How to control your Pulseaudio sound volume using the command line.

Pulseaudio can easily be controlled with the command line. The pactl utility is used to control the sound volume of a Pulseaudio sink. List all sinks with this command. jason@jason-desktop:~$ pactl list sinksjason@jason-desktop:~$ pactl list sinks Then look through the list to see which is the device you wish to…

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How to turn on line-in with Pulseaudio on Ubuntu 18.04.

The default pulseadio configuration does not automatically load the module to run line-in input for listening to audio from an external device. But this simple command will load this easily. 4.4 Thu Nov 15 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ pactl load-module module-loopback 314.4 Thu Nov 15 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ pactl load-module module-loopback…

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A useful Pulseaudio application for your Linux desktop.

I was using the Xfce4 desktop and I needed a Pulseaudio mixer application. This one is just fine. I am using a desktop that did not come with a Pulseaudio mixer by default and I found out that the pavucontrol is a perfect application for controlling audio. Type this command…

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