Radio3.0 No sound

[Padre2]

Applet version/Build date

2.0.2

Cinnamon version

6.0.4

Distribution

Arch 6.6.9

Graphics hardware and driver used

AMD Radeon HD 5430

Applet name and maintainer

Radio3.0@claudiux @claudiux

What happened?

After Radio3.0 working properly using pulseaudio, had some issues with the system and, after fixing, lost the sound in the Radio3.0 applet. Media players have sound and no other apparent sound issues. Reinstalled pulseaudio and Radio3.0, no change except that the sound volume % next to the panel icon remains at 100% and does not respond to volume changes, Installed Sound 150% applet and the selected radio station showed in the tool tip, but still no sound. Uninstalled Sound 150% applet.

Other information

Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400]

[claudiux]

@Padre2 What does the pactl info command return?

[Padre2]

@claudiux zsh 1031 % pactl info Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native Library Protocol Version: 35 Server Protocol Version: 35 Is Local: yes Client Index: 31 Tile Size: 65472 User Name: victor Host Name: phenom Server Name: pulseaudio Server Version: 17.0 Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor Cookie: 4392:7013

[Padre2]

@claudiux My short-time memory is getting bad. I just reread the Manual and noted the dependencies needed for Radio3.0: mpv sox pacmd libnotify-bin yt-dlp ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer python3-polib python3-brotli I then remembered the pop-up with the download information. This pop-up did not appear when I reinstalled the applet. Checking the above it seems that libnotify-bin python3-polib and python3-brotli are missing. Could you please post the download instructions for all of them here so I can reinstall them.

[claudiux]

@Padre2 For Arch:

sudo pacman -Syu mpv sox at libnotify youtube-dl ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer python-brotli

yay -S python-polib

To install Yay on in Arch Linux and other Arch-based systems, run the following commands one by one:

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

cd yay

makepkg -si

[claudiux]

Just tested on Arch Linux rolling. This applet works very well.

[Padre2]

Thanks for the above and yay - have always used yay on Arch. I think yt-dl should be yt-dlp. Ran and installed everything, but no change after rebooting and reinstalling the applet, also sound still at 100%. I'm sure the problem is not in the applet. Mystery!

[claudiux]

So, I close this issue. I'll update the help file. Thanks to you.

[claudiux]

Please check your output in Cinnamon sound settings.

[claudiux]

I will recreate my VM with Arch Linux to try the installation of this applet.

[claudiux]

Installing Arch Linux once is a great way to learn a lot. Installing Arch Linux twice drives you crazy.

[claudiux]

@Padre2 You don't need to install pulseaudio, but pipewire-pulse. EDIT: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

[claudiux]

When pipewire-pulse is installed, right-click on this applet and select "Do not check dependencies". Reboot Cinnamon.

[Padre2]

Thanks for the above and yay - have always used yay on Arch. I think yt-dl should be yt-dlp. Ran and installed everything, but no change after rebooting and reinstalling the applet, also sound still at 100%. I'm sure the problem is not in the applet. Mystery!

[Padre2]

@claudiux Many thanks for your continued support with the issue. Since we are sometimes digressing from the issue, is there any way I can reach you by email to discuss Arch issues? Regarding the use of pipewire, I had previously considered this, but since I had no problems with pulseaudio, I did not try it and had read that there were conflicts between them, with people losing their sound altogether. I installed pipewire and was asked to remove pulseaudio. After that I rebooted and received a message from the applet: “Spices Update message: Some packages needed! To complete the installation, please enter and execute the command: sudo pacman -Syu && sudo pacman -S pulseaudio". Although I checked before doing this, there was still no sound in the applet. So I am now back to square 1. I have done a lot of searching, but found nothing that has fixed the issue. I do have a question regarding the settings in the Pulse Audio Volume Control. In the Configuration tab (see image), The Cedar HDMI Audio shows Profile: Off. Shouldn’t this be On? N.B. My sound is working normally in media players and notification sounds., I have searched many postings about this but haven’t yet found an answer.

