How to fix Pulseaudio and Skype crappy sound glitches, choppy sound and crackling on Debian GNU / Linux

Tuesday, 10th January 2012

I've experienced plenty of problems with Pulseaudio and Skype output sound hell crappy. This stupid proprietary program Skype is a total crap … Anyways again thanks to ArchLinux's wiki, I've used the two mentioned steps to fix all this Skype in / out problems …

1. Fix problems with Glitches, voice skips and crackling In file /etc/pulse/default.pa its necessery to substitute the line;

load-module module-udev-detect

with

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

2. Resolve Choppy sound in (Pulseaudio) -> Skype

In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf two lines has to be also substituted:

; default-sample-rate = 44100

Should become;

default-sample-rate = 48000

3. Change /etc/default/pulseaudio to allow dynamic module loading

It is a good idea to the default settings from DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=1 to DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0 .This step is not required and I'm not sure if it has some influence on solving sound in / out problems with Skype but I believe it can be helpful in some cases..

So in /etc/default/pulseaudio Substitute:

DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=1

to;

DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0

4. Restart PulseAudio server

After the line is changed and substituted a restart of PulseAudio is required. For PulseAudio server restart a gnome session logout is necessery. Just LogOff logged Gnome user and issue cmd:

debian:~# pkill pulseaudio

This will kill any left pulseaudio server previous instances.
 

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18 Responses to “How to fix Pulseaudio and Skype crappy sound glitches, choppy sound and crackling on Debian GNU / Linux”

  1. admin says:
    Epiphany 2.30.6 Epiphany 2.30.6 Debian GNU/Linux x64 Debian GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze (2.30.6-1) Epiphany/2.30.6

    One other thing, that is said to help to microphone have a reduction of noise is muting the Microphone boost using:
    $ alsamixer
    I’ve disabled it myself, but I’m not sure if mic input is better now. It could be helpful only tome sound cards.

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  2. johnson says:
    Firefox 15.0.1 Firefox 15.0.1 Ubuntu x64 Ubuntu x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1

    thanks! … it worked on Skype 4.0 on Linux Mint 13 (Ubuntu precise should work also)

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    • admin says:
      Opera 11.00 Opera 11.00 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
      Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00

      I’m glad it helped. Also problem seems to be solved on Xubuntu 12.04. I will be glad to hear if it works on other distros too.

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  3. asdf says:
    Google Chrome 22.0.1229.94 Google Chrome 22.0.1229.94 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4

    Thanks, worked!

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  4. GniKinG says:
    Google Chrome 25.0.1364.160 Google Chrome 25.0.1364.160 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22

    Worked for me in Fedora 17 but seems to cause problems with audio in flash (at least on videos in google chrome :s )

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  5. GniKinG says:
    Google Chrome 25.0.1364.160 Google Chrome 25.0.1364.160 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22

    Just the second option and everything is fine, if I do the the steps of the first option I have problems with flash videos

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  6. hvasek86 says:
    Firefox 3.5.3 Firefox 3.5.3 Windows XP Windows XP
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

    nice post.added to my bookmarks cheers!

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  7. Juan Timana says:
    Google Chrome 24.0.1312.70 Google Chrome 24.0.1312.70 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.70 Safari/537.17

    Thank you so much, this worked like a charm 😀

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  8. Francesco says:
    Firefox 23.0 Firefox 23.0 GNU/Linux GNU/Linux
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0

    Thanks! You're post helped me after the last update of pulseaudio on debian sid.

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  9. DoK_- says:
    Google Chrome 28.0.1500.95 Google Chrome 28.0.1500.95 Windows 7 x64 Edition Windows 7 x64 Edition
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36

    Hi, i tried this, it improved the skype audio greatly but i've lost the detection of my mic in pulseaudio since then :-/ , tried to switch all on alsa and got no sound , so i reinstalled pulseaudio but still no mic detected :-/

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    • admin says:
      IceWeasel 17.0.7 IceWeasel 17.0.7 GNU/Linux GNU/Linux
      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130626 Firefox/17.0 Iceweasel/17.0.7

      Hi check in my Skype section. There I have few articles on problems I experienced with Skype microphones. Also it strongly depends on Skype version you need for me 2.0.x Skype works good.

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  10. JRG says:
    Firefox 28.0 Firefox 28.0 Ubuntu Ubuntu
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0

    The note about killing the pulseaudio daemon (forcing it to restart) solved a different problem for me (Linux Mint Xfce on an older MacBook Pro).

    Thank you,

    John

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  11. KPatel says:
    IceWeasel 31.3.0 IceWeasel 31.3.0 GNU/Linux GNU/Linux
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.3.0

    Many thanks for the tip on removing the crackling audio output. The "tsched=0" addition was successful in fixing the sound on my Dell Vostro, with Debian Wheezy installed.

    Regards,

    K.Patel

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  12. BFord says:
    Firefox 35.0 Firefox 35.0 Ubuntu x64 Ubuntu x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0

    Many thanks

    A godsend you are.

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  13. marylou says:
    Firefox 37.0 Firefox 37.0 Ubuntu x64 Ubuntu x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0

    Thank you so much!! I had distortion issues with viber that drove me nuts but now its fixed!!

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  14. Alex says:
    Google Chrome 47.0.2526.106 Google Chrome 47.0.2526.106 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36

    Thanks for the instructions! fixed the annoying glitch with Viber notifications on Ubuntu.

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