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radiobla

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Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 65

Pulseaudio sample rate changes

I'm using an external USB audio interface (M-Audio M-Track Plus) on latest Arch.

Whenever I click on KDE Plasma sound icon on system tray, the audio sample rate changes from the default 44100Hz (I set on daemon.conf) to 48000Hz. I don't need to do anything else, just clicking the icon makes pulseaudio to change it. Thus, the pitch of the audio I'm listening gets lower instantly.

This issue also happens when running some games on Steam (probably the ones which uses Proton/Wine).

$ pacman -Qi pulseaudio
Name            : pulseaudio
Version         : 14.2-3

I tried to set Pulseaudio default sample rate to 44100 on /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, but it seems to have no effect.

$ grep sample-rate /etc/pulse/daemon.conf 
default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000

As you can see below, Pulseaudio keeps using 48000Hz and, even if I force it to 44100, it keeps changing when running some applications (as the example I gave of Steam and KDE sound system tray icon).

$ pacmd list-sinks | grep sample
        sample spec: s32le 2ch 48000Hz

$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
...
 1 [Plus           ]: USB-Audio - M-Track Plus
                      M-Audio M-Track Plus at usb-0000:00:14.0-2, high speed
...

As you can see, ALSA is working with 48000Hz.

$ cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params 
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S32_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 48000 (48000/1)
period_size: 44100
buffer_size: 88200

If I could just set the sample rate to be fixed on some frequency, it would be great.

So far, there's nothing I do that fixes the issue.

Does anyone have any clues?

Thanks

Last edited by radiobla (2021-04-25 13:31:09)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,005

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

If you set both the alternate and the default-sample-rate to the same value, do you still have issues? FWIW if the alsa HW params give you this output then you probably want to do the reverse and fixate on 48000 since that's what the interface supports.

radiobla

Member

Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 65

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

Thank you, V1d3l.

Setting both default and alternate sample rates serves as a workaround (but works). I'm pretty sure that my interface supports 44100Hz. I was trying to use 44.1kHz in order to define a standard to work with pro-audio.

BTW, neither Plasma sound system tray function or Steam games should have this strange behavior.

When the problem happens, the only solution is to restart Pulseaudio service.

Thanks

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,005

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

This can happen if you have an interface that claims to be able to do something but runs into issues when actually doing that something. There are many buggy cards that claim support for both and then fail when actually trying to do that. What's the output of

sudo lsusb -vd$VID:$PID

with the relevant vid and pids replaced for the device?

radiobla

Member

Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 65

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

I got a huge output. Here it goes:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0763:4009 M-Audio M-Track Plus
Device Descriptor:
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  bcdUSB               2.00
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  idProduct          0x4009 
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           1 M-Audio 
  iProduct                3 M-Track Plus
  iSerial                 0 
  bNumConfigurations      2
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    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength       0x0118
    bNumInterfaces          4
    bConfigurationValue     1
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    bmAttributes         0x80
      (Bus Powered)
    MaxPower              500mA
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      bDescriptorType        11
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      bFunctionClass          1 Audio
      bFunctionSubClass       0 
      bFunctionProtocol      32 
      iFunction               0 
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      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           0
      bInterfaceClass         1 Audio
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Control Device
      bInterfaceProtocol     32 
      iInterface              3 M-Track Plus
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        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      1 (HEADER)
        bcdADC               2.00
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        wTotalLength       0x0077
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        bDescriptorType        36
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        bClockID               41
        bmAttributes            3 Internal programmable clock 
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          Clock Frequency Control (read/write)
          Clock Validity Control (read-only)
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        bDescriptorType        36
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        bClockID               40
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          Clock Selector Control (read/write)
        iClockSelector          8 M-Audio Clock Selector
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        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID             2
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        bCSourceID             40
        bNrChannels             2
        bmChannelConfig    0x00000000
        iChannelNames          13 M-Track Plus 1
        bmControls         0x0000
        iTerminal               6 M-Audio M-Track Plus
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
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        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      6 (FEATURE_UNIT)
        bUnitID                10
        bSourceID               2
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        bmaControls(1)     0x0000000f
          Mute Control (read/write)
          Volume Control (read/write)
        bmaControls(2)     0x0000000f
          Mute Control (read/write)
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        iFeature                0 
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
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        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID            20
        wTerminalType      0x0301 Speaker
        bAssocTerminal          0
        bSourceID              10
        bCSourceID             40
        bmControls         0x0000
        iTerminal               0 
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        bDescriptorType        36
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        bTerminalID             1
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        bNrChannels             2
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        iChannelNames          13 M-Track Plus 1
        bmControls         0x0000
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        iFeature                0 
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        bTerminalID            22
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        bmControls         0x0000
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      (Bus Powered)
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          PCM
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can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
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  (Bus Powered)

Flemur

Member

Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 72

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

Thank you, V1d3l.
Setting both default and alternate sample rates serves as a workaround (but works). I'm pretty sure that my interface supports 44100Hz. I was trying to use 44.1kHz in order to define a standard to work with pro-audio.

I've been doing the same thing, setting default and alternate sample rates to 44100, then if I check the card with (and some audio running)

cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params

it returns those values  (rate: 44100, format: S16_LE)

I use this to check the card's abilities (to ensure that 44100 was available):
grep rates /proc/asound/card0/codec\#0

    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    rates [0x60]: 44100 48000
    rates [0x60]: 44100 48000
    rates [0x5e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000

I dunno what the difference between, e.g. 'rates [0x560]' and 'rates [0x5e0]'...but they all show 44100.

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radiobla

Member

Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 65

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

Flemur,

Do you have this same audio interface? (M-Audio M-Track Plus)

I don't have this codec#0 file on my /proc/asound. Strange.

Last edited by radiobla (2021-04-26 18:40:54)

radiobla

Member

Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 65

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

I don't know either, but it could to be related with Input or Ouput sample rate, or maybe to the Analog or Digital I/O.

Last edited by radiobla (2021-04-26 18:41:27)

Flemur

Member

Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 72

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

Flemur,
Do you have this same audio interface? (M-Audio M-Track Plus)

Nope, just an onboad Intel chip.  But I wouldn't mind having one of those gizmos!

I don't have this codec#0 file on my /proc/asound. Strange.

To see what's there, try something like

du -a /proc/asound

FWIW, I got involved in this stuff* when I noticed that the default pulseaudio settings made it resample my 44.1K files to 48K.

AND I noticed that even outputting directly to alsa, as the link below, alsa would resample 44.1 to 48 without using pulseaudio.
Edit: The above is INcorrect; I'm experimenting, and (outputting direct to) alsa doesn't resample 44.1 to 48k with one source playing, at least as shown by

cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params

where it matches the input,  44.1 or 48.

*https://www.head-fi.org/threads/bit-per … ux.561961/

Last edited by Flemur (2021-04-26 20:07:43)

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radiobla

Member

Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 65

Re: Pulseaudio sample rate changes

Edit: The above is INcorrect; I'm experimenting, and (outputting direct to) alsa doesn't resample 44.1 to 48k with one source playing, at least as shown by

cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params

where it matches the input,  44.1 or 48.

The resample usually happens with more than one sources playing. For example, I'm listening to music on web then I open a game on Steam so the issue (resampling) happens. It happens specially with games on Proton.

I use Jack2 for pro-audio also. If you have Jack running, the problem doesn't happen. At least, not with me.

I bet it's a bug on Pulseaudio.

Flemur, what is your current setup (Window/Desktop Manager, Web Browser, etc)? Do you use "pro-audio"?

As I've mentioned on previous posts, when I click on the "Sound" icon on Plasma system tray, the resampling happens instantly.