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driverag

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Registered: 2023-02-22

Posts: 5

Audio not working in certain programs like spotify and popcorn time

After a long fight, I managed to get audio working on my laptop for the most part.

Anything playing off of my web browse, such as youtube or spotify, works fine.

However, certain programs, like popcorntime, Spotify and vlc have no audio.

In the case of Spotify, I have tried both the aur and the official pacman versions, and when I try to play a song I get the prompt "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it."

For popcorntime, I just get no audio but the video keeps playing.

VLC prompts the message "Audio output failed: The audio device "default" could not be used. No such file or directory.".

I have pipewire, pipewire-alse, pipewire-audio and pipewire-jack installed.

If I try to use bluetooth or connect my headphones through the jack I get the same result, web browser sound works fine but the rest does not.

My laptop is the lenovo P1 gen 3.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,743

Re: Audio not working in certain programs like spotify and popcorn time

Install pipewire-pulse, which will fix the majority of those since all of them will use the pulse API as first priority.

If that didn't help for some reason, post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

during one of these not working use cases.

Last edited by V1del (2023-02-24 14:17:46)

driverag

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Registered: 2023-02-22

Posts: 5

Re: Audio not working in certain programs like spotify and popcorn time

That fixed it! I must have uninstalled it thinking it belonged to pulseaudio

Thanks for the help for my stupid mistake

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,743

Re: Audio not working in certain programs like spotify and popcorn time

Great, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first pos-