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Force downmix to mono on Linux

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Mar 15, 202615612 views
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For personal reasons (I'm hearing impaired) I need my linux machine to produce mono downmixed sound. Downmixed, not just single channel. Is there any possibility to force such behavior in ALSA / PulseAudio server? Hardware mixing (short-circuiting L and R channels with some resistors) is not possib…

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Fix for: Force downmix to mono on Linux

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I haven't done any extensive testing, but this file (or ) should work for anything that uses ALSA. Assumes that you only want to deal with two in-channels (left and right), and that your soundcard is at . Check out the official documentation for det…

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