[claudiux]

Perhaps this can help you: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282261

[Padre2]

@claudiux Thank you for the link. Yes I had read that one and it is possible that it is a kernel issue. I have never downgraded the kernel and would try it as a last resort. Perhaps I will try a new Arch installation on another drive and see if I can reproduce the problem.

[Padre2]

@claudiux Thank you for the link. Yes I had read that one and it is possible that it is a kernel issue. I have never downgraded the kernel and would try it as a last resort. Perhaps I will try a new Arch installation on another drive and see if I can reproduce the problem.

[Padre2]

I made an Arch installation (same kernel) on another drive including the Cinnamon DE, pulseaudio and pavucontrol. I noted that the Volume Control displayed identically with the HDMI Audio showing Profile: Off, so I think that this is not the problem. I installed Radio3.0 and had the same no-sound issue. I then installed Radio++ and to my surprise it had sound. Returning to my old installation, I reinstalled Radio++ and it worked there too. This may give you some insight into why Radio3.0 does not have sound. Perhaps if time tomorrow I can try downgrading the kernel in the new installation to see if this solves the issue.

[claudiux]

Mmmh, have you installed mpv-mpris? It seems to me that Radio++ installs it from source. So, if you install Radio++ and then Radio3.0, it may work fine.

[Padre2]

It's late here, but I checked and mpv-mpris is installed. I uninstalled and reinstalled Radio3.0, but still no sound. I will check more tomorrow.

[Padre2]

Have been checking packages that have a sound connection and found that clicking it in the menu opens it. I use vlc so am not familiar with mpv. I see to use it you just drop a music or video file. If i do this it just closes mpv. I ran: mpv -v --audio-device=help
[cplayer] Command line options: '-v' '--audio-device=help' [cplayer] mpv v0.38.0 Copyright © 2000-2024 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects [cplayer] built on Apr 18 2024 06:31:17 [cplayer] libplacebo version: v6.338.2 [cplayer] FFmpeg version: n6.1.1 [cplayer] FFmpeg library versions: [cplayer] libavutil 58.29.100 [cplayer] libavcodec 60.31.102 [cplayer] libavformat 60.16.100 [cplayer] libswscale 7.5.100 [cplayer] libavfilter 9.12.100 [cplayer] libswresample 4.12.100 [cplayer] Configuration: -Db_pie=true -Dpython.bytecompile=1 -Dlibmpv=true -Dgl-x11=enabled -Dcaca=disabled -Dcdda=enabled -Ddvbin=enabled -Ddvdnav=enabled -Dlibarchive=enabled -Dopenal=enabled -Dprefix=/usr -Dlibexecdir=lib -Dsbindir=bin -Dauto_features=auto -Dbuildtype=plain -Dwrap_mode=nodownload [cplayer] List of enabled features: alsa av-channel-layout avif-muxer build-date cdda cplugins cuda-hwaccel cuda-interop dmabuf-interop-gl dmabuf-wayland drm dvbin dvdnav egl egl-drm egl-wayland egl-x11 ffmpeg ffnvcodec gbm gl gl-x11 glibc-thread-name glob glob-posix gpl iconv jack javascript jpeg jpegxl lavu-uuid lcms2 libarchive libass libavdevice libbluray libdl libplacebo linux-fstatfs luajit memfd-create openal pipewire posix posix-shm ppoll pthread-condattr-setclock pulse rubberband rubberband-3 sixel uchardet vaapi vaapi-drm vaapi-wayland vaapi-x11 vapoursynth vdpau vdpau-gl-x11 vector vk-khr-display vt.h vulkan vulkan-interop wayland wayland-protocols-1-27 wayland-protocols-1-31 wayland-protocols-1-32 x11 xv zimg zimg-st428 zlib [cplayer] Reading config file /etc/mpv/encoding-profiles.conf [ifo_dvdnav] Opening /etc/mpv/encoding-profiles.conf [bdmv/bluray] Opening /etc/mpv/encoding-profiles.conf [file] Opening /etc/mpv/encoding-profiles.conf [cplayer] Applying profile 'default'... [cplayer] Setting option 'v' = '' (flags = 8) [cplayer] Setting option 'audio-device' = 'help' (flags = 8) [ao/pipewire] Headers version: 1.0.5 [ao/pipewire] Library version: 1.0.5 [1] 23930 segmentation fault (core dumped) mpv -v --audio-device=help

