I feel this one. Used to daily drive Linux but due to a work requirement had to switch to Windows several years back. Windows has been getting shittier and shittier and I no longer need to use Windows for work and it only just gets shittier so I just switched to CachyOS and love it. Except the one and only issue I haven’t been able to fix is audio. I use a Bluetooth speaker on my computer and it cuts out randomly even using low bit rate audio streams. Tried switching pulseaudio to pipewire because the internet said I could increase the latency and that that would fix it but no dice.
Hm? Removed pulse, installed pipewire-pulse, ran pipewire && wireplumber && pipewire-pulse as user and everything just works. Except that my cheap bt-inear sometimes cause a crash of bluetoothd (and that one should restart by itself but whatever) but that’s not pipewire’s fault.
@MonkderVierte@tjhrulz
Hm? Removed pulse, installed pipewire-pulse, run pipewire && wireplumber && pipewire-pulse as user and got no available sound devices.Why? Because wireplumber’s bullshit crashed after forking to daemon somewhere in camera support code (but i do not have cameras!).
With reference pipewire-media-session everything worked, but everybody forcing unstable and bloaty wireplumber, making old configuration not supported…
Yes, maybe it’s not pipewire fault, just it’s modular architecture, but it makes me unhappy with it, so i still using jack. And i sure, there should be separate provider processes for camera and audio devices
I feel this one. Used to daily drive Linux but due to a work requirement had to switch to Windows several years back. Windows has been getting shittier and shittier and I no longer need to use Windows for work and it only just gets shittier so I just switched to CachyOS and love it. Except the one and only issue I haven’t been able to fix is audio. I use a Bluetooth speaker on my computer and it cuts out randomly even using low bit rate audio streams. Tried switching pulseaudio to pipewire because the internet said I could increase the latency and that that would fix it but no dice.
Some Mediatek chips are doing this, that is bt audio cutting out while WiFi doing things. Nothing fancy, 1080p video on YouTube will cause that.
Hm? Removed pulse, installed pipewire-pulse, ran
pipewire && wireplumber && pipewire-pulseas user and everything just works. Except that my cheap bt-inear sometimes cause a crash of bluetoothd (and that one should restart by itself but whatever) but that’s not pipewire’s fault.@MonkderVierte @tjhrulz
Hm? Removed pulse, installed pipewire-pulse, run pipewire && wireplumber && pipewire-pulse as user and got no available sound devices.Why? Because wireplumber’s bullshit crashed after forking to daemon somewhere in camera support code (but i do not have cameras!).
With reference pipewire-media-session everything worked, but everybody forcing unstable and bloaty wireplumber, making old configuration not supported…
Yes, maybe it’s not pipewire fault, just it’s modular architecture, but it makes me unhappy with it, so i still using jack. And i sure, there should be separate provider processes for camera and audio devices