RetroPie x86 - audio 'pop' when loading games
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Any one have a clue?
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@Panja I used to have my Retropie connected to a monitor with built in speakers, had the same issue. I turned down the Retropie volume a bit, helped a little. Switched to a different monitor, issue went away. Do you have another screen you could test it on? Check out this link, might provide a solution: https://dbader.org/blog/crackle-free-audio-on-the-raspberry-pi-with-mpd-and-pulseaudio Scroll down to read: Update: The problem seems to be fixed
EDIT - Please back up your system before trying anything from this page, just in case something goes wrong. Not sure if this works for x86 retropie. -
Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately that doesn't fix it for me.Also the problem is on multiple TV's.
I have 2 TV's and tested on both.It's not a show stopper, it's just annoying.
It's not really a cracking sound it's a (pretty loud) pop sound when the actual game loads. -
I don't know if it's related but I'm also seeing an error message when loading games:
lvl0: VolumeControl::init() - failed to find mixer elements!
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@Panja said in RetroPie x86 - audio 'pop' when loading games:
failed to find mixer elements!
Found a link here describing the same error. The user at the bottom of the topic found a solution that worked for them: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11256/failed-to-find-mixer-elements/6
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Thanks again!
Already set the Audio Device to PCM.
Though I did it through Sound Settings in ES menu.
After checking the file through SSH, it's indeed change to PCM.But without luck, problem remains.
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@Panja Is this Stretch or Jessie? My research seems to indicate this issue happened with Jessie, but was fixed with Stretch.
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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.2 (Bionic Beaver), not running Debian or Rasbian.
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@Panja Apologies my friend, I've gotta tap out. Beyond my level of knowledge. Hopefully one of the smarter people on this board chime in.
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No worries man. Thanks for trying! Appreciated.
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I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.2 and a fresh install of RetroPie.
With this new installation I have found the problem (bug?)!When I disable navigation sounds in sounds settings (EmulationStation) the problem returns. When loading a game and the game starts: POP!
When I enable navigation sounds in sounds settings (EmulationStation) the problem is gone!To be honest it's a but frustrating because I do not like the navigation sounds in my ES Theme but it's good that I found the problem...
[update]
Fixed it by creating a silent WAV file and replaced the navigation sound files in:
/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/art
There are 2 WAV files in there which I replaced. Probably only one was the culprit for me but I changed them both. -
Had originally replied over on the 18.04.1 thread which you posted on, but will reply here - glad to see you have a workaround for it.
I (think) my navigation sounds are turned on, need to check - also the theme I use (Chicuelo) doesn't have any wav files or scrolling sounds though, so I don't think i've ever played around with that setting. I don't get any pop or ALSA errors.
Do you still get ALSA related errors with the navigation sounds turned on? Or does that only appear when the option is turned off?
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Sorry, been away from the keyboard for a few days.
Thanks for your replies!
I re-installed and I do not have any errors anymore.
Though I still have the POP sound when launching a game.
But fixed (workarounded) with a silent WAV file. -
@Panja said in RetroPie x86 - audio 'pop' when loading games:
Sorry, been away from the keyboard for a few days.
Thanks for your replies!
I re-installed and I do not have any errors anymore.
Though I still have the POP sound when launching a game.
But fixed (workarounded) with a silent WAV file.Well i switched to Kubuntu 19.04 at work this morning and came across your issue and since i remembered this post thought it would be nice to list my fix.
So the issue seems to be that after a few seconds of silence it would put the audio chip in sleep mode causing a pop whenever any audio file was being played afterwords...drove me nuts for the first few minutes setting up this thing and hearing a pop with every ding noise!
I came across this when googling it: Pop noise
If it goes down do the following:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.confand at the very bottom add the following line:
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=NThen probably reboot.
I hadn't been able to reproduce this before because my main machine is AMD and this problem is Intel specific.
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Thanks for helping out mate, appreciated!
Will have a go with this in a few days and let you know.
Cheers.
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