Get The Sound Working In Skype With Linux Mint 16 64bit

[Brahim Salem]

To fix the Skype no sound / distorted sound issue in Linux Mint 16, Get skype at [url]http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/[/url] then install pulse audio plugins in 32bit:

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sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386

If this does not solve your problem proceed with this:


1- run the following command:

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sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=.*/Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype %U/' /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

The command above replaces "skype" from the Skype desktop file with "env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype", this being a work-around for getting Skype to work with PulseAudio 4.0.


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2- Add skype icon to desktop (You can add icons to desktop by going to the menu, rightclick on skype then click on add to desktop ) , rightclick on it and go to "Properties" then replace

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skype U%

with

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env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype

in the command field.

So it looks like this: [url=http://postimg.org/image/6l9yrjhbh/][img]http://s30.postimg.org/6l9yrjhbh/Screenshot_from_2013_12_01_04_15_05.jpg[/img][/url]

Use the same command if you want to add skype to startup applications.

That's it guys

[Geoff_P]

Does this apply to LM 16 Cinnamon 32 bit as well?
Thanks

[Brahim Salem]

Does this apply to LM 16 Cinnamon 32 bit as well?
Thanks

This bug affects the 64bit only

[Geoff_P]

Thanks for the reply. I've got the same issue on 32bit version though.
Sound is either absent or very distorted.
It was fine on LM15.
Any ideas?

[ImpliedConsent]

Thanks for the reply. I've got the same issue on 32bit version though. Sound is either absent or very distorted. It was fine on LM15. Any ideas?

Ditto. Never had a 'incoming-ring' on LM14 32bit, but other sounds worked - now nothing on LM16 32bit.

[Brahim Salem]

Thanks for the reply. I've got the same issue on 32bit version though. Sound is either absent or very distorted. It was fine on LM15. Any ideas?

Ditto. Never had a 'incoming-ring' on LM14 32bit, but other sounds worked - now nothing on LM16 32bit.

Did you both try the above solution?

[Tioz]

Does this apply to LM 16 Cinnamon 32 bit as well?
Thanks

This bug affects the 64bit only

First time LM user here. Using new V16 on a second machine. Nice alternative to Ubuntu
G'day all The above command worked fine for me on 32 bit system.

I love these open source forums...they actually work!

[Geoff_P]

Did you both try the above solution?

Not yet, but I will today and report back later.

[Geoff_P]

Did you both try the above solution?

Not yet, but I will today and report back later.

Update: Yes I've just tried it and it worked!

Thankyou very much for your help.

[Noozy]

Thanks for the reply. I've got the same issue on 32bit version though. Sound is either absent or very distorted. It was fine on LM15. Any ideas?

Ditto. Never had a 'incoming-ring' on LM14 32bit, but other sounds worked - now nothing on LM16 32bit.

Did you both try the above solution?

Hi, I've had issues with Skype & LM16 on both 64 and 32 bit platforms.

x64 Details - Lenovo Z570 i7 with 8GB Ram and LM 16 Cinnamon. Instead of installing Skype from the repo I downloaded the multiarch deb from skype.com and it seems to fix the sound issue. This was only a couple of hours ago so I haven't really fully tested it in anger yet.

x32 Details - Lenove G550 with 4GB Ram and LM 16 Mate. I was having the same issue on this machine with Cinnamon so I decided to try Mate as I had no issues with LM15 Mate, but the same sound problems were there in LM16 Mate as there were with Cinnamon. I tried your solution and it seems to have worked. Once again no real comprehensive testing but now I have the Skype sign in "Whoosh" which I didn't have before and the test call seems to be working.

[djalf]

I can confirm that it is working on LM 16 x86.

[ImpliedConsent]

Ditto. Never had a 'incoming-ring' on LM14 32bit, but other sounds worked - now nothing on LM16 32bit.

Did you both try the above solution?

I have no idea why I typed the above. I musta got some bad stuff, 'cuz the sound is working - and has worked (as far as I can remember) since I installed Petra32. Disregard.

[GamesBond]

Regrettably, after trying the fix i have no sound at all in Skype under LM16 x64

Skype also crashes very frequently

[Jodelman]

To fix the Skype no sound / distorted sound issue in Linux Mint 16, run the following command:

Many thanks. Your fix worked beautifully on my Mint 16 64 bit system. I was getting very frustrated at Skype not working properly.

[Noozy]

Confirmed that the fix worked with 32bit LM16. Have tested it quite a lot now.

Also, seems to have fixed 64bit version as well, but I haven't tested it as much.

[Brahim Salem]

Updated the above tutorial

[hexabit]

Installing the "libasound2-plugins:i386" fixed sound LAG on my Linux Mate 16 amd64

The lag was like 30 sec after some event occurs.

THX for the help.

[klu9]

I already installed Skype via the Software Manager (and currently have the problem of extremely low mic volume). Do I need to uninstall existing Skype before trying this method?

Also the 1st step is "Get skype at http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/ ... -computer/ " but there are several versions listed there (under "Choose your distribution"), none of which is Linux Mint 16 64. Which version should I get?

[thomas2000]

I had the same problem. If you run 64 bit in the package manager you find only skype-i386
I installed skype-bin. problems were solved.
command: sudo apt-get install skype-bin

[Bob_VM]

Does this apply to LM 16 Cinnamon 32 bit as well?
Thanks

This bug affects the 64bit only

First time LM user here. Using new V16 on a second machine. Nice alternative to Ubuntu
G'day all The above command worked fine for me on 32 bit system.

I applied this to 32-bit but 30 msec was not quite enough, so I did 60 msec and it worked. The Skype phone ringing sounded a bit breaking up but the conversation was fine. I even got the cam going for the first time, but it quit after about 30 seconds.

For me just edit the skype file and put the clause in and that was it.