#Audio Issues

[chahleybros]

Switching to Linux 🐧

Over the past couple years Windows 10 has been giving me progressively more asinine problems to deal with, from desktop issues and bloatware, to automatically installing out of date drivers to replace the ones I've manually installed.

Before you ask, I attempted using Windows 11 when it came out and I refuse to acknowledge its existence after the hell it put me through.

Most recently Windows 10 has seemingly made a point of making ASIO and all audio devices and software I use functionally useless, causing ridiculous amounts of crackling audio. No rollbacks fixed it, no re-installs fixed it, not even Reloading Windows fixed it. The reason for using ASIO is that Windows default audio protocol, WDM, has too much latency for live real-time use. This issue not only makes things like live-streaming basically impossible but it also outright made my Digital Audio Workstation and Video Editing Software incapable of processing audio for longer than a second without hanging. Both Mixcraft and DaVinci Resolve became useless on Windows 10, and OBS was barely holding it together. When I tell you I did everything to resolve this, I mean I spent an entire Month troubleshooting this. The only solution I could find was to abandon Windows all together.

I've been meaning to switch my Setup to Mint Cinnamon for a while as I've been testing it out in Virtual box for a year or so, and after this nonsense I got a new NMVe basically immediately to run Mint on, and after switching properly I have to say I'm likely to never use Windows as my Host OS again. And yes I tested Windows on the NMVe. The issue persisted there aswell. And testing Mint via Virtual Box on Windows with Hardware Exposed via PAE and AMD-V showed the issue was entirely on Windows.

For reference this is my current rig: Everything is the same as when using Windows 10

GPU: Nvidia RTX a4500 20gb

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600g

Ram: 16GB 3200mhz

DAC: PreSonus Audiobox iTwo

Capture Card: AverMedia HD Mini GC311

The Results:

Not only does Mint Cinnamon not have any of the issues I've had with Windows over the past Decade, which still persist to this day, but literally every single device I have just works.

Basically everything is Plug-n-Play with <20ms of latency on the Capture Card, which on Windows had a minimum of 600ms delay using drivers required for the card to even be detected. My Audio interface also works even better than before, with neither my DAC or Capture Card requiring manual driver installs, as their protocols are Native to the Linux Kernel.

Proton lets you play any Windows game on Steam that doesn't have explicit Linux Support, with Wine available for desktop applications. Both run better than a Native Windows install due to Mints lack of Bloatware.

Windows 10 has so much built-in Overhead that Mint can Emulate it through Virtual Box faster than if Win10 were the Host OS.

In Short: Fuck Windows. :) Also this is how my desktop looks currently:

You can make custom start menus. :)

[arriexs]

What is up with the ADR this season?!?

[rifftrack]

[parageist]

I NEED TECH SUPPORT PLEASE HELP

Is it possible to use Razer Kaira Pro bluetooth headphones, connect the USB-C port to my PC (in theory turning them into wired headphones), and be able to use the microphone and headphones at the same time without the audio quality getting completely screwed?

I have a pair of Razer Kaira Pro bluetooth headphones, but ironically, I would much rather them be wired than wireless. I am trying to record gaming videos but it's impossible to hear the game and record my voice at the same time while using bluetooth headphones, as the audio quality gets very muffled. The headphones do have a USB-C port on them, and I connected it to my PC, but I'm not sure what to do next... Now that the headphones have a wired connection and can in theory bypass the data transfer limitations of bluetooth, shouldn't they now work as a normal pair of headphones? I've tried it but nothing seems to happen, it just charges the headphones. However, looking at the Devices and Printers menu in the Windows control panel, there appears to be an audio device with a speaker icon called "Plugable UGA-2KHDMI", connected to a USB 3.0 port on my computer (and the USB-C cable going from my headphones to my computer is also connected to a USB 3.0 port, which makes me thing that the "Plugable UGA-2KHDMI" is my headphones, and I can select it as an audio playback device but it doesn't work, I can't hear anything even on full blast.

[helianenvy]

Im trying to listen to the songs and audio files people upload on here and for some reason its not playing. Wtf

I'm on mobile and I was able to listen to them two weeks back. I wasn't able to hear it before I even updated the app.

[supernaturalkickparty]

Anyone else's audio going kinda wonky?

[lonesome-pear]

i got and audio recording setup today and it was working for all of twenty minutes and then the microphone just. stopped picking up sound. i didn't change anything. i don't understand. i know its a fixable issue i just dont know how to fix it

[jynxeddraca]

Well, guess I won't be playing Dragon Age this weekend. I spent 2 hours trying to get the audio to not lag and skip and no matter what I do, I can't get the audio to work. Graphics look amazing, having zero issues with the graphics. Runs like butter. The audio? Without the subtitles I would have zero fucking clue what anyone was saying.

[angelicgaming1007]

If anyone uses windows game bar to record fair warning: I dunno if anyone else has this issue but make sure you save every cutscene you wanna record. After the 4 minute marker my audio corrupts in every recording with game bar with any and every game. OBS doesn't do this. If you want an alternative try OBS. However OBS will f*ck you over memory / CPU wise if you are an ex-streamer / youtuber like myself bc of all the different scenes and all the old stream alerts, so gfl if you ever were a streamer lmao. Hence why I was using gamebar and not OBS is because I have too many scenes and too much sh*t in it that its intensive on my PC with a big game like baldurs gate or hogwarts legacy. If anyone knows of a 3rd free alternative let me know because I would happily download another program just to record my game clips.