Searching segmentation fault (core dumped) found one caused by mesa that was fixed by downgrade, but my attempt to try this was stopped by dependency conflict(s). Any suggestions? Fyi, it seems that both pulseaudio and pipewire are installed. pulseaudio --version pulseaudio 17.0 pipewire --version pipewire Compiled with libpipewire 1.0.0 Linked with libpipewire 1.0.5

[claudiux]

Also on my system both pulseaudio and pipewire are installed, but pulseaudio is provided by pipewire-pulse. The command pactl info returns:

...
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.48)
...

Please try this command:

/usr/bin/mpv --no-resume-playback --no-stop-screensaver --script=/home/$USER/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Radio3.0@claudiux/scripts/mpvWatchTitle.lua --no-video --metadata-codepage=auto --input-ipc-server=/run/user/1000/mpvradiosocket --cache=yes --stream-buffer-size=1MiB --cache-on-disk=no https://i4.streams.ovh:8352/stream

On my computer, I hear this radio station and the output is like:

 (+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3 2ch 44100Hz)
File tags:
 icy-title: Matt Thorpe - New Blues
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float
A: 00:00:46 / 00:00:57 (82%) Cache: 10s/443KB

Stop with Ctrl+C. Don't care about error messages after Ctrl+C.

[Padre2]

pactl info [/home/victor/.config/pulse/client.conf:1] Unknown lvalue 'ao' in section 'n/a'. Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native Library Protocol Version: 35 Server Protocol Version: 35 Is Local: yes Client Index: 8 Tile Size: 65472 User Name: victor Host Name: phenom Server Name: pulseaudio Server Version: 17.0 Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor Cookie: c573:3a3f

[Padre2]

/usr/bin/mpv --no-resume-playback --no-stop-screensaver --script=/home/$USER/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Radio3.0@claudiux/scripts/mpvWatchTitle.lua --no-video --metadata-codepage=auto --input-ipc-server=/run/user/1000/mpvradiosocket --cache=yes --stream-buffer-size=1MiB --cache-on-disk=no https://i4.streams.ovh:8352/stream

(+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3 2ch 44100Hz) File tags: icy-title: BluesRadio - BluesRadio,Play Blues24-7 [1] 3758 segmentation fault (core dumped) /usr/bin/mpv --no-resume-playback --no-stop-screensaver --no-video

I note the segmentation fault. Also on my new separate fresh install the applet plays well, except is has the same frozen 100% volume next to the icon.

[Padre2]

Eureka, I fixed it. I downgraded mesa from version 24 to 23 by deleting a conflicting file. On rebooting my DE had no bottom panel, or menu. I immediately ran pacman -Syu and was amazed at the files that were to be installed:

Packages (14) alsa-card-profiles-1:1.0.6-1 chromium-124.0.6367.201-1 freetds-1.4.13-1 fzf-0.52.0-1 gedit-plugins-47.1-1 geoclue-2.7.1-3 libngtcp2-1.5.0-1 libpipewire-1:1.0.6-1 mesa-1:24.0.6-2 nss-3.100-1 pipewire-1:1.0.6-1 pipewire-audio-1:1.0.6-1 pipewire-session-manager-1:1.0.6-1 python-cryptography-42.0.6-1

Total Download Size: 106.62 MiB Total Installed Size: 453.11 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.95 MiB

Seeing all the related audio files looked promising. So much happens behind the scenes in Linux. I installed with only one issue: 8/11) Compiling GSettings XML schema files... /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.system.wsdd.gschema.xml:4:1 Error on line 4 char 1: not (yet) defined.. This entire file has been ignored.

All completed without any problem and I rebooted to find my desktop back to normal and the applet sound now working. The volume by the icon is still 100% but I can turn it off. The mpv player is working as it should. Can I communicate with you directly via the GitHub email?

