What do you mean when you say "the audio fade in"?
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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After a few seconds of no sound playing when it starts again it does a fade in starting quiet and getting louder in a span of one second or second and a half.
Aside of being annoying, that part is less important, it has the problem of muting all notification sounds that are too short.
I've read that is something about power savings.
What are you playing sound through?
I've had the same issue. Doesn't matter what you play the audio from (system notification, video in Firefox, ...) I also have that problem in windows so I'm suspecting a bios setting but I can't find anything and any online search returns only results about "audio not working at all"
It's not a BIOS setting, it's the audio driver. I had that happen on a laptop years ago and it was a stupid setting in the "Enhancements" tab of the driver.
I'm talking the legacy grey box menu, NOT the modern windows UI. I remember not finding it there
If you don't know how to manually get to it, just type "mmsys.cpl" in the start menu and hit enter.
No, I've disabled all kind of "enhancements" and it's still there. Also, the problem is present on both my personal although barely used Windows, my work Windows and my everyday Linux Mint. 2 different systems, 2 different OS, the only common thing is the fact that it's a realtek chip.
And why it just started now after a fresh install? I didn't have this problem a week ago when I was using windows, and I don't remember having this issue two years ago when I was using Mint.
Probably an updated/different driver that came pre-loaded in the new installer.
What do you mean? Like the speakers? I have the line out connected to an amplifier. But that hasn't changed in years. This fade in problem started now after a fresh install.
too stupid to think but can you buy a new similar audio driver
What do you exactly mean by audio driver?
not sure...like i said i am stupid and i thought their might be a audio component driver like the gpu diver but i guess it does not exist but i got a better idea,read this (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php)
ok it looks like you won't read the manual so i am gonna spell it out for you:
Sound issues
Linux Mint moved to a new sound server called Pipewire.
To check which sound server is running, use the following command:
inxi -A
If you're unable to get the sound working, you can try to go back to the older sound server called PulseAudio.
apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin systemctl enable --user pulseaudio sudo reboot
Upstream bug report for choppy sound over HDMI: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025453
sorry for not being helpful before