<div dir="ltr">You had the wrong output sink chosen for the apps inside pulseaudio volume control (pavucontrol) app.<div><br></div><div>You should be able to set the default sink in the output device tab, or disable the unused output sink in the devices so it only has the one you want.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:42 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">son of a gun. it is happening again and my botes (thread) don't explain how I fixed it the first time!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:02 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Fixed it! I had installed pavucontrol and found out the application was accessing the wrong device.</div>Thanks so much for the help.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:31 PM Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sounds like something is muting the apps, or pulse/alsa is broken all together.<div><br></div><div>Install pulseaudio volume contorl (pavucontrol), it's the great equalizer. Most dist mixer apps are crap/overly simplistic, including mint, and hide stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>In pavucontrol, the "playback" tab shows what apps are opening sound requests. Output Devices tab will show you just that, hardware such to output to speakers. When you launch youtube in a browser, you should see chromium show up in the playback with audio levels. You can control muting directly there as well, make sure they're not muted on either tab. Once you see audio db levels at the playback tab, pulse should route that to your output device, and again see a mirrored db level there for output device being played.</div><div><br></div><div>You can disable hardware here too if you have anything unused. Sometimes the os will decide to use another output sink, so watching where your audio in and audio out is going helps.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH!</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:41 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">the one that comes with Mint. Not trying to be a wise guy. I just don't know for sure. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Ok,<div>This is going to require a bit more research.</div><div><br></div><div>Btw, what sound system are you using in Linux?</div><div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and Development Division.</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 18, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_4559984011189949173gmail-m_5405118563566236424gmail-m_1112132996860834157gmail-m_5936077422820819721gmail-m_-1329243742238626778Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://cbs.com/" target="_blank">cbs.com</a> doesn't sound either.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hmmmmm. Ok.<div><br></div><div>So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound playback.</div><div><br></div><div>Well, lets see.</div><div>1. Permissions settings for the sound device?</div><div>2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound device?</div><div>3. Both browsers need updating?<br><div>4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)?</div><div><br></div><div>Btw, I just did a <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/" target="_blank">duckduckgo.com</a> search for the terms “Linux OS no sound in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear fruit in your case.</div><div><br></div><div>Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that can handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either of those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try playing one of the videos from <a href="http://anime9.com/" target="_blank">anime9.com</a> or one of the other movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the video content.</div><div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support Desk</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_4559984011189949173gmail-m_5405118563566236424gmail-m_1112132996860834157gmail-m_5936077422820819721gmail-m_-1329243742238626778gmail-m_-6753652075678075244Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them before.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want to work.<div><br></div><div>Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for sound playback of streaming content?</div><div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept.</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_4559984011189949173gmail-m_5405118563566236424gmail-m_1112132996860834157gmail-m_5936077422820819721gmail-m_-1329243742238626778gmail-m_-6753652075678075244gmail-m_7314301826182901772Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">now it seems youtube sound isn't working.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :)<div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept.</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_4559984011189949173gmail-m_5405118563566236424gmail-m_1112132996860834157gmail-m_5936077422820819721gmail-m_-1329243742238626778gmail-m_-6753652075678075244gmail-m_7314301826182901772gmail-m_-5983473611779866133Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename.<div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div>From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_4559984011189949173gmail-m_5405118563566236424gmail-m_1112132996860834157gmail-m_5936077422820819721gmail-m_-1329243742238626778gmail-m_-6753652075678075244gmail-m_7314301826182901772gmail-m_-5983473611779866133gmail-m_1196776374586982266Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"> what are they called. What do they look like?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere.<div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept.</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_4559984011189949173gmail-m_5405118563566236424gmail-m_1112132996860834157gmail-m_5936077422820819721gmail-m_-1329243742238626778gmail-m_-6753652075678075244gmail-m_7314301826182901772gmail-m_-5983473611779866133gmail-m_1196776374586982266m_-8971322171441868286Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when <br clear="all"><div>i ran it this time it complained about it already running. 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