Out of box experience on Raspberry Pi 3B v1.2 - no sound

[Andy2No]

I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B v1.2 starter kit and installed Raspbian from the included Noobs card. Yes, I'm aware that's deprecated, but there are still a lot of them out there.

The first thing I tried was Sonic Pi, which is pre-installed as v3.1.0. The first example I tried from the tutorial gave me no sound through the headphones socket, and apparently no relevant options to fix that.

This is how a lot of people would have experienced Sonic Pi for the first time.

Clearly, it's too late to fix that now, but I had to dig through closed issue threads to find an answer - it's outputting through the HDMI port. For some reason, it was assumed that people would be using that and not the headphones socket, and no one though to say so. Also, no option was provided to switch it, as far as I can tell.

Perhaps you could make that information easier to find, at least? Closing an issue thread is a fairly good way of stopping people easily finding the information that was revealed in it, unless they know to look through closed threads on github. I hope you at least leave discussion threads open, so people have a better chance of finding the answer, for example by googling.

[SunderB]

Hi @Andy2No,

As far as I'm aware the headphone socket is actually a mini-AV port, which needs an adapter to hook up to a TV. I don't know of a way to use it as a standard headphone jack.

In any case, the version of Sonic Pi that comes with Raspberry Pi OS is unfortunately of date. See this wiki page for information on how to get the latest version.

Hope this helps :)

[Andy2No]

I habitually connect the headphones socket of anything via a headphones amp. Other people would use it via powered speakers, I expect. It hadn't occurred to me that the sound would be coming from the HDMI port, and more to the point, only from the HDMI port, and I can see I'm not alone in that because I was able to find someone else complaining about the same thing - no sound, as we both saw it, and no apparent way to get sound. I see Pis being sold with Noobs cards all the time, on ebay. This is going to happen to other people, so there needs to be a simple way to find out the answer, without detective work or experience of digging for information buried in closed issue threads. That's the reason I started this discussion. Yes, I'm aware it's out of date, but for a lot of people, that Noobs card formed their first impression of Sonic Pi, and there will be more people to come, having the same experience.

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