Help for Pulse Audio Issues

[bainkowalski]

Hello, I'm on 24.04 and I broke my input and output audio somehow trying to fix microphones issues, I'm getting not audio options what so ever now.

journalctl --user -xeu pulseaudio.service
░░The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 25 14:26:59 dailydriverkubuntu systemd[1540]: Failed to start pulseaudio.service - Sound Service.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░Defined-By: systemd
░░Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
░░
░░The job identifier is 939 and the job result is failed.
Aug 25 14:26:59 dailydriverkubuntu systemd[1540]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
░░ Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
░░Defined-By: systemd
░░Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░Automatic restarting of the unit UNIT has been scheduled, as the result for
░░the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Aug 25 14:26:59 dailydriverkubuntu systemd[1540]: pulseaudio.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 25 14:26:59 dailydriverkubuntu systemd[1540]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░Defined-By: systemd
░░Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 25 14:26:59 dailydriverkubuntu systemd[1540]: Failed to start pulseaudio.service - Sound Service.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░Defined-By: systemd
░░Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
░░
░░The job identifier is 964 and the job result is failed.


What should I do? I've tried removing and reinstalling.

systemctl --user list-units | egrep "pulse|wire"
● app-pulseaudio@autostart.service
loaded failed failed PulseAudio Sound System
● pulseaudio.service
loaded failed failed Sound Service
● pulseaudio.socket
loaded failed failed Sound System

[bainkowalski]

Well, I just Timeshifted back to yesterday before I broke it.

However; if anyone knowledgeable has any suggestions about noise reduction for Yeti Nano Microphone please help me. IDK any good software or anything possibly built into pulse. I dont want to go poking around anymore and breaking it again. Any suggestions with details will be super helpful!

[claydoh]

EasyEffects
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

Noisetorch
https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch

Haven't used these in a while now. Noisetorch was better at the time, for me. I stopped using it as I ended up getting a work headset with built in noise reduction/cancellation

[Virginio Miranda]

bainkowalski ,

Pulse audio is not the audio server for 24.04 kubuntu anymore. The audio server default is called pipewire. There are several daemons that communicate with programs that still dont use pipewire like, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-jack, pipewire-audio, pipewire-alsa and so on.

For example: in my 24.04 Kubuntu system, Pulse-audio is not installed for default and i dont even installed this. If a programs works only by pulse, pipewire-pulse are going to take the action. Dont try to remove pipewire because it make a part of the system and it will break the sound system.