[claudiux]

We're on the move! I always keep all my packages up to date; it's much safer.

The volume by the icon is still 100%

I don't understand why. Do you use the middle button by rolling over the icon of this applet to change the volume of the radio sound?

[Padre2]

I always run pacman -Syu and yay -Syu using aliases, when I first start Arch every morning. As you discerned earlier, some issues were probably caused by HDD errors. I had a major problem last week and had to reinstall several packages. Probably some of the issues were hidden in dependencies that may have been affected. I presume in such cases the package must be removed, which forces removal of dependencies, before reinstalling. I am hoping to clone the system to a new HDD soon - Clonezilla? Regarding the 100% volume next to the icon and the middle buttonl, I never use it. Checking now, the button does change the value, but does not change the actual sound level.

[claudiux]

To clone a hard disk, I boot my computer onto the Linux Mint live-DVD and use GParted. If you have hard disk errors, change that hard disk quickly!

[Padre2]

I just ran pacman -Syu and yay -Syu on the new installation and go almost the same package updates. I just updated Radio3.0 but using the middle button changes the % displayed, but not the actual volume.

[claudiux]

Start a radio with this applet, then right-click on the sound applet (not this applet) and open the Applications submenu. You should see a line with a cursor for Mpv. Move this slider. The volume indicated on this slider should be the same as that indicated for Radio3.0.

[Padre2]

Yes, now the volume % is working, even after closing the sound applet, but after restarting the Radio3.0, without the Sound applet, it is no longer working.

On 12 May 2024 20:47:13 GMT+07:00, claudiux @.***> wrote:

Start a radio with this applet, then right-click on the sound applet (not this applet) and open the Applications submenu. You should see a line with a cursor for Mpv. Move this slider. The volume indicated on this slider should be the same as that indicated for Radio3.0.

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[Padre2]

Unaware that the sound applet, which I normally don't use, can control various applications, I had a problem with the browser, which would not play any YouTubes. This could be fixed by installing pipewire-media-sessions, which then would require the removal of pulseaudio and other packages. If implemented YouTube could be run, but no radio sound. Now I understand what was happening. Btw, running: /usr/bin/mpv --no-resume-playback --no-stop-screensaver --script=/home/$USER/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/Radio3.0@claudiux/scripts/mpvWatchTitle.lua --no-video --metadata-codepage=auto --input-ipc-server=/run/user/1000/mpvradiosocket --cache=yes --stream-buffer-size=1MiB --cache-on-disk=no https://i4.streams.ovh:8352/stream no longer produces an error.

[claudiux]

Did you try my applet sound150@claudiux? https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/306

[Padre2]

Yes, I have tried isound150 and it works well. I am on a desktop with amplified external speakers so non really need it, but assume it would be great for a laptop. I seem to have got all the sound issues sorted. The replacement of pulseaudio by pipewire-pulse solved the browser issue and the volume % is working.

To clone a hard disk, I boot my computer onto the Linux Mint live-DVD and use GParted. I do have Live Linux Mint on a USB with gparted, which allows me to work on the old and new drives ( using MBR). I tried to using CloneZilla, but it stopped after finding disk errors. I ran e2ssck -cv /dev/sda1 and it found 6 errors with two files. This didn't fix the errors as Clonezilla stopped again. Should I be using dd per following: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress I will give it a try.

[claudiux]

Using GParted, you can try copying the partitions (one by one) from the old disk to the new one. After copying a partition, you can resize it (on the new disk) before copying the next one.

[Padre2]

Regarding the cloning of Arch from the old drive to a new one, I created a partition of the same size on the new larger HDD and ran: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress On booting, it opened with boot rescue. Booting again with the live Mint USB, I was able to chroot into the Arch and run: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg The new installation booted and appeared to run well, with all the applets running and even my LAMP server with PHP 7.4 - 8.3 ran my test sites without apparent issues. Unfortunately one issue on the old drive that I hadn't corrected was still there. My internal SSD, HDD and removable drives do not show up in Nemo, although I can see the in GParted. I have spent considerable time trying to fix this looking at fstab, udisks2 and many other packages and settings without success. Any ideas?

