No sound on Wine programs

[daedalus46]

Hello, I've been having this issue for a while now. Even after updating Wine (8.6-1) on my Manjaro distro (Linux distro 6.1.29-1) I still don't get any sound, it doesn't even figure in my applications list in the sound control panel (xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, pavucontrol) while running a wine program. On my "winecfg" panel, the sound test (winealsa.drv) does work, though.

Any tips?

[jkfloris]

Is there a reason why you are using the Alsa driver in Wine instead of the default PulseAudio driver?
Do you have sound if you use the PulseaAudio driver?
You can change the audio driver to PulseAudio with winetricks:

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winetricks sound=pulse

[daedalus46]

Is there a reason why you are using the Alsa driver in Wine instead of the default PulseAudio driver?
Do you have sound if you use the PulseaAudio driver?
You can change the audio driver to PulseAudio with winetricks:

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winetricks sound=pulse

I've changed to see if it worked again, now I'm back to PulseAudio and there are no changes.

[jkfloris]

Which sound server do you use on your system? Only PulseAudio or with PipeWire?
You can find more information about your sound server with:

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pactl info
# and check the volume with
amixer

[daedalus46]

Which sound server do you use on your system? Only PulseAudio or with PipeWire?
You can find more information about your sound server with:

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pactl info
# and check the volume with
amixer

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 >pactl info 

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 637
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: manjaro
Host Name: Manjaro
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.70)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo.monitor

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 >amixer

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]

[jkfloris]

That looks normal. And the default output is not muted either.
Do you see alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo RUNNING in pactl?

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# Play some music with a Wine program and run while the sound plays:
pactl list short

# Sample output
...
xxx	alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo	PipeWire	s24le 2ch 48000Hz	RUNNING

If you are not sure if "alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo" is the right sound card, you can use pactl list cards to find more information about the available sound cards.

[invisible kid]

Just wanted to note that one symptom noted in the OP was that the application wasn't showing up in pavucontrol. I just did a test(but I am using different versions of almost everything) and I did confirm that with wine-7.14 (Staging), wine applications using audio will show up in pavucontrol, at least this solitaire application did. It was listed as:

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Masque Publishing Lobby: audio stream #1 on

I don't mean to confuse things, so please ignore if this doesn't help at all.

[daedalus46]

I installed AIMP, and sound does work. It still doesn't work on games for example.

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61	alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo	PipeWire	s32le 2ch 48000Hz	RUNNING
61	alsa_output.pci-0000_38_00.6.analog-stereo.monitor	PipeWire	s32le 2ch 48000Hz	IDLE

I'm not sure which card wine tries to use when I run games.

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>pactl list cards 
Card #59
	Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_38_00.6

Card #60
	Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_38_00.1

[daedalus46]

I should note that back when sound did work, it refused to work when I had other non-wine sound running in the background, I don't know how to disable that.

[invisible kid]

Ugh, sometimes pulse doesn't seem so trustworthy. I remember it giving me a headache trying to capture sound from a USB capture card. I had to kill the pulseaudio daemon and avoid running firefox so it wouldn't start it up while i was recording.

[jkfloris]

I'm not sure which card wine tries to use when I run games.

If you have the "Output device" set to (System default) in winecfg, then alsa_card.pci-0000_38_00.6 is used.

I installed AIMP, and sound does work. It still doesn't work on games for example.

Did you install the 32 or the 64 bit Windows version of AIMP?
If you installed the 64-bit version, you may be missing the 32-bit libraries (many games still use 32-bit).
Check if you have installed:
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-alsa-plugins
lib32-libpulse
lib32-pipewire

[daedalus46]

I'm not sure which card wine tries to use when I run games.

If you have the "Output device" set to (System default) in winecfg, then alsa_card.pci-0000_38_00.6 is used.

I installed AIMP, and sound does work. It still doesn't work on games for example.

Did you install the 32 or the 64 bit Windows version of AIMP?
If you installed the 64-bit version, you may be missing the 32-bit libraries (many games still use 32-bit).
Check if you have installed:
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-alsa-plugins
lib32-libpulse
lib32-pipewire

I was missing the following:
lib32-libpulse
lib32-pipewire

Thank you, you were very helpful, now sound works even with other sound running in the background. I don't how remember how did those got removed or if they were installed at all.