When I plug in the 3.5mm jack and play back media, headphone mode keeps toggling, resulting in audio cutting in/ out every second or so. Is there a way to force headphone mode or disable the 3.5mm jack detection?  I tried a couple of apps and searched the web but people seem to want to force speakers rather than headphones, so no luck.    (Android 4.2.2 Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite)
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It seems that the hardware erroneously regard the headset as attached at all times (to the 3.5" jack). This makes me unable to make calls without headset or speaker mode.
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I have a dell studio 1749. I just installed 12.04 on a dual boot with windows 7 (The stereo sound and headphones work perfectly when booted into windows, sound turned up before booting into Ubuntu). The stereo sound seems to be working fine. The headphones, not so much.   My computer has two headphone jacks. When I put my working headphones into the first jack, the stereo sound is muted but there is no sound in the headphones. When I put my headphones into the second jack, the stereo sound is still there and no sound comes out of the headphones. Two different problems?  I first tried the sound troubleshooting found . There seemed to be no problems. However, I'm not positive that my sound cards were on the list. It was a little convoluted for my noob self. I've tried the commands listed  but there were no changes. I've also brought up the alsamixer. The headphones don't appear to be muted or anything. I don't know how to switch to the second sound card and check that one, though.   Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I am using external USB audio card to handle speakers, also got the headphones connected to jack port. I need to switch them few times a day and getting extremely frustrated, as the only way I've found is:   Open search tool. Type: se. Click on 'Settings'. Navigate to 'Sound'. Change output to desired one.   On Unity I could navigate to 'Sounds Settings' from the audio icon in the tray. No idea how to do that on GNOME. Other than this finding GNOME superior to Unity. Happy that Canonical made that move.
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Is there an easy way of forcing mono sound output - for one ear, one earphone, one speaker?
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I do love to listen to music while watching text YouTube videos, but I can't because YouTube can't be muted.  I use the respect audio focus in  Music Player.  I have tried App Volume Control but it did nothing!
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I have a  bluetooth stereo headset (using A2DP) I'd like to use on my Lubuntu machine. The headset works fine with my phone.  Please note that unlike all other Ubuntu flavours, Lubuntu does not come with Pulseaudio.  It is detected by Lubuntu's Blueman Bluetooth configuration application and I can establish a connection successfully. It also appears to actually communicate as it shows data being sent back and forth. However, Sound keeps coming out of the loudspeakers only, while the headset remains silent. I would have expected the sound to come from my headset at this point.  Where do I start troubleshooting here?
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Problem In my apartment, when using the AirPods with my Mac, the audio is significantly choppy, fluttery and unreliable. There are frequently small &quot;pops&quot; when listening to music. The issue is not present when using the AirPods with my iPhone. The Apple Stack Exchange question you are reading now, is actually an update to my question on the same topic that was posted and resolved here previously. I had this very same issue while on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. We found out that the culprit was a bug introduced in that particular macOS version, and the problem went away with 10.12.5. I am now on 10.12.6 and having a quite identical problem. But I'm not confident that the OS is at fault this time. The reason is that I recently swapped my AirPods for a new pair, via an unrelated Apple support ticket. The new ones arrived via mail and I was instructed to pair them with my original case. The new pair of AirPods seem significantly more prone to skipping, stuttering and losing connection. I did not have this problem with my original AirPods, which I also used with 10.12.6 without problems (at least that I am cognizant of). Possible explanation I think I have found what's causing the skipping (albeit not the root cause), and it seems to be my iPhone Bluetooth signalling with its environment. Whenever that happens, there is a glitch/pop on the Mac ←→ AirPod connection. When I disable Bluetooth on the iPhone, the problems go away. I haven't changed anything in my environment except swapping the AirPods. No microwave in the background etc. I am quite confident that the reason is Bluetooth interaction from the iPhone. I am just not sure how to proceed, because the weird thing is that the problems started just when I replaced the AirPods for a new pair. Some plausible root causes are:  The new AirPods are in fact defect or come from a batch that are not as 'good' with Bluetooth. macOS 10.12.6 introduced a bug similar to the one in macOS 10.12.4, but I didn't realize it until much later (not that likely IMO, knowing how sensitive I am to audio quality). The pairing process whereby new AirPod buds were paired with an original case didn't go exactly right, and there is a firmware or software problem somewhere.  What I have tried  'Hard Reset' of the AirPods according to ; Resetting the iPhone Network Settings after &quot;Forgetting this device&quot; (the AirPods) as part of the AirPod 'Hard Reset'. Resetting the Mac Bluetooth Module according to .
