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
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.
- Reboot the computer, press shift after Bios screen
- Select Advanced Options
- Select Kernel 6.8.0.49 (or older)
Linux Mint is already on 6.8.0.51.
The crackling sound is also present there.
Then you have two options;
- Downgrade the kernel
- 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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Yesterday I have tested the Ubuntu Kernel 6.11 and the crackling sound is fixed on my machine.
Haven't tested earlier versions.
Its interesting that you folks mention this sound you are hearing. I can't get kernel updates, because I am still using Zorin OS 16.3 for now, which means my kernel is locked to 5.15.
I started noticing a sound that sometimes comes and goes, started about 2-weeks ago for me. What it sounds like, is a almost silent, and slight rumble, coming and going.
I don't know what it is, but it likely has something to do with the fact, that I am now using USB sound, through an external DAC. Another sound that I hear, (which turns out to be normal with USB sound) is when I am hovering over things on screen, navigating the net, opening/closing apps, I will hear a slight buzzing or ticking sound.
I've known about that for decades though, that one has to do with how onboard sound is past through the USB ports, in otherwords, there are no filters, to filter it out.
Anyways, I read a comment somewhere on the site, where somebody claimed that you have to install some kind of filter to block out that sound. I don't remember if its a software filter, or an actual piece of hardware, but yeah.
I am actually surprised that my 300 dollar audiophile grade DAC, doesn't have such a filter built in. Its honestly kind of strange. Now, I am running the signal after the DAC, into a vintage Realistic EQ box, but I never heard any bad sound coming from it before.
And then after that, the sound outputs the EQ box, into my 250 dollar audiophile grade headphone AMP, which also has THX certification, just as my DAC does. Highly unlikely for strange sounds to come from that, and never had before.
Again, I just think its the bane of our existence, using USB sound, when notebook manufacturers, never bother to install filters on the USB lines, to prevent interference from other connected components, from making unwanted noise.