[claudiux]

What tells the mount command?

Try with gio mount .... See man gio.

[Padre2]

I took a look at gio, but had no success. I am looking for what happened to stop the internal and external drives from mounting. I had no problems previously. I ran: mkinitcpio -p linux ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default' ==> Using configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img ==> ERROR: Invalid option -g -- '/boot/initramfs-linux.img' must be writable ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback' ==> Using configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect ==> ERROR: Invalid option -g -- '/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img' must be writable` In Properties, these files.are Owner: root and Access: read and write. Confused by the ERROR: Invalid option -g - where is that option used? How do I fix this error? The Disks application ([gnome-disk-utility 46.0-1) is empty.

[claudiux]

And using sudo ?

[Padre2]

Oh dear! It was 32 C in the room (air conditioner not working) where I was and I just didn't notice I was missing sudo. Sorry, good that I gave up at that point. Using sudo, it ran normally. Nothing else changed and still not seeing the other drives in Nemo or any drive in Gnome Disks.

[claudiux]

What does the mount command tell you?

[Padre2]

Ran sudo dmesg and got the following errors: systemd-fstab-generator[252]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/-.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'? [ 14.824574] systemd-fstab-generator[252]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/-.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab' [ 14.825366] (sd-exec-[248]: /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator failed with exit status 1. Did not see duplicate fstab file and commented out fstab in the etc directory restarted and ran sudo dmedg again - no errors. checking /etc/fstab, a new file, but no drives listed.`

Ransudo blkid [sudo] password for victor: /dev/sdb2: LABEL="480 GB Windows 7" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="168678DD8678BEB5" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="61184e8a-02" /dev/sdb1: LABEL="System Reserved" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="346A4AFA6A4AB7FE" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="61184e8a-01" /dev/sda1: UUID="17336e10-7adb-4750-afed-b14596146545" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="3083bb4a-01"

This is my present fstab file: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> UUID=17336e10-7adb-4750-afed-b14596146545 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 UUID=168678DD8678BEB5 / ntfs defaults 0 0 PARTUUID=61184e8a-02 / ntfs defaults 0 0

Using mount - not sure what you wanted. Ran sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt - runs with no output in terminal and no drives in Disks and only the Linux drive in Nemo. Why doesn't Gnome Disks show any disks?

[claudiux]

This is wrong! You can't have 3 different entries for the same mount point /. That causes the error message "Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'"

UUID=17336e10-7adb-4750-afed-b14596146545   /   ext4    defaults,noatime    0   1
UUID=168678DD8678BEB5   /   ntfs    defaults    0   0
PARTUUID=61184e8a-02    /   ntfs    defaults    0   0

Change these 3 lines for:

UUID=17336e10-7adb-4750-afed-b14596146545   /   ext4    defaults,noatime    0   1
# UUID=168678DD8678BEB5   /   ntfs    defaults    0   0
# PARTUUID=61184e8a-02    /   ntfs    defaults    0   0

then reboot your computer.

[Padre2]

I had added the 2nd and 3rd UUIDs, now removed - no change. Ran sudo pacman -Rns gnome-disk-utilities and then reinstalled - still not showing any drives.

[Padre2]

Assuming some corrupted files, but making no progress to find them after reinstalling many packages. Yesterday losing hope to fix the problem I ran sudo pacman -Syu and was surprised to find the full system upgrade download >3 GB! The largest I have ever seen, but why so large? I ran a full system upgrade on my new unfinished Arch install and it was 2.7 GB. Back to to old Arch installation, the upgrade was no problem to download, but on installing ended with error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) package: /path/to/file exists in filesystem /usr/....... Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. There were 95 'existing' files all related to Attica and attica. I manually prepended xxx to all the file names and with some trepidation ran sudo pacman -Syu again. This time it installed without any problem - amazing sight to watch. On rebooting everything seemed normal et voilà the internal external drives are showing in Nemo and Gnome Disks. My 4-year old Arch appears to be 100% again and I am much relieved. Many thanks for your advice along the way.