[SoundCore mini, playback] No sound at all from Rhythmbox

[Albert Cardona]

After connecting via bluetooth the Soundcore Mini, I can get sound to play through it just fine from e.g. the Chromium browser, but not from Rhythmbox, which instead always plays from the laptop's internal speakrs.

In the bluetooth settings, Soundcore Mini is connected. In the sound settings, Soundcore Mini is selected, and the "Test" button opens an UI that lets me play test sounds, and it works. And indeed it works for e.g. Google Chrome for a youtube video. But Rhythmbox plays through the internal speakers no matter what. I've tried restarting Rhythmbox, removing the ~/.pulse_secure/pulse/ folder with settings and then running "pulseaudio -k", and then restarting Rhythmbox, to no avail.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-31.35-generic 5.4.34
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: albert 120462 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: albert 120462 F...m pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu May 28 22:00:38 2020
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-24 (1434 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: SoundCore mini
Symptom_DevicesInUse:
 Cannot stat file /proc/43906/fd/6: Permission denied
                      USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: albert 120462 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: albert 120462 F...m pulseaudio
Symptom_Type: No sound at all
Title: [SoundCore mini, playback] No sound at all
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-20 (8 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/18/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: N1FET40W (1.14 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 20FQCTO1WW
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0J40709 WIN
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: None
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN1FET40W(1.14):bd04/18/2016:svnLENOVO:pn20FQCTO1WW:pvrThinkPadX1Yoga1st:rvnLENOVO:rn20FQCTO1WW:rvrSDK0J40709WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Yoga 1st
dmi.product.name: 20FQCTO1WW
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_20FQ_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad X1 Yoga 1st
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Yoga 1st
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please try:

  cd ~/.config
  rm -rf pulse

and the log out and in again.

[Albert Cardona (albertcardona)]

Thank you very much, your suggestion solved the issue: rhythmbox can now play via bluetooth.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks. That would make it a duplicate of bug 1866194.