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Pulseaudio Profiles

Pulseaudio provides many profiles for audio devices.

The main device you're likely to have is Built-in Audio.

This device should have its profile set to Analog Stereo Duplex most of the time.

Assuming you have a laptop, the built-in microphone will be an analog microphone.

So you're choices are really:

  1. Analog Stereo Duplexy ever use Digital Stereo prof
  2. Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input

This allows your system to both use the microphone and output sound on either analog or digital ports.

The analog ports are the 3.5mm jacks.

You'll most likely have a headphone out, microphone in, line out and line in. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_and_video_interfaces_and_connectors

In most cases you'll only ever use Digital Stereo profiles in the case when you are connecting via USB or Bluetooth.

Make sure to use pavucontrol to set these up!

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