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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    The answer is PipeWire. It's a drop-in replacement for PulseAudio that works.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I think that's just branding. I use the pipewire / wireplumber stack for a while and have not noticed any big gains over vanilla pulse

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

    Seems like you had unusual luck with pulseaudio. I had so many problems with it, I was considering switching back to Windows for some tasks.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    FYI, Pulse and Pipewire are two different audio servers, not just branding.

    Pipewire should be more like JACK, but easier to use like PulseAudio. That was the whole point of it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I know, but Pipewire gets a lot of hype and I'm not sure how much of it is deserved.

    I also don't know where the "easier" part comes into play for the end-user. pavucontrol and pactl reveals as much to me under pipe as it did under pulse. I'm sure the I/O in the background is a lot cleaner, but I've not noticed anything in the foreground.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Those tools were made for pulseaudio, not pipewire, so it makes sense they worm the same. Don't they have pipewire-specific versions of these tools?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

    I'm not sure. I'm using the pipewire-pulse module on top of pipe, which provides the "drop-in replacement" of pulse, so it all seems to work with the old tools.

    You make me wonder now whether I should drop pipewire-pulse and see if I still have accessible sound