Skype is not using pulseaudio

After fresh installing 13.04 at my HP ProBook I can have sound only in one application at a time. When I use Skype, there's no sound in Clementine, SMPlayer, etc.

I tried to reinstall ALSA and PulseAudio like this:

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

But with no effect.

In Skype, I have only ALSA (hw:....), there's no 'PulseAudio' option.

Solution 1:

Are you running the 64bit version of Ubuntu?

Then try installing 32bit pulseaudio (linking issues cause this incompatibility):

sudo apt-get install libpulse0:i386

Its important to mention that you need to quit SKYPE and start it again after executing that command otherwise PulseAudio will not be available in the list of devices

Solution 2:

I had the same problem on my LinuxMint 64 bit Mate desktop. I had to:

• install package libpulse0:i386
• do one of these things:
  • Add PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 http://arunraghavan.net/2013/08/pulseaudio-4-0-and-skype/
  • Replace my skype:i386 (I don't know where it was from) with these 2: skype:amd64 skype-bin:i386 (actually it seems, that they added here PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 to .desktop files)