So my ayylienware headset isn't very old at all (only a couple months) but it's already broken (and has been for quite awhile now) I just realized today (took me a long time to realize). It's only playing audio through the left headphone.
I only started noticing that it's playing only through the left headphone a couple days ago, and forgot to note the problem, so forgot about it because I keep eating too much cinnamon lately and overdosing as part of an occult ritual to empower Linux Mint OS & the Cinnamon DE development teams.
I have been wasting lots of time in Pulse and Alsa thinking it was a problem with Linux when today about 30 minutes ago I had the genius idea to unplug my ayylienware headset and try it in my Samsung Galaxy Tab S with Android. (I have lots of other computers as well with different OS to try it with too btw.)
This confirmed for me that there is in fact a problem with the headset. So I took my backup headset which I only ever used with my tablet and plugged it into my laptop. The sound quality is infinitely better and also louder, I am at 37% volume and everything is LOUD AND CLEAR, and I can adjust it very well to other volumes (you ever had that problem where you adjust the slider and it seems to not make much difference, it's just ON or OFF basically, instead of smooth adjustment in sound level? No problem here.). On the old ayylienware headset at top volume it wasn't very loud, a bit on the quiet side when maxed out.
This is REALLY SPOOKY btw but for whatever unknown reason with my ayylienware headset, any offline video or music player such as VLC, MPlayer, and Linux Mint's default movie player you can't hear shit. Only running a game like Minecraft or playing youtube videos through Firefox would produce any audio that could be heard at all. I don't understand why that is but reckon I should be concerned if maybe it's doing something potentially damaging to sound equipment>
**(Just an irrelevant aside but an Arabic sorcerer from UAE obsessed with me called up Goetic demons just like two weeks ago to make my ayylienware stuff fail, dat coincidence).
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