At last we reach the final installment of this series, the question & answer stage in which we'll consider some of the common problems encountered with audio and MIDI on Linux, along with some common ...

Many Firefox users on Linux were left without the ability to play sound in their browser after updating to Firefox 52, released last week. The issue at the heart of this problem is that Mozilla ...

Is it normal for linux to have horrible sync issues with sound? Generally what I see is sound laging behind motion, and fairly badly. Tuxracer, for instance, is completely borked this way on every box ...

Linux audio has a reputation for being confusing at best and downright broken at worst. Between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK, the experience has often depended on trial and error, along with a lot of ...

Audio systems in Linux are terrible. You’ve never known true pain until you’ve tried to set up a recording or broadcasting workstation running Linux. I did, twenty years ago, and nothing has changed ...

Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

Once upon a time (and it wasn't that long ago), if you wanted to do real, low-latency work with audio on Linux, you faced serious trouble. That's no longer true. PipeWire 1.0, an audio/video software ...

In my last installment of this series I introduced a variety of GUI-based tools that can help you discover more about your system to help identify potentially troublesome components. This week we'll ...