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If I plug in speakers or headphones to my PC I get no audio out from either. In my sound setting, the default is set to the speakers and the little icon with the green bars moves up and down with the sound as if it is working.  I have done a clean reinstall of Windows 7 and still have the same problem. Device Manager shows all drivers are good. I've reinstalled them just in case and same issue. I've been using the motherboard CD to install the drivers. I tried to uninstall it and allowed Windows 7 to find the driver automatically and it did but I'm still having the same issue.  What are my options? Or what do you recommended I do?
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I have a Plantronics BackBeat Sense SE bluetooth headset. When Connecting it to Windows 10, it installs two profiles in Playback devices list:    PLT_BBTSENSE Hands-Free. PLT_BBTSENSE Stereo.   The Second one (Stereo) is set to be the "Default Device" and the "Default Communication Device" on the system.   At this point the sound works great and normally. The problem happens when I want to use the mic. When I start any program that uses the mic (recorder, chat, VoIP Calls, gaming, etc.) The sound suddenly stops working And I can only use the mic until I stop the recorder or the call.   The thing that kind of fixes the problem is setting the (Hands-Free) as the default device. I can hear the sound when I do that and it works with the mic but it becomes Very bad quality.  What I became to understand is that bluetooth had different profiles for sound and mic: A2DP and HSP. The first handle the voice(High Quality) but the latter handles the mic and reduces the sound quality.  Is this really the case? Is there anyway to make them work simultaneously? Is there any solution to this problem at all?
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I am a total newbie to Ubuntu, and I'm not sure what to do here. I have a Toshiba Chromebook. I had a friend install the latest version of Ubuntu on it for me. For a while, the audio in Ubuntu was working fine, but now I can't hear any audio whatsoever.  How can I fix this?
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I'm trying to use my headphones with my Ubuntu 13.10. My headphones are Nokia BH-905i, which can be connected via Bluetooth or green+pink wires.  If I use bluetooth, voice quality is terrible or microphone doesn't work. If I try to choose "Headset" option from In and Out tabs in Sound Settings, they're disabling each together.  In Out tab, I'm using "High sound quality A2DP", because it betters voice quality.  How could I get my microphone working? Sound out works fine.
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After I installed Ubuntu 12.04, there are no sound at all on my headphone (rear jack panel).  On Sound settings > playback, it seemed that the sounds were detected after I choose 'play sound'.  Anybody can fix this issue??  Thanks.
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I have connected speakers to the back panel of my computer at work and I would like to have them always enabled (I can switch them off on the speaker casing). However when I connect headphones on the front panel system automatically says that the rear output is unplugged.  I found a solution to disable auto detection with Alsamixer and it works almost ok except the fact that after system restart I need to reconfigure the settings again... How can I set this once and forget about it?
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Anyone know how I can set for an application to output its audio to a specific device in Windows? I'm dealing with applications where it's not possible to go into their settings and choose which output device you want to use.
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After plugging my headphones out, suddenly there is no sound from the internal speakers. When I press volume buttons, I see a circle-backslash symbol below the speaker icon.  Restarting doesn't help. However I do hear the startup chime. What should I do?
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When playing music on iTunes or similar and then locking the screen (accomplished by hitting the ⌃⌘Q key combination or selecting "Lock Screen" from the  menu), how do I prevent the media keys from functioning?   In particular, the play, skip, and pause buttons are still functional at this point. This is problematic because I tend to lock my screen in order to prevent my cat from wreaking havoc on my laptop when she steps on the keys -- but she's still able to mess up my music via the above, usually…
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As a Laptop user, I'm sure that a lot of people, even the ones using Netbooks would have already gone through this problem. Especially when listening to podcasts, and using it as an example, the sound might have loud moments and quiet moments, one person speaking loud and the other speaking very quiet in the same episode. Thereby, I always wanted the sound to be compressed system-wide, and I just noted the other day, that in Windows, some Realtek drivers already offer this function.  We have already a pulseaudio plugin for equalization system-wide, and although it still has problems like not letting us change its values and listen the change in real time, or cracking the sound while changing pulse volume, I do love it and use it. Now I'm just missing something to keep the sound around 0db (or near the volume level you're using) as a leveler plugin for pulseaudio.  Any suggestion?