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Is it possible to make audio from both channels come out of the "front left" on pulse audio? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Quills to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Quills 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmmm have you considered a hardware solution? If you're using wired headphones you can get a few adapters to play the left channel in both ears.

Edit: wait that's the opposite, you can get adapters to (electrically incorrectly) connect both outputs to one side, or better yet get a tiny mixer that can do it correctly like this: https://a.co/d/9guRG3A you'll need a stereo splitter cable to get left and right outputs into separate channels, and maybe an adapter for the output

[–] Quills 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

sadly buying things would not be viable as i could just buy better speakers if i was going to spend more money anyway, but thanks for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see, is this a broken speaker situation? Maybe time to crack them open and do some fixing? Do you own a soldering iron?

[–] Quills 1 points 1 year ago

Nah i just bought them, just made a bad choice and got a low quality product, two speakers that only play one channel in both haha