Pulse If you have pulse, use pulse. Check with which pulseaudio. No output means you need to use alsa (below). Volume Control 1pactl set sink @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5% Find working outputs: 1aplay -l #Sound Settings Surround.5 seems best. Find what Sound settings exist amixer scontrols Change a Sound setting 1amixer set …

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Basics Add your user to the audio group, and install festival-english. 1echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)" >> /usr/share/festival/voices.scm 1echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")" /usr/share/festival/voices.scm Set Default Voice Edit ~/.festivalrc with (set! …

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Basics Translate a media file to a new type. ffmpeg -i [input file] output_file.mkv The input file might be a device, such as a camera. #Record screen Take the format as 'grab the x11 screen'. 1ffmpeg -f x11grab -s [screensize] -i :0.0 out.mkv Get screensize with 1xrandr -q or maybe just... 1ffmpeg -f x11grab -s …

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Setup Configuration This is a minimum configuration file for /etc/mpd.conf music_directory "/var/lib/mpd/music" playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists" db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db" pid_file "/run/mpd/mpd.pid" state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate" user "mpd" audio_output { type "pulse" name "My Pulse Output" } …

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Music Player Daemon Install, then run as user with all configuration files in ~/.config/mpd/. Go down config list, copied from /usr/share/docs/mpd/ or something. mpd-configure Problem solving I couldn't change volume, so in mpd.conf I uncommented the pulse audio lines and restarted mpd. This allowed pulse audio output, …

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