I agree here, pavucontrol is the best way to manipulate your audio
input/outputs, which comes from the pulseaudio team as authoritative
control UI.  Sometimes I've found I need it just to make audio work at all
and set default sinks.

Most of the desktop-level controls seem to be sorely lacking, confusing, or
just too simple to handle when you have a lot of input/output devices.
Most are just wrappers around the same pulseaudio subsystem, just with
varying degrees of (generally poor) ui's to be built into the desktop by
someone shoving a square peg in a round hole.  Best just to go the source,
pavucontrol, it's always been far more intuitive than trying to figure out
what the desktop version.

It allows you to do some interesting audio routing things too...  One
example, I had a windoze xp vm I'd use with these ancient crap chinese wifi
cameras I have, one of which watches my birds.  The cam uses a decrepit
activex plugin that I could route "mic" sound at the cams, so would pipe a
monitor of my speaker under linux to the mic on my windoze vm with
pavucontrol, set to send mic audio to my camera to play music for the birds
using whatever mp3 player I'm using (or yell at them when being annoying)
under linux.

Also great when you have a bunch of usb audio devices too for selecting
per-app routing (headsets, conference speakers, multiple input/output on
different sound/video cards, etc).

-mb


On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 8:45 PM Dhruva Lokegaonkar <dhruva@lokegaonkar.in>
wrote:

> Install the pavucontrol package (Pulse Audio Volume Control). It really
> helpful when switching between audio devices. It shows you the monitor
> of all programs, input devices, and output devices in a really nice
> interface. And you can even choose which program should output to which
> devices.
>
> On 11/25/18 7:12 AM, Michael wrote:
> >
> > test sound did not work but switching to hdmi in the audio settings must
> > have fixed it
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 8:33 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
> > <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I just moved  and I am now using my tv as a monitor. I am connecting
> >     with hdmi and the video works great but not the audio. the tvs
> >     volume is up, i made sure hdmi was selected in settings and the
> >     audio players volume was up. Now I am lost. will you guys help?
> >
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