How to cast Linux audio and microphone to Discord

How to cast Linux audio and microphone to Discord

The problem

Discord on Linux doesn’t have the option by defaul to play audio from you apps simultaneously with your microphone.

The solution

What we do is to create two virtual sinks, one for microphone and another for music.

pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=MicSink sink_properties=device.description=MicSink
pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=MusicSink sink_properties=device.description=MusicSink

Thats just two empty devices, let’s bring them to life. We want to play music in our output device (in my case it is called “TU106”)

pactl load-module module-loopback source="MusicSink.monitor" sink="TU106"

And we also want to send the same audio to the microphone sink, as it will go to Discord.

pactl load-module module-loopback source="MusicSink.monitor" sink="MicSink"

The final step is to send your physical microphone to the virtual microphone sink. (in my case mic called “NoiseTorch Mic…”)

pactl load-module module-loopback source="NoiseTorch Microphone for THRONMAX PULSE MICROPHONE" sink=MicSink

The final setup

Now, go to pulseaudio pavucontrol and in Playback select “MusicSink” for your music player, and in Recording select “MicSink” for Discord. One of the “loopback-…” devices must play in your physical output device, others go to MicSink.