[batbabydamian]

collecting every one of Damian's "TT" with Dick in hearing range

Batman and Robin (2009) / Grayson (2014) #12 / Blackest Night: Batman #3 / Nightwing (2016) #29, 16, 17 / Batman (1940) #700, 706, 711 / DCU Halloween Special 2010 / Justice League of America (2006) #41 / Secret Origins (2014) #4 / Batman: Streets of Gotham #6 / Red Robin #11 / Batman and Robin (2011) #10 / Batman Inc (2012) #8 / Robin: Son of Batman #7 / Detective Comics #968, 975, 1000 / Batman (2016) #34 / Suicide Squad (2016) #26 / Dark Nights: Metal #3 / Batman: Alfred Pennyworth RIP / Batman: Urban Legends #21 / Batman: Gotham Nights (2020) #12 / All New-Batman: The Brave and the Bold #13 / Damian: Son of Batman #1 / The Boy Wonder #1 / Robins #5, 1

inspired by Dick doing the "TT" in Nightwing (2016) #121

[vbsvartalf]

A Sunday, for Audio Dramas, perchance?

It's been a while since I did an Audio Drama Sunday post, mostly because it's been a long time since I've been able to have an Audio Drama Sunday. Recently, Sundays have become my running days. Because my headphones aren't wraparounds, I have to wear a beanie or headband or something to keep them from bouncing out somewhere on miles 5 or 10 or whatever in between. However, because of the oppressive frontera heat recently, wearing anything on my head is a no go, so no headphones, no audio dramas, nothing but the sinister whisperings of my own subconscious thought bubbling and boiling to the surface to trouble and toil. I wore a beanie today and well, the run didn't go well. But I did get some audio drama so it's not a total loss (and it was 5 miles so it's not like it was nothing).

So, without further ado...

Hello from the Hallowoods - I'm on a HftHw relisten, well just starting over really, and I'm on episode 3: Books. It's fun to listen to all these little bits and pieces as individual stories before they start getting woven together into larger narratives. Quite rewarding!

A Game of One's Own - Maddy Searle dances on the line between TTRPG actual play and audio drama perfectly. They belong in both realms and there's not a lot of podcasts I think can actually do that. The first two episodes, Mountaintop Isolation, are very reminiscent of Until Dawn, with the same chance of death and dismemberment and horror. There's an equal amount of gameplay mechanics and roleplay that are both immersive and engaging. It momentarily helped me forget I was running up and down a hill in 90-degree weather at 9 in the morning.

Re:Dracula - Finally, finally, finally, I'm able to listen to this super popular series. Not sure why it took me so long to start, but I will blame so many audio dramas out there and so little time for me to actually listen to all the things I want. It's kind of like a TBR pile. You can never read all the books you want, you can never listen to all the audio drams you want. I listened to the bonus episode first, the "Vampire Hunter" interview and I have to say, I'm impressed with how immersive it is and how deep the worldbuilding is. Love it!

Totalus Jeffianus - a history podcast built on a huge in-joke from another history podcast. How the hell could that work? Well the history of the Jeffs of Rome is something people want, they've already had 10 episodes so far so that should tell you something. The first episode's audio is a bit janky and a bit quiet but I'm hoping that will improve as the episodes come out. Low quality audio at the start of a podcast is very nearly a history podcast must.

66B - This is an audio drama that makes my Bearchive brain go a bit crazy. It's a podcast almost no one has heard of in this "modern" era of podcasting (at least I never see it on recommendation lists), and the first three episodes are missing. I want, no no no, I NEED to know more about this podcast. The audio is a bit janky in places that makes me wince a bit and I have no idea who anyone is. Two girls, at least one is a witch (or mage), there's a landlady, and a demon who lives there but doesn't pay rent and is helpful(ish)? They live in a haunted flat that seems like a power nexus? It feels similar to shows like Saffron and Perri, Haunted House Flippers, and the Aletheian Society, maybe they were an unconscious inspiration? Who knows. Speaking of, if anyone, anyone knows where I can find the first three episodes, I would be in your debt, the Bearchives needs this show and it needs the first three episodes!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[jazzrazzberry]

Eight lost his memory for like two hours in the tv movie and it set a precedent

[royalarchivist]

Badlinu: Things could be worse! What about you, what have you been doing for the last, I dunno... Let's say... six and a half hours? [Laughs]

Tubbo:

Tubbo: ...I hate you so much.

[skunkox]

Puppy Dog Eyes

Who's using them least to most often

David:

Doesn't realize he's doing it and wouldn't believe you if you told him he was either. It mostly happens when he wants Angel to sit still and cuddle with him. Angel teases him about it every now and then. He'll just bury his head in the crook of their neck and deny it.

Milo:

Strategically uses them. Like when he wants to get out of playing a horror game. Or when he's trying to win a debate. Milo has been known to pick up Aggro and hold him next to his face. Puppy eyes on full display. The combo is lethal, and he knows it. There's also a quick change from puppy eyes to bedroom eyes that still boggles Sweetheart.

Darlin':

Does it all the time and doesn't even know. David, Ash, and Milo has seen it at least once. How quickly Sam would fold and how he'd struggle to hold himself back from locking them in a bear hug. They didn't wanna believe it when the guys joked about it, but Baaabe was quick to come with receipts. A picture found in the Mates group chat and taken by Sweetheart proved otherwise.

Asher:

All the damn time and to everyone. That's just how he's wired. Asher has one of those faces it's hard to say no to. It's not impossible, but it happens. Especially when he does it to people he's known nearly his entire life. There's a 50/50 success rate when it comes to Baaabe. They're used to his antics and doesn't have a problem with dishing out "consequences." But if there's no harm, why not let him have his way?

[soap-is-an-artist]

it took so long to get a doodle i was happy with, but AT LAST. Charlie <3