Sound issues after playing any audio

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I need help with my os everytime i play a video or anything audio related it keeps on makeing this high pitch noise and stops makeing any audio and then continues to normal but then does it again latter on is there any way to fix this at all

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Welcome to the forum!

So first off, I'm going to be annoying and ask a bunch of questions to get this started:

  • Is this a new install or has been installed for a while?
  • Has the audio ever worked properly, even in the live ISO, or never properly?
  • Are you playing audio through wired in speakers or bluetooth?
  • Or is the audio possibly through HDMI or something similar?
  • Is the problem only 1 application or everything?
  • Zorin OS 17 Core or Lite?

Sorry for all the questions, just want to get a baseline for everything. From your description, it sounds like the audio may be going to "sleep" then "waking" to staticy playback for a while, then stops. Then I would assume that you leave audio off for a bit, come back and it repeats. Can you confirm that's the sort of steps to replicate?

To me, if that's the case, it sounds like something similar to this in reference to sample rate:

Or possibly when it goes idle, such as here:

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What sound card/s do you have?

Could it be feedback? (e.g. mic picking up sound from speakers)
Try turning all your audio inputs volume settings to zero.

You could also have a play with alsamixer. Start a terminal session (Ctrl+Alt+T) then type:

alsamixer

Hit F6 to confirm correct sound card selected.
Hit F5 to display All input and output audio channels.
Maybe post a screenshot of that here.

In alsamixer have a play with [Auto-Mute] and [Feedback mode] settings to see if any effect.

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About a week ago this noises started to happen on my computer too. After Kernel 6.8.0.50 update.

I have already tried every one of those 'remove crackling' tutorials over there. None solved the problem.

Happens on Live USB as well; only on AMD card through HDMI; Happens on both Wayland and Xorg; Happens on both Pipewire or Pulseaudio;

I could only solve it by starting with an older Kernel version.

  1. Reboot the computer, press shift after Bios screen
  2. Select Advanced Options
  3. Select Kernel 6.8.0.49 (or older)
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Linux Mint is already on 6.8.0.51.
The crackling sound is also present there.

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Then you have two options;

  1. Downgrade the kernel
  2. Upgrade the kernel and pray for they have fixed the issue.
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I can tell you they are on Core. I just clicked their avatar to discover this!

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