Ubuntu – 14.04 Google Chrome Audio Playback Issues

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So after about an hour trying to find a solution for this problem, I've had no luck.

The issue:

Audio playback in Google Chrome is way too fast/high pitched/choppy.

Steps I've taken to try and fix this:

Website used for the test between Firefox/Chrome: Google Music (music.google.com)

Tested other browsers (Firefox). Audio was fine.

Went to chrome://plugins. Disabled the Adobe Flash plugins one by one to test.
I have the following plugins installed:

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and the flash plugins:

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Neither of those worked. Additionally, disabled the VLC plugin to test. That did not work.

Uninstalled/reinstalled alsa and pulseaudio. That did not work.

Changed sample rate in pulseaudio to 48000. That did not work.

I'm really at a loss for what the issue is. Like I said, the audio in firefox is fine.

Any suggestions?

Best Answer

Things to try:

  1. check flashplayer in chrome-plugins
  2. delete ~/.config/google-chrome

  3. reinstall alsa and pulseaudio

    sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio indicator-sound
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio indicator-sound
sudo alsa force-reload

  4. kill pulseaudio (worked for me!)

    killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse*
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