Stereo To Mono How?

[LinuxPersuasive]

When i try to find from google i keep getting those nano errors cannot find file or directory chatgpt part will say type command pulseaudio it says pulseaudio command not found
how do I change from stereo to mono?

_{Mod edit:
I’ve changed the question to make it not seem like a personal rant.}

[Mirdarthos]

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To start, I’m going to ask/tell you to please stay way from ChatGPT regarding Linux. It had led many a person astray.

Further, as far as I’m aware, Manjaro doesn’t use PulseAudio, but Pipewire.

[Aragorn]

Welcome to the forum!

@LinuxPersuasive

When i try to find from google i keep getting those nano errors cannot find file or directory chatgpt part will say type command pulseaudio it says pulseaudio command not found

There is no such command. pulseaudio is a sound server, although depending on what image you installed the system from, you may be using pipewire instead — they don’t work well together.

If in doubt, why not consult the actual documentation, eh?

• PulseAudio - ArchWiki
• PipeWire - ArchWiki

@LinuxPersuasive

why the hell is this so hard to stereo to mono?

Because you didn’t look, and you think you’re still on Microsoft Windows.

[LinuxPersuasive]

man i researched the archwiki pipewire, no mentions of mono

[Mirdarthos]

Might be unneccesary

See:

https://askubuntu.com/a/1441611

…except the installation command would be:

pamac install easyeffects

More importantly, see:

Permanently enable mono audio (Pipewire)

I saw mono can be set as output … ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/mono-playback.conf context.modules = [ { name = libpipewire-module-loopback args = { node.description = "Mono Playback Device" capture.props = { node.name = "mono_output" media.class = "Audio/Sink" audio.position = [ MONO ] } playback.props = { node.name = "playback.mono_output" …

[Aragorn]

Man, I bet you didn’t research [HowTo] Request support and Forum Rules - Manjaro then…

@maycne.sonahoz

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[LinuxPersuasive]

i already did the permanently enable mono audio post. But nano keeps complaining. File or directory not exist, kate also does that.

[Mirdarthos]

Then create the directory and file:

mkdir -p ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d

touch ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/mono-playback.conf

And go from there…

[andreas85]

@LinuxPersuasive

File or directory not exist,

Then may be you made an error, because the file does not exist.

You have to reread the “permanently enable mono audio post” carefully. (whatever this is)

[soundofthunder]

@LinuxPersuasive

i already did the permanently enable mono audio post. But nano keeps complaining. File or directory not exist, kate also does that.

1. Please provide System Information

inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width

2. Please show us the exact command(s) you are using.

[nikgnomic]

@Mirdarthos

Manjaro doesn’t use PulseAudio, but Pipewire.

Manjaro provides manjaro-pulse and manjaro-pipewire so user can choose either software audio server

@Aragorn

it says pulseaudio command not found

There is no such command. pulseaudio is a sound server

why not consult the actual documentation, eh?

There is such a command - pulseaudio — Arch manual pages but it is not needed to remap a PulseAudio sink to mono
Method to force mono audio? - #2 by nikgnomic
Permanently enable mono audio output - #4 by nikgnomic
PulseAudio/Examples/Remap stereo to mono - ArchWiki

@Aragorn

you may be using pipewire instead

That is probably correct if pulseaudio is not found

pipewire-pulse can use PulseAudio module-remap-sink to remap audio channels to mono

pactl load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=mono master=NAME_OF_AUDIO_SINK  channels=2 channel_map=mono,mono

Or install easyeffects and set Stereo Tool plugin to ‘Mono Sum L+R’

AskUbuntu - How can I downmix stereo audio output to mono in PipeWire

For pipewire-jack (“pro-audio” profile) audio channels can be remapped manually in patchbay GUI (qpwgraph, helvum etc)

@LinuxPersuasive

i researched the archwiki pipewire, no mentions of mono

Archwiki does not have such information for PipeWire

[LinuxPersuasive]

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