Download in Brave with sound - the sound doesn't work anymore

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As soon as I start a download from an AI site, I get no sound anymore. Even after online conversion with download, I get no sound at all. Please fix this problem.

in the Brave Browser 1.85.118 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit) Chromium: 143.0.7499.169

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@sorazin

Please edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, in order to include:

  • Brave Browser version numbers
  • Operating System version numbers

Go to https://alter.systems and enter As soon as I start a download from an AI site, I get no sound anymore.

Alter.systems will probably try to guide you through a series of steps, in order to try and determine the cause of your issue. Please document what happens, and report back here.

Alter.systems is an AI site.

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So I asked the AI ​​and explained it in detail, and it only said that I have to change all the settings on my PC or in the Brave browser. But I had already copied all those settings and tried to configure them. Even though I knew all that without the AI, since I’m familiar with this stuff, the problem can only be with the browser itself. Everything was fine in the previous version, and now almost nothing works in the Brave browser.

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@sorazin

OK; but again → edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, in order to include:

  • Brave Browser version numbers
  • Operating System version numbers

Please create an additional Brave Browser user Profile for test purposes, and during that setup, do not add anything, do not import anything, no extensions added; the idea is to have a test Profile that you might say, is “stock” ← no frills, no Brave Rewards, no Brave bells, no whistles.

Exit / Quit everything and Restart your computer. When you start up Brave Browser, select this “test” Profile . . . and test your issue.

Also, Brave Community member @MasterLink has a lot of experience with the granular controls re audio (and graphics); so probably, if he gets some time, he may also be interested in your issue.

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I’m actually not familiar with this one. As far as I know, Brave doesn’t play sounds when a download finishes (I see no setting nor flags for it). When I watch the video, it seems to be able to play in-browser, but what’s actually happening is VLC won’t play the generated mp3. That’s the curious bit, why is VLC refusing to play the mp3?

So here’s what I’d ask and where I’d go with this one:

  1. If the mp3 plays elsewhere in a different media player, it might be VLC that’s conking out. (VLC let’s you select audio output devices, maybe it’s trying to hit one that used to exist but doesn’t, like a USB headset?) This one’s a total guess though.
  2. If the mp3 doesn’t play elsewhere, the mp3 might actually be malformed.

But most importantly, do you really have no sound at all after downloading? As in, after sound stops working, go fire up something else that plays sound, like a game, or anything else outside of Brave. Does it play sound? If so, then it’s likely the upper two points I made. If however even other apps really truly lost sound, then we might need to know what extensions are installed, some do tamper with audio streams and how downloads work (there’s one extension another user had which was creating subdirectories which isn’t a Brave thing either, “AIX Downloader” it was called. So it’s entirely possible an extension itself is what’s causing the sound engine to fail if that’s the case. I just don’t see how though, WASAPI is a bit hard to “crash” and Windows 10/11 have a fairly robust sound mixing engine.

(The only other thing you can do, is if you have a high end sound card like I do, never use a sampling rate above 192KHz in Windows itself, most software DO break the sound engine this way. Reserve such sampling rates for the DAW exclusively via ASIO or WASAPI in Exclusive mode, but I don’t want to get too ahead. Just trying to think ahead for myself in case I forget later.)

But honestly, other than what I stated, I’m not entirely sure. Brave itself when downloading never triggers a sound event, so it can’t be Brave doing it.

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I had this problem before, and it was fixed with a browser update. However, since then, I keep getting this problem, and nobody seems to be reading or caring about it. Anyway, this and another problem is that all sounds suddenly have artifacts when playing. Thank you so much for your support, help, tips, and for taking the time to read this.

I don’t have a graphics card at all, just an external sound card from Arturia Minifuse 1 Asio (old version card) (version number 7.5.09, which is set to the standard 44100Hz

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Slightly confused, but, you’re welcome.

None of what I asked was answered, so I’m unjoining from this discussion.