and saw it would really not apply to speech but would to music. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
