• Outsider9042@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 hours ago

    Been around since OSS and ALSA was the new kid on the block. Yet to experience these supposed sound issues.

    • insufferableninja@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I 'member having to use a script to do software mixing of multiple audio streams in alsa, so I could listen to a music CD while playing WOW. Otherwise whichever thing started first would grab the audio device and the other thing couldn’t use it. This would’ve been back in like 2006-7.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      48 minutes ago

      Same, I have it running on several different laptops/desktops, it’s probably a certain piece of hardware.

      I’m sure it’s happening to people, just not everyone.

  • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
    48·
    3 hours ago

    okay here me out:

    Pipewire is one of the best pieces of software I used. It has a cool ass patchbay and unlike PulseAudio I’ve never had it crash on me. It is the best thing that happened to Linux audio

    I was blown away when I connected my phone to my PC through Bluetooth and phone audio started playing through my PC. It just worked without me touching anything

    I also really like how “Linux Studio Plugins” are standalone apps that you can run. I don’t produce music or anything but I still use stuff like equalizers and spectrum analyzers. It is insane how flexible the “each app has inputs and outputs you can hook together” architecture is.

    PulseAudio probably also had some of these features but I never used those because pulse would fall apart every time I touched it. Pipewire doesn’t

    Broken Linux audio is about to become old news

    • creed10@lemmy.world
      22·
      3 hours ago

      i don’t know about you but broken Linux audio has BEEN old news ever since i started using pipewire

  • HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip
    2·
    55 minutes ago

    Flashbacks to having pavucontrol open, editing default.pa and watching pulse crash over and over trying to get echo cancelling working

  • Schiffsmädchenjunge@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    3 hours ago

    Gotta be real here for a moment, the last time I had any sort of trouble with audio on Linux was back in the day when I was still fiddling about with Gentoo. But that was, what, fifteen, twenty years ago?

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        45 minutes ago

        I have a strange Dual Screen Asus on Intel with mobile arc. About 10% of the time, waking from sleep will crash the taskbar, something about the video driver not being ready yet.

        I just wrote a daemon to kick plasmashell in the ass if it notices the bar isn’t there.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
            4·
            51 minutes ago

            It’s ironic how, just like people make jokes of Linux audio even though it’s been stable for years, people stil joke about Windows throwing BSODs or requiring reinstalls non-stop, even though the last BSOD I had that wasn’t caused by faulty hardware or a weird one-of-a-kind driver issue was… 12 years ago? Something like that.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      41 minutes ago

      try disabling bluetooth power saving

      try libspa-bluetooth if pipewire

      force A2DB profile in pavucontrol or blueman

      make sure you have bluez and bluez-utils?

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 hours ago

        I have linux issues every time I have a “new” machine, and it makes sense. Linux is a volunteer/ opensource project. It isn’t getting chipsets before, and building drivers in advance of hardware releases (at least it mostly isn’t; I understand that some times it does).

        Because of that, the newer your harder, the crappier it works. The longer your hardware has been around, in-general, my experience is that Linux becomes an “it just works experience”.

        Also, fuck you mediatek 7925e.

        • bisby@lemmy.world
          9·
          3 hours ago

          I built a new 9950x3d + x870e system last year. trying to use the motherboard’s wifi would kernel panic things. couldnt turn bluetooth on and off. couldn’t control the RGB.

          Now, WiFi works great. Bluetooth works great. OpenRGB supports the RGB. Things are great. Took time to get here, but we got here.

            • bisby@lemmy.world
              5·
              2 hours ago

              The strong irony is that when high core count and asymmetrical multi-CCD chips started rolling out, they were having CCD pinning issues in windows. But since Linux has a scheduler that has been NUMA awareness for ages… Linux was actually just fine with these things.

              Linux was actually better for bleeding edge hardware for once.

    • B-TR3E@feddit.org
      22·
      3 hours ago

      That’s the best thing bluetooth audio can do for you. Much better than anything it does to music.

    • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      7 minutes ago

      Pro tip: putting the URL in the following character sequence will just show the image in your comment instead of the URL

      ![optional description for accessibility](url)

      cringe thumbs up illustration

  • sundaymidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    what is Pipeware? only install other thing, Linux is rich of alternatives (you don’t have to cry for convincing to MS/Apple)

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Just had a random occurance of pipewire not allowing me to switch my audio back to my headphones (played some music through speakers before) through the settings. Had to switch it using the terminal but then it worked. Took about 10 minutes to figure out

  • B-TR3E@feddit.org
    67·
    4 hours ago

    I’ve been using “Linux audio”, namely jack, Ardour, freewheeling, hydrogen e.a. for more than a decade. But you can take your shiny pipewire and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

    • Lung@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 hours ago

      Pipewire is awesome, I can’t believe they did it, they implemented all the old APIs for the other system and brought it into great harmony. But hey I’m a wayland user too

      • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
        291·
        3 hours ago

        A decade ago, all distributions switched to a new sound stack that is better by all metrics. He is saying he is old and knows the name of the old stuff, therefore new stuff bad

        • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          20·
          3 hours ago

          The pipewire switch happened far more recently than a decade ago, you may be thinking of pulseaudio, which had far more valid criticisms than pipewire does now.

        • B-TR3E@feddit.org
          127·
          3 hours ago

          You’re an idiot who doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Pipewire isn’t really up for production (and by far not a decade old) and whoever decided to activate it by default might have had easy desktop use and switching to BT or mobile audio trash in mind. If it comes to latency, low complexity or reliability, pipewire is terrible. It also doesn’t add anything useful that jack could not do, it only adds complexity where it’s not needed.
          PW is nice, if you’re a newbie and want all your crappy BT shit to connect from the desktop so you can watch five tik-tok vids at the same time using you shiny “soundbar” (and have your voice comm blasting the neighbourhood), but it’s a mess if you want to use realtime audio with more than two ports, MIDI and a device chain for recording or playback.

          Don’t matter replying, “Qwel”, I put you in my special place for trolling, abusive children who do not contibute to civilization - the killfile.