{"id":353,"date":"2011-08-10T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thoughtflow.dk\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:11:57","slug":"fixing-weird-sound-in-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/fixing-weird-sound-in-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing weird sound in Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ubuntu, my sound will go weird at random times when listening to music or looking at Youtube and other videos. Voices turn into robot sounds and music is distorted. When this happens, I simply type the following in the terminal:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\npulseaudio -k\r\npulseaudio --start\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Notice there is only one dash (-) in the first command and two in the second. This fixes the issue for me every time. It&#8217;s probably a good idea to pause whatever sound you are playing before doing the above.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: I should note, that it sometimes works just pausing the music, waiting a few seconds, and turning it back on.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ubuntu, my sound will go weird at random times when listening to music or looking at Youtube and other videos. Voices turn into robot sounds and music is distorted. When this happens, I simply type the following in the terminal: pulseaudio -k pulseaudio &#8211;start Notice there is only one dash (-) in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[73,74,75,72],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-distortion","tag-robot","tag-sound","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlebech.com\/thoughtflow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}