I hope it’s fine to ask this here, I’m using endeavor os with KDE and got some little speakers for my pc, they however only seem to play sound from the “front left” channel, is there a way to make pulse audio send all audio on it? Like, mono mode? I couldn’t find anything that does that…
Edit: Found a solution! Like i said before in a comment on this post turned out i was running pipewire-pulse, so i could use pipewire solutions! tried easyeffects and it perfectly fitted my needs, thanks for all the responses everyone!
I haven’t checked, but I assume PulseEffects must have a module to convert stereo to mono.
Pulse effects, is that some sort of addon to pulse audio? Will look into it, thanks!
It’s an application that runs in the background and applies all sorts of filters and effects to your sound before it goes to the speakers. It’s actually quite cool, it can upgrade a crappy set of speakers/headphones to a mediocre one by applying the right adjustments.
Oh i see, tried to install it here but it didn’t work, the app doesn’t start, Lots of people are recommending switching to pipewire, i think i may try that
I see. I’ve never used it but it sounds like a good suggestion :)
hey! So, i ended up trying to download this again and it worked perfectly, it was exactly what i needed, i think it didn’t work before cuz i had downloaded the wrong app, didn’t saw that the name was “easyeffects” and downloaded this “pulseeffects-legacy” one, which didn’t work probably cuz turned out i was using pipewire-pulse all along, so yeah, your suggestion was the one i needed soo, thank you!
I’m glad it’s working! Yeah, right after posting that message I also noticed they forked it with a new name.
Hmm, the easy way would be to simply set the balance to 100% left, but that’s just the left channel and not both. Maybe combined with some of the other’s suggestions it could work.
You can also use Helvum, it’s a patchbay native to Pipewire
Good god I remember doing this like 10 years ago. I don’t remember what I did, only that it was a nightmare. I only hope the situation has improved.
https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/pulseaudio-como-cambiar-a-mono-en-lugar-de-stereo/ this looks like something similar to the solution I came to in the end. Here’s some more information https://askubuntu.com/questions/17791/can-i-downmix-stereo-audio-to-mono and this https://askubuntu.com/questions/71863/how-to-change-pulseaudio-sink-with-pacmd-set-default-sink-during-playback/72076#72076
Good luck.
thanks!
If you use pipewire instead of pulse audio then you can install pipewire-jack and then use any of the jack patchbay applications to rewire the channels. Currently I use qpwgraph but there are several options.
Unfortunately I do not remember how, but I did this a few years back. However, I used jackd instead of pulseaudio on that machine, so that might be one of the requirements.
Ooh, will keep that in mind thank you!
First, change to pipewire, old man, pipewire is the new kid in the block and works great with Bluetooth headphones.
Then use streambay to do whatever you want with your audio.
Check this video: https://youtu.be/Zv1P6-kUn0c
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/Zv1P6-kUn0c
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I use qpwgraph that have the same Idea for pipewire. You can change all your inputs and outputs, I initially used to send the sound of programs to my discord input in order to stream with sound, but I also use to invert L and R when I’m watching on my couch and the wire does not fit to put the right speaker on the right so I just switch.
It is very easy.
Here some video, but I don’t think you will need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBGsbwMo40Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=TDBGsbwMo40
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
How much latency can you endure? There are several patch bays for Jack that will let you do this, maybe requiring a mixing plugin or something. Gstreamer also has your back https://stackoverflow.com/a/16480476/9331018
Vlc or ffmpeg can probably do something similar
I play osu! So latency is something I’d want as small as possible
Oh, i didn’t thought about that, won’t any solution have some sort of latency? Oh well, let’s see, i always play it with headphones so I’d Like to go with with a disablable method or something of that sort tho
either install an old version of pulseeffects or update to pipewire and set a mono filter
Just found out my system is actually running pipewire, so that’s why everything i tried didn’t work right! But when i checked i remember seeing pulse-audio
Or maybe i just read it wrong… well that makes things easier, will look into y’all suggestions about pipe, thanks!
