I run Mint as the OS on my main computer at home. For the most part it gives me no trouble, I can do everything I need to do on it far quicker and reliably than I ever could on a windows machine. Between growing Linux support for software natively and Wine I dont ever see a need to return to Windows.
However every once in a while I will get crazy distortion randomly popping up. I could be watching a YouTube video or playing a game and the sounds will become incredibly crackily and distorted. I finally found a fix though.
Open up a terminal session and just type pulseaudio -k
. That will kill the sound daemon. Restart it with pulseaudio --start
. After that your sound should return to normal.
Spot on! Thanks for the advice
Wow thanks for the advice. Works perfect.
This glitch is also described here. I asked in the linux mint chat and got forwarded to it. So maybe doing this is a permanent fix it wont even happen anymore.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Glitches,_skips_or_crackling
I’m new to Linux Mint and I have been running into the problem a lot – I’m not exactly sure how to resolve it long term, but the solution you’ve expressed here is a great help!
Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for your advice, it works brilliant on MX Linux as well 😉
I had a problem with audio recording and all ways (ffmpeg recording, audacity and ocenaudio, simplescreenrecorder and some others) were giving crackling in audio.
Restarting pulseaudio with -k and –start fixed it in seconds.
So, thank you again! 😉