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    System Volume Resets to 0, Using HDMI to TV for Audio

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    • abjA
      abj
      last edited by

      Try this to be sure that everything have the default settings:

      RetroPie-Setup > audio > Hdmi .
      and restart the EmulationStation.

      Press the start button, while you are in Emulationstation menu, the sound settings must be:

      Audio card : Default
      Audio Device: HDMI.

      `Please be patient, my English is not very good.`

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        Swordmaster4321 @abj
        last edited by

        @abj All the Emulationstation settings are set correctly, but whenever I go to RetroPie->Audio, it says the output is ALSA, no matter how many times I set it and restart ES. The volume still resets to 0 every time I exit and re-enter the ES menu though.

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        • abjA
          abj
          last edited by abj

          Do you have install the Desktop?

          Try to run the following commands and add here the output results:

          aplay -l
          amixer
          

          `Please be patient, my English is not very good.`

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            Swordmaster4321 @abj
            last edited by

            @abj Yes, I have installed the desktop.

            Here are the results:

            aplay - l:
            This command appears to have broken my terminal. It has been 20 minutes and there still isn't an output.

            amixer:

            Simple mixer control 'Master',0
              Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
              Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
              Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
              Mono:
              Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
              Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
            Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
              Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
              Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
              Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
              Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
              Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
            
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            • abjA
              abj @Swordmaster4321
              last edited by abj

              @Swordmaster4321

              Try to uninstall pulseaudio from here:

              RetroPie => RetroPie Setup => Configuration/Tools => rasbiantools => Choose option 3 ( remove some uneede... ) and restart.
              After that, make sure that you have the default settings that i post above.

              `Please be patient, my English is not very good.`

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @Swordmaster4321
                last edited by mitu

                @Swordmaster4321 said in System Volume Resets to 0, Using HDMI to TV for Audio:

                aplay - l:
                This command appears to have broken my terminal. It has been 20 minutes and there still isn't an output.

                There's no space between - and l (lowecase L). I think you've added a space and the command expects some input from you (which is not coming). You can usually end every terminal launched command by pressing Ctrl + C.

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                • abjA
                  abj
                  last edited by

                  Sorry, my bad i correct it.

                  `Please be patient, my English is not very good.`

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                    Swordmaster4321
                    last edited by

                    The audio is working now! Thank you! The last thing I'm wondering is why pulseaudio messes the whole thing up.

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                      Swordmaster4321
                      last edited by Swordmaster4321

                      And while we're here... is there a way to make scrolling between systems in the dashboard a lot smoother?

                      10fps isn't really cutting it for me lol

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @Swordmaster4321
                        last edited by mitu

                        @Swordmaster4321 said in System Volume Resets to 0, Using HDMI to TV for Audio:

                        And while we're here... is there a way to make scrolling between systems in the dashboard a lot smoother?

                        Don't run the system at 4k video resolution ? By default, 4k is diplayed at 30fps by the Pi4 unless you configure the HDMI output to run at 60fps with the hdmi_enable_4kp60 option (see here).

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                        • DarksaviorD
                          Darksavior @abj
                          last edited by Darksavior

                          @abj Thanks. This fixed the audio for me.
                          On my unsupported pi5 setup, switching to the Pegasus frontend killed the audio, and switching back to ES was not fixing